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

Matthew McConaughey

In Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995), Renée Zellweger wasn't the only rising star. McConaughey had already dived into Hollywood headfirst with Dazed and Confused two years earlier, but his acting chops were cemented with the unsettling role of Vilmer Slaughter in this sequel to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Although McConaughey deviated from the genre to become a '90s and early '00s heartthrob, his roots will never be forgotten.

Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams broke into the scene with a relatively small role in Species, a 1995 sci-fi horror film that follows a motley crew of scientists and government agents on a mission to track down Sil, an alien-human hybrid, before she mates with a human male. Williams plays a younger version of Sil in the film. Only a few years later, Williams took on a larger part in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) alongside none other than Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.