Celebrities Who Starred in Horror Movies Before Making It Big

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It's Halloween week, so let's talk scary movies. It might surprise you that some celebrities starred in a horror movie before making it big.

You probably already know about Jamie Lee Curtis in "Halloween", Johnny Depp in "A Nightmare on Elm Street", and Kevin Bacon in "Friday the 13th", so here are 10 others:

1. Demi Moore: "Parasite" (1982)

2. Charlize Theron: "Children of the Corn 3: Urban Harvest" (1995)

3. Drew Barrymore: "Firestarter" (1984)

4. George Clooney: "Return to Horror High" (1987) (He was also in "Return of the Killer Tomatoes" in '88, if you can call that horror.)

5. Jenna Ortega: "Insidious: Chapter 2" (2013)

6. Jennifer Aniston: "Leprechaun" (1993)

7. John Travolta: "Carrie" (1976)

8. Ryan Gosling: "Frankenstein and Me" (1996)

9. Jon Stewart: "The Faculty" (1998)

10. Anya Taylor-Joy: "The Witch" (2015) (Since then she's also done "Last Night in Soho" and "The Menu".)

(You can see more at EW.com.)

Lee Callahan

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