Johnny Deep in Nightmare on Elm Street
It's ironic to note how often critics speak ill of a genre that often gives the actors the opportunity to emerge : the Horror
The future Villain for Tarantino
The genre often falls into the low budget, especially compared to classic productions, so emerging actors often make parts in the genre where higher-sounding names are not manageable with the reduced budgets of the Horror genre.
Any names? Just not to fall into the generic, or talk about actors who are then known only to lovers of the genre? And anyway every great actor has had his own role in the genre, more or less noble than horror.
- Leonardo di Caprio before being the star of MrGraves and Titanic fights space hamsters in Critters 3 1991
- Kate winslet, before boarding the Titanic to play Rose, had been one of the muses of Peter Jackson's fantahorror Heavenly creature in 1994
- Johnny Deep before being the fetish of Tim Burton and Jack Sparrow was one of Freddy Krueger's first victims in 1984's Nightmare on Elm street
- Winona Ryder owes her launch to Tim Burton's horror comedy BeetleJuice
- Scarlett Johansson before becoming the Black Widow was a teenager in the 2002 genre movie Arac Attack
- Julianne Moore before she was the hunter of Hannibal Lecter was Susan in The tales from the Darkside (1990), the dark Lady Connie Stone in the supernatural NoirCast a Deadly Spell (1991), often returning to the genre as in the 2013 remake of Carrie,
- Liam Neeson before being consecrated to the general public with Schindlers' List was Dr Peyton WestLake, Sam Raimi Darkman's 1990 horror superhero Darkman, and even earlier, in 1988, in the fantasy horror comedy High Spirits with Peter O'Toole and Daryl Hannah
- Clint Eastwood debuted in 1955 Revenge of the Monster and in the same year also in the film Tarantulaboth by Jack Arnold
- Angelina Voight Jolie debuts in 1993 fantahorror Cyborg 2 glass shadow
- Brad Pitt debuts at a very young age, but his star begins to shine with Interview with the Vampire in 1994 with Tom Cruise
- Tom Cruise was already known to the general public with risky business, but the leap in quality does so directed by Ridley Scott in Legend
- Our Zingaretti debuts in an Italian American horror production Castle freak.
- Tim Curry, histrionic, versatile artist has gone through every genre and character, but for most remains Dr Frank-o-furter of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Charlize Theron, now recognized as a great actress after the Monster Oscar and her performance in MadMax Fury Road, made her debut in The Children of the Corn III
- Robert De niro, though not at the beginning of his career, did not disdain the interpretation of Frankestein's monster, as opposed to the doctor, played by Kenneth Branagh in the film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- John Travolta took his first steps on the set of Brian de Palma's Carrie before Saturday night's fever
- The great Jack Nicholson, started in 1960 in the Little Shop of Horrors, to be directed by Kubrik in 1980 in Shining, until he became a Werewolf in 1994 in Wolf
- Mila Kunis tackles in 1995 in piranha to make her way in the ocean of cinema
- Kevin Bacon has the honor of being one of Jason's first victims in 1980 on Friday the 13th
- Jamie Lee Curtis is one of the first women to revolutionize victim/assassin game on John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween
- George Clooney was very young when he appeared in the horror comedy Return of The Killer Tomatoes in 1988
- Tom Hanks debuts in 1980 in he know you are alone
- Demi Moore, before ghost was in the fantasy horror trash of 1980 Parasite
- Sam Elliot start his career in 1972 Frogs
- Jennifer Aniston in 1993 is scared to death by Leprechaun before she was even Rachel from Friends
- Sharon Stone in 1981 is brought to prominence by Wes Craven in Deadly Blessing
In short, this little roundup to remember how horror cinema has always been prolific of actors, directors, etc but often remembered for other interpretations… after all already at the birth of cinema you can count a lot of horror, in 1890 …