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27.08.11 # Top Ten # 22 Comments
Today I’m looking at the top 10 famous actors who were killed off in a horror movie before they were well known. You know, the death scenes you stumble across and go “Oh yeah, they got mangled in that film and I totally forgot about it”, or “Did I just see Kevin Bacon take an arrow-head through the throat?!”
It seems apart from appearing nude / playing gay characters / and or both, being fodder in horror films is a good way to build your CV and get noticed when you are still a fledgling actor. So let’s investigate.
10. Kristin Davis in Doom Asylum (1987)
Does this cover art remind anyone else of the poster for Clue?
Okay, so already we got off to a bad start. I trawled the internet and for the life of me could not find a video of Sex And The City’s Kristin Davis’ death scene in this schlocky b-movie horror – although recently it came on TV in a clips show. Suffice to say, Kristin’s character meets a grizzly death at the hands of the “The Surgeon” – who is this mutated butcher/lawyer (don’t ask) – when he applies a mini-circular saw to her face.
Well, to make up for lack of video, above Kristin shows off a very lovely bikini-wax in this spandex blue one-piece swimsuit – which she wears throughout the entire film apparently.
9. Kelly Hu in Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
A young and innocent Kelly Hu (21) appears in the installment of Friday the 13th in which Jason takes Manhattan. And by ‘takes’ we mean machetes a dozen of its 1.6 million residents. Unfortunately Kelly Hu is removed with relative ease. There’s none of the kung-fu badass skills she so frequently displayed during Sammo Hung’s Martial Law, no adamantium fingernail slashing from X2 to offer protection and no sorcery exuding from her sexy arab costume in The Scorpion King. Nothing. And yes, I did just name the most likeliest places you’ve seen Kelly Hu before just in case you asked yourself “Kelly Who?”. Oh well.
8. Owen Wilson in Anaconda (1997) + The Haunting (1999)
Owen Wilson got killed off in two horror movies in the space of two years. Once by a snake and once by a haunted house. He’s one of the first to go in Anaconda. The death is pretty much presented as, the other characters are on the boat in the background saying “Where is Owen Wilson’s character?” and then in the foreground we see a boa-constricted Wilson being dragged under the water. Not gruesome but an admirable way to exit any movie. In The Haunting – which sees Oscar nominees Catherine Zeta-Jones and Liam Neeson being scared in a house by cgi run amok – Wilson has his head bitten clean off by a stone lion. He makes no attempt to get out of the way, and doesn’t bleed. (Ignore the song):
7. Sarah Michelle Gellar in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) + Scream 2 (1997)
It’s 1997 and Buffy The Vampire Slayer has just hit TV screens, introducing the former Burger King poster-child to an audience that would grow exponentially thanks to large-foreheaded-ginger-mastermind Joss Whedon. Ms. Gellar appeared in two revival slasher films that year, both written by Kevin Williamson – and in both runs up a building and falls out a window.
6. Katherine Heigl in Valentine (2001)
Katherine Heigl plays a brunette pre-med student (possibly before graduating to Grey’s Anatomy) who after a bad date is stalked by a cherub-mask-wearing psycho. In danger, she hides in a body bag, which is the same as a Christmas turkey hiding itself in an oven. Today, the sequence can be watched with a different interpretation – with the stalker as a Terminator-type figure sent back in time to stop her embarking on her post-Knocked Up career.
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No John Goodman in C.H.U.D.??
Slasher Films feature loads of before they were famous deaths and survivors.
Mickey Rourke. Fade to Black
Daryl Hannah. The final Terror
David Copperfield Terror Train
Kevin Costner Shadows Run Black.
Viggo Mortensen; Leatherface’
Tom Hanks. He Knows You’re Alone.
Tanya Roberts. Tourist Trap
Jennifer Jason Leigh. Eyes of a Stranger.
Christopher Lloyd. Schzoid
Brad Pitt. Cutting Class
George Clooney Return to Horror High
Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter. The Burning.
Nice. Which were kills and which were survivors?
Mickey Rourke, dies
Hannah, survives, only just
Copperfield, dies
Alexander, dies
Hanks, survives
Clooney, dies
Pitt, survives
Lloyd, not sure
Costner, survives
Mortensen, dies or seems to, but he’s the villain
Hunter, is only glimpsed but survives
JJ Leigh, survives
Also James McAvoy and Isla Fisher die in The Pool.
Bill Paxton is the killer in Mortuary and is killed in the great Crazies variant Impulse, much better than either version of the Crazies. It also features Meg Tilly who survives it and Entity Force aka one Dark Night, a sort supernatural slasher variant.
Here are some more off the top of my head.
Paris Hilton: Nine Lives, dies (yah!)
Sam Rockwell: Clownhouse, lives
Mark Ruffalo: Mirror Mirror 2, dies
Willam Dufoe: The Hunger, lives
Also Death Wish has a young Jeff Goldblum in it, and he dies. More thriller than horror
RE: Jeff Goldblum in Deathwish. I know he was one of the kilers of Bronson’s wife but was he actually killed in the movie?
Goldblum doesn’t get killed in DW, his character only serves as the catalyst to Paul Kersey’s vigilante tendencies.
Plus James McAvoy in The Pool (dies) and Kiera Knightly inThe Hole (dies)
Some incredibly obscure horror movies there (Shadows Run Black, Mirror Mirror 2, The Final Terror) – I’m impressed.
The Final Terror shouldn’t be as obscure as it is.
It was directed by Andrew Davis of the Fugitive and Under Siege
fame. It’s also a pretty slick film that seems to predict Predator. The basic set-up features a camouflaged killer, an oddly military-like mix trainee Park Rangers and campers. Plus as well as Daryl Hannah it stars Rachel Ward. The ending is remarkably similar Predator’s. It was released in 1983!
Before The Matrix and even before Cowboy Curtis, Lawrence Fishburne was in Nightmare on Elm Street 3
L. Fishburne also buys the farm in Death Wish II.
Jack Black in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (gets killed) and (if you count it as a Horror movie) in Mars Attacks!
Danny Trejo in The Hidden (1987)
right! i remember all of those “oh wow” the hidden that was a good flick!and the guy who was the alien hero went on and played
“krull” btw is a somewhat strange sci-fi flick as well
but the elmstreet series had a lot of potential actors signing up for exposure on the freddy movies,well we all have to start
somewhere to get your foot in the door? with decaprio on “growing pains”…who knew! lol!
Jim Carrey, not really horror, I guess more comedy, but Once Bitten!
Leonardo Dicaprio in Critters 3.
John Travolta The Devils Rain.
I know I will think of more but there is a few.
Drew Barrymore Firestarter!
John Travolta in Carrie also.
Definitely not a horror but a slasher influenced thriller
Jim Carey basically playing Axl Rose is killed in The Dead Pool and the rest of Guns “n” Roses are in it before they were famous.
The death scenes in these movies lack the shock value. Do create the suspense though.
Daryl Hannah in the 1978 Brian De Palma film The Fury.
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