Hollywood A-Listers Who Got Their Big Break in Horror Films

Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields' film debut in Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) helped cement the low-budget film as a contemporary classic of the slasher subgenre. The slasher film features Shields as the "favorite daughter" who is viciously murdered by a masked killer. In the years since its release, Alice, Sweet Alice has amassed quite a cult following. During her audition, Shields had to mime as though she was being strangled to death.

The More You Know

Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
Arnold Schwarzenegger practiced with guns every day for a month to prepare for The Terminator.
In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
That slightly scandalous charcoal drawing of a topless Kate Winslet in Titanic was drawn by none other than the director himself, James Cameron.

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