Actors and actresses who started their careers in horror movies

Kevin Bacon on Friday the 13th

The 1980 movie still causes nightmares. After this came 12 more. It was one of the earliest roles for Kevin Bacon who was 22 when it was shot.

Jennifer Aniston in The Night of the Elf

Jennifer shot this cult horror movie in 1993, just before starting Friends.

A Nightmare on Elm Street with Johnny Depp

And this 1984 film did cause nightmares and continues to cause them. It was in the first of the saga and where we could see a very young Johnny Depp debut, dying at the hands of Freddy Krueger.

Mischa Barton in The Sixth Sense

Who does not remember that chilling and tender scene where a ghost girl asks a very young Haley Joel Osment for help?

Renee Zellweger in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Renée did not appear in the first installment, but in "the new generation", where she made her debut and did so two years before her famous movie Jerry Maguire along with Tom Cruise.

Leonardo Dicaprio Critters 3

It was the year 1991 and Leo was a child with a small role in his first film Critters 3.

Katherine Heigl was Bride of Chucky

Katherine Heigl was The Bride of Chucky

The film, which will not go down in history and shot in 1998, allowed us to see a young Katherine before becoming famous with her role in the series Grey's Anatomy.

Keira Knightley in The Hole. The deep

Four teenagers, students from an exclusive school, hide in an abandoned bomb shelter to avoid an excursion and are trapped… With this intriguing argument we met Keira in 2001.

Hilary Swank in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

What was worse? The look? earrings? Or that in that chapter where she debuted she tried to betray the protagonist?

Brad Pitt in Cutting Class

This 1989 horror film, directed by Rospo Pallenberg, was Brad Pitt's first major role. Did you imagine it like that?

Julia Roberts in Deadly Line

Released in 1990, it was Julia Roberts' first major role after Pretty Woman. There she met Sutherland, whom she almost married in real life. And it is that the 90, was a very tumultuous decade in couple relationships.

Manuela Velasco in Rec

It was the year 2007 and we were glued to the cinema seat in the middle of the zombie holucaust. In the midst of panic, we were able to appreciate the excellent work of a beautiful Manuela Velasco. In this film she made her debut and received the Goya for best new actress.

Chloë Moretz in The Abode of Fear

A 2005 remake of the 1979 film Horror in Amityville, based on the novel Horror in Amityville by Jay Ansony. There we saw Chloë for the first time when she was 8 years old.

Scarlett Johansson in Arac Attack

Mutant spiders terrorizing a young Scarlett in 2002. A true delight for lovers of the genre …

Mila Kunis in American Psycho 2

Connoisseurs say it is one of the worst sequels of all time. What's more, they say that in a projection many moviegoers abandoned it in scene 1. A bad eating for Mila Kunis from which she was able to recover.

What better way to spend Halloween than watching a scary movie and eating sweets? If you don't know which one to choose, take a look at our image gallery again. We have selected true gems of horror movies, as well as authentic clunkers that should never have been shot. The common nexus? The actors who appear in them, in small roles, became stars years later.

We all have a past

But unlike mere mortals, mega stars cannot hide it. If not, do you think Jennifer Aniston would let those frames prior to her aesthetic operations come to light? That era was great, but sometimes excessive. If not, remember everything that happened in the '90s … there are real pearls!

We also remember the charming dimples of the boy / cherub Leonardo DiCaprio in Critters 3 or the eyes to lose themselves in them of the also girl, Chloë Moretz. And who does not remember that chilling and tender scene where a ghost girl asks a very young Haley Joel Osment for help in The Sixth Sense ?

Also not to be missed in our gallery are Renee Zellweger in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street . Did you remember they appeared in these classic movies? Wow! And we are still hallucinating to learn that Katherine Heigl was the very Bride of Chucky in 1998 and that Hilary Swank made her first steps in the series that marked a whole generation of adolescents, Buffy the Vampire Slayer .

And finally, a bit of Spanish cinema. In 2007 REC was premiered with Manuela Velasco –remember that it was the cover of Clara Magazine in January– and even today, we continue to shout like the first day every time we see this movie.

Who was going to tell these actors and actresses that, years later, they would succeed in Hollywood? Do not miss our gallery!