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Tom Hanks has been consistently working ever since he made his big-screen debut in the low-budget slasher film He Knows You're Alone in 1979. He has over 80 movies, cutting across nearly every genre, but, for the longest time, he seemed to avoid Westerns. All that changed in 2020 when he starred in News of the World, directed by Paul Greengrass. We bet Hanks only took the call because Greengrass was involved. Captain Phillips, the previous team-up between the two Hollywood heavyweights, had yielded great results, prompting the desire for a reunion.

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News of the WorldPG-13WesternAdventureDramaActionRelease DateDecember 25, 2020Runtime118 minutesDirectorPaul GreengrassCastSee All

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For Greengrass, this was also new territory. He had never made...

Most people with a cursory knowledge of Hollywood history have a general understanding that the movie stars of today were the unknown (or barely-knowns) of yesterday, and that most actors get their start in projects that are either barely seen or exist at some level of disrepute. It's a bit of camp fun to check out some of these unlikely early works and see future A-list talent turn up in B-movies: Tom Hanks in "He Knows You're Alone," for instance, or Meg Ryan in "Amityville 3-D," or Denzel Washington in "Carbon Copy." Then there's the flip side of this phenomenon, where a future star gets a big, juicy role in a prestige picture made by an established director, like Dev Patel in "Slumdog Millionaire," or Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit."

There is also, however, a happy medium to these two extremes: a film made by a Hollywood legend which debuts...

The horror genre has not been universally held in high regard since its inception, often seen as sensational and problematic, sparking the ire of religious and political groups. This attitude toward the genre has softened to become more socially acceptable with time, but many big-name Hollywood actors have seemingly avoided participating in it throughout their careers. Or they, in the case of Brad Pitt (Cutting Class) and Tom Hanks (He Knows You're Alone), have made their major debut in the genre but quickly moved away from it. These early performances offer a fascinating glimpse at the actors in a genre they are not known for, and some are quite good. However, Kevin Costner managed to star in one embarrassingly bad horror film he would rather forget.

Trying to take a note from erotic thrillers and the black glove-wearing killers of Italian Giallo, 1984's Shadows Run Black was Costner's sixth film,...

The cultural standing of horror movies has changed over the years, though it remains one of the most controversial genres. During the 1970s, when gory slashers first burst on the scene, many saw the genre as pure schlock, or even worse, something sinister and immoral. In the 2010s, the perception of horror changed with the advent of the "elevated horror" genre and the success of A24's slate of sleek, supposedly more intellectual horror movies.

And yet, horror still isn't widely recognized as a prestigious or award-worthy genre. Horror actors rarely get nominated for big awards in these films, with Demi Moore's surprising Golden Globe win for the nauseating body horror movie "The Substance" proving an exception to that rule. That's probably why, when you think of beloved or respected Hollywood actors, horror usually isn't the first genre that comes to mind, but maybe it should be.

Everyone's got to start somewhere,...

New month, new horror recommendations from Deep Cuts Rising. This installment features five selections reflecting the month of October 2024.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings include a Frankenstein anime adaptation, a K-Pop ghost story, and a pioneer of screenlife horror.

Pigs (1973)

Pictured: Pigs (1973)

Directed by Marc Lawrence.

It would be wrong to say Pigs‘ complicated release history is more interesting than the movie itself. Just don’t go into the movie expecting a simple story of sinister swine getting their fill of human flesh. Adjust your expectations as you watch Pigs for Hog Out Month.

Instead of pure hog horror, Pigs is far more concerned with the troubled interiority of its protagonist Lynn (Toni Lawrence). Something from her haunted past is making her uneasy. And the longer she...

Hanks' acting career began in horror with "He Knows You're Alone" but hasn't properly revisited the genre since. Hanks has embraced horror comedy with characters like David S. Pumpkins, but fans await a truly scary performance from him. Returning to horror could showcase Hanks' versatility, challenging his typecasting as the lovable father figure.

Tom Hanks has an impressive career as an actor, covering different genres, but Im still waiting for him to return to the surprising genre that launched his movie career. Tom Hanks has earned the love and respect of his colleagues and the audience thanks to his persona on and off the screen. Hanks acting career began in the 1980s, with his big break being Ron Howards rom-com fantasy Splash. After that, Hanks became an icon in the 1980s and 1990s, switching to drama in the latter, a genre where he has found great success.

Some of Tom...

The Mandalorian season 3 unveils the Shriek-hawk team, specialized Mandalorian warriors skilled in jetpack ops and rescue missions. First seen in The Clone Wars, the Shriek-hawks led by Paz Vizsla open up discussions on other specialized Mandalorian teams. Their introduction adds depth to Mandalorian lore, hinting at more factions within the Children of the Watch's group and beyond.

One year after The Mandalorian season 3, Star Wars has finally revealed more about one specialized group of Mandalorian warriors. The Mandalorian season 3 brought more Mandalorians to the screen than ever before, between Din Djarin's Children of the Watch faction, Bo-Katan Kryze's Nite Owls, and other allies. This opened the door for plenty of new Mandalorian lore to be established, though many of these new details have long since gone named and unexplained. One new group, however, has finally gotten a description, and it has received this information in quite a surprising way.

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Tom Hanks was a television star in 1982 and, 42 years ago, if what you really wanted was to be a movie star, that was a problem.

Actors had made the transition from small-screen success to big-screen stardom before, but Hanks' claim to fame was as one-half of the cross-dressing duo living in an all-women's apartment building on the ABC sitcom "Bosom Buddies." Though the show was initially a hit, the gimmick quickly wore thin, and Hanks found himself back on the casting market.

Post-"Bosom Buddies," Hanks' sole film credit was in the 1980 slasher flick "He Knows You're Alone," and, to his credit, he was so charismatic that the filmmakers opted not to kill him off onscreen. Still, that's not much to hang your hat on, nor was, unfortunately, two years of mild television notoriety. The biggest sitcom stars of the 1970s roughly in Hanks' age range were getting star vehicle...

The first trailer for Venom 3 (subtitled The Last Dance) revealed the involvement of another Marvel Comics symbiote villain, the dastardly Toxin. 

Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock/Venom is seemingly set to say goodbye to the big screen when the super-powered Spider-Man-adjacent threequel arrives in theaters this October. 

Hardy's Sony Spider-Man Universe anti-hero has already gone up against some major big bads pulled right from the comics page, including Shriek, Carnage, and Riot. 

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Tom Hanks is one of the most celebrated and well-known celebrities in Hollywood today, but along the way, there were a few movies that shaped his career. Tom Hanks got his start in acting when he was in his early 20s after moving to New York to pursue a career in the industry. He got some early success after landing a few minor and other leading parts, as well as landing a role to play in a stage production of The Mandrake, directed by Daniel Southern alongside the Riverside Shakespeare Company.

Hanks was able to scale up his career, forming relationships with big names in the industry, and winning awards for his work. He has also won two Oscars, along with four more nominations for his work. He has gained great success as both a comedy and a dramatic actor, in animated films and live-action, and he is widely regarded...

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are a legendary cinematic duo with their rom-com collaborations becoming cult classics. Their chemistry shines in movies like "Joe Versus the Volcano," "Sleepless in Seattle," and "You've Got Mail." Despite not teaming up recently, fans hope for a Hanks and Ryan rom-com reunion after 25 years apart.

Certain on-screen pairings make for an ideal cinematic team and each of the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movies has added to their reputation as one of these iconic duos. The actors have made three romantic comedies together combining their winning chemistry with some unique love stories and a good sense of humor. Individually, the two stars enjoyed a high level of popularity in the '90s, but their collaborations represent some of the most acclaimed and beloved entries in their respective filmographies, ranging from cult classics to rom-com classics.

Tom Hanks' best movies represent some of the greatest...

Venom 3 is set to take the silver screen by storm in just over a year, yet few details regarding its story or cast of characters have emerged. While that isn't too surprising considering the amount of time left between now and the film's release, this lack of information does leave room for plenty of speculation as to where exactly the next Venom film will be headed.

Fans have already seen the likes of Riot, Carnage, and Shriek terrorize Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock, and with how much the second film ratcheted up the tension compared to the first, it is hard to imagine that the same won't follow for the third. As such, it only makes sense to look toward the comics for signs of what might be in store for Venom 3, and the source material is full of various villains who could easily take to the spotlight.

Iron Man's strongest case as Marvel's Batman is made in The Invincible Iron Man #14, as Tony Stark sees himself exclusively as Iron Man. Tony Stark's recurring nightmare highlights his belief that he is more Iron Man than Tony Stark, adding layers to his identity crisis. Tony's experiences of losing his company, resources, and best friend parallel Bruce Wayne's struggles as Batman, showcasing the similarities between the two characters.

Warning: Spoilers for Invincible Iron Man #14!If anyone is the equivalent of Batman for the Marvel Universe, it has to be Iron Man. It seems as though the list of such candidates grows with each passing year, most recently with Danny Rand, formerly known as the Iron Fist, making a good argument for being Marvel's Batman. Other heroes like Moon Knight and even more oddball choices like Modok have drawn comparisons to the Caped Crusader.

Tony Stark's always been a name...

Aew wrestler Stephon ‘Swerve’ Strickland has been cast in the slasher movie Stiletto, Deadline reports. Written and directed by Samuel Gonzalez Jr. (The Retaliators), the film is expected to go into production sometime within the next couple weeks.

Coming our way from Hearse Productions, Stiletto is set to star Gigi Gustin, whose credits include That’s a Wrap and the upcoming The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / The Hills Have Eyes homage Brute ’76. The story Gonzalez crafted for this one has the following synopsis: A year after the grisly murder of a local exotic dancer, the victim’s sister, Lyric [Gustin], searches for the serial killer responsible as he stalks and kills his favorite dancers on the night of the anniversary.

Gonzalez and Gustin are producing alongside Matthew Hersh.

Joining Gustin and Strickland in the cast are Charlotte McKinney (Fantasy Island), Colleen Camp (Die Hard with a Vengeance), Pancho Moler (3 from Hell), Tyler Abron...

The financing and development platform at Tiffcom will take place in person for the first time.

The Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (Tgfm) has revealed the 15 projects selected for financing and development at Tiffcom, the content market of Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).

The 4th edition of Tgfm will take place in-person for the first time from October 25-27, having launched during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 when all industry activity took place online.

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Projects include The Fox King by Malaysia’s Woo Ming Jin, whose revenge thriller Stone Turtle premiered in competition at Locarno in...

Armand Mastroianni's 1980 "He Knows You're Alone" might have borrowed a number of shots from John Carpenter's 1978 film "Halloween." It might have drawn from that movie's score, and it might have conceived of its unstoppable villain in a similar way. But it doesn't deserve to be left in the margins of the '80s slasher movie boom, especially given that it isn't a lesser entry in the genre.

Despite the movie being a decent-sized hit at the time of its release, grossing nearly $5 million per BoxOfficeMojo, it has largely been forgotten, outside of an early Tom Hanks appearance as a jogger. Compared to the best-known entries in the slasher subgenre of horror, there wasn't any kind of easy iconography to get absorbed into mainstream pop culture. Its relatively low budget means that there's fairly limited coverage and occasional bits of technical cost-cutting. But there's a strong sense of dread throughout,...

Take a gander at the last 40 years of cinema, and you’ll find at least one universal truth: The people love Tom Hanks.

The 66-year-old actor is known around Hollywood and the world as an affable everyman, with as much capacity for heady drama as he has a knack for quippy comedy. Hanks’ most famous roles range from the light and whimsical to the darkly complex. He’s also responsible for delivering lines in some of cinema’s most quotable movies, including “A League of Their Own” (“There’s no crying in baseball!”) and “Apollo 13”.

Hanks cut his teeth as a stage actor, performing Shakespeare and other plays in his hometown of Lakewood, California for much of the late ’70s. At 24-years-old, Hanks made his first movie appearance as a flirty jogger in the slasher “He Knows You’re Alone” before starring opposite Daryl Hannah in Ron Howard’s romantic...

Tom Hanks may be known as one of the nicest actors in Hollywood, but the actor now admits that his behavior on-set hasn't always reflected this. Getting his start in movies in the 1980s and '90s, Hanks is now one of the most widely-known actors of his generation. The star has appeared in the likes of Big, Forrest Gump, and Saving Private Ryan, and most recently starred in A Man Called Otto.

In a recent interview with BBC News to promote his forthcoming novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, which is inspired by his own career, Hanks admits that he hasn't always been on his best behavior on set. The novel features an arrogant male actor who frequently delays and disrupts filming with his self-centered antics, something that Hanks is evidently guilty of himself. Check out the actor's full comment below:

"I have pulled every single...

Stirring parents up into a paranoid mob is an American tradition, and it's one of our lousiest. The poorly-researched anti-comic book tome "Seduction of the Innocent" led to a public comic book burning in the 1950s and decades of oppressive self-censorship within the publishing world. Violent video games like "Mortal Kombat" were accused of corrupting our children in the 1990s, leading to congressional hearings and a video game rating system.

That these waves of mob mentality are almost universally viewed, years later, as embarrassing ignorance and/or obvious manipulations doesn't seem to stop the cycle from starting up, over and over again. Apparently, nobody ever learns anything. Even when we finally admit that there was nothing terribly sinister about the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons — which was also accused of corrupting kids for many years — and transform it into a family-friendly fantasy movie (for the second time), we find ourselves...

Welcome to the Ghostface Glossary, a guide to every horror reference and nod throughout the first five films of the Scream franchise.

After a lot of pausing, rewinding, and zooming in, as well as researching, we’re catching all of the many horror-specific references Williamson, Craven, and Co. included in this beloved postmodern slasher franchise. If we’ve forgotten any glaring ones, kindly let us know.

This guide will exclude homages from previous Scream films and their respective sequels— we’re only looking at outside horror franchises and inspirations, because any red-blooded Ghostface fan is likely already aware of those. (Goes without saying that the beloved faux franchise ‘Stab’(s) 1-8 will also not be counted, since, even though our neon green ‘Stab’ t-shirts and mock VHS tapes feel very real, it’s still a very fake franchise). If we’ve forgotten any glaring ones, kindly let us know.

“By definition alone,...

Tom Hanks has been one of Hollywood's most beloved actors for decades, but his first movie role actually came in a surprising film. Most remembered for his dramatic turns in films like 1993's Philadelphia, the Jack-of-all-trades actor wasn't limited to serious roles alone, and he actually got his start doing comedy. After making his debut in the 1970s, it didn't take Hanks long to establish himself, and by the 1990s he was an actor with one Oscar nomination under his belt. Hanks eventually won the Best Actor Oscar two years in a row in 1994 and 1995, and his place among Hollywood royalty had been cemented.

Hanks's strength as an actor came from his ability to play a mix of the likable everyman while also perfectly embodying historical figures as well. Tom Hanks's films with Robert Zemeckis were a match made in cinematic heaven, and he continued his string of hits into...

Welcome to Fly Creek, Georgia. You’re more likely to come across a mass of screaming (!), electrified, and hungry earthworms than you are any flies. At least that’s the case with Squirm (1976), Jeff Lieberman’s feature film debut that will have you lamenting the depressive state of small town life, all while cheering for the worms to wipe out the less than desirables from the sleepy burg.

Released at the end of July stateside, Squirm received some decent reviews and did well enough at the box office, but the lost acclaim for Lieberman’s work starts here. His films were always noticed by critics, but rarely connected with mainstream audiences. To be fair, Squirm has a low key charm that doesn’t announce itself, but rather works (notice I didn’t say ‘worms’) its way through the narrative, giving it an insidious, grubby vibe. If you put enough of anything together,...

“The King of the Whole World” (“El Rey de Todo el Mundo”), a musical drama directed by “Carmen’s” Carlos Saura and lit by “Apocalypse Now” cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, has been snapped up for world sales by Latido Films.

The deal was sealed as the Toronto Festival hit its full stride on Friday. Spanish distribution rights have been acquired by distribution house Syldavia.

Starring Ana de la Reguera, Manuel García Rulfo, “The King of All the World” is fiction – so more in line with Saura’s Cannes and Bafta winning “Carmen” (1983) as well as “Tango” (1998), for which Saura has won international fame and Oscar nominations, than his latter-day, more informative documentaries.

Damián Alcazar and Enrique Arce co-star.

The plot is hallmark Saura: World-famous choreographer Sara (De la Reguera) is asked by her former boyfriend Manuel, a stage director (García Rulfo), to help him prepare a new play.

A highly competitive...

Despite the terrible name, the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters sees 2021 as the year that it establishes itself as a viable superhero franchise with designs on matching the McU and Dceu. Venom may have earned over $850 million at the box office, but the jury is still out on whether or not Morbius will be able to come anywhere close to that level of success, even with the trailer hinting at some surprising connections to events that have happened in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Symbiotic sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage is in a much better position as the follow-up to a monster hit, with another fan favorite being added into the mix thanks to Woody Harrelson’s Cletus Kasady. Not to mention there are also solo movies for Kraven the Hunter and Spider-Woman in development as the SPUoMC moves full steam ahead.

Most people were under the impression...

Stars: Nicolas Fontaine, Brittany Drisdelle, Lanisa Dawn, Nick Walker, Madelline Harvey, Paul Zinno, Chip Chuipka, Howard Rosenstein, Ryan Ali, Cameron Geller, Ivan Ossa, Samantha Hodhod, Jeremy Lavigne Suzanna Lenir, Owen Bruemmer | Written and Directed by Renaud Gauthier

The Wet Valley Water Park welcomes high school students celebrating their graduation in all their unleashed libido glory. However, in the midst of the ribald romping revels, a black-gloved murderer is tinkering with the water slides and sabotaging the swimming pools.

I’ve said it many times before and I’ve no doubt I’ll say it many times again, but Canadians know how to make damn good horror flicks and guess what? Aquaslash is another product of the Canadian genre scene, another fantastic genre flick from the land that brought us the likes of He Knows You’re Alone, My Bloody Valentine, Antisocial and this years Fantasia Festival highlight The Oak Room.

Aquaslash...

HBO Europe has asked five Spanish directors to reflect on coronavirus-induced confinement in a specially commissioned, fast-turnaround short film anthology series entitled “At Home.”

The five individual episodes will be filmed in the homes of the directors, who will collaborate with those they are isolating with. They have been provided with some basic equipment to create their episodes, including a smartphone.

The five Spanish directors working on the project include: Leticia Dolera, who helmed Canneseries TV festival winner and Movistar Plus original “Perfect Life”; Rodrigo Sorogoyen, whose political thriller “The Candidate” screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival; Paula Ortiz, whose film “The Bride” — based on Federico García Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” — played at San Sebastián in 2015; Carlos Marqués-Marcet, whose debut film “10.000km” in 2014 won the best new director award at the Goyas and whose recent credits include “Days to Come” and “Anchor and Hope”; and Elena Martín,...

When Tom Hanks jogged onto screen in his feature film debut in the 1980 slasher pic “He Knows You’re Alone,” one probably couldn’t have predicted he would go on to become one of the most successful and beloved actors of all time. Playing a psychology student who postulates about the appeal of fear, Hanks makes manages to the most of his few minutes of screen time. And even though it’s brief, you can catch some of the hallmarks of what would later become a Tom Hanks performance — charismatic but a little goofy, handsome but non-threatening, and able to make any line sound like it has a handful of meanings.

It’s been a long journey from that low-budget horror movie to two-time Academy Award-winning actor, Emmy-award winning producer and Hollywood’s Nicest Guy. On Jan. 5, the eight-time Golden Globe winner will receive the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.’s special honor,...

Tom Hanks has had nothing short of an illustrious film career, one that's going to be heartily celebrated with kind words from famous friends and movie clips galore at the 2020 Golden Globes on Sunday when he's presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Really, the Hollywood Foreign Press is playing catch-up—the 63-year-old actor has already received the AFI Life Achievement Award, a Kennedy Center Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And to think, it all started with He Knows You're Alone. Hanks only has about four minutes of screen time in the low-budget 1980 horror flick that served as his movie debut that summer. But even a national treasure has to start...

Remember that story about how Mr. Rogers? The one about how he was actually the most prolific sniper in the history of the Marines? (Or was it the Navy Seals?) He killed 25 (or 150) people in Vietnam and wore long sleeves to cover the tattoos adorning his arms. It wasn’t true, of course, but wouldn't that be something? We want our nice guys to have dark sides because nice guys seem mendacious. Behind that veneer of joviality something sinister must lurk. That’s what Tom Junod wanted when he was assigned to interview Mr. Rogers for Esquire in 1998; instead, the journalist, an acerbic, unsentimental writer, was startled to find out that Mr. Rogers was seemingly the real deal. Fred Rogers is portrayed by Tom Hanks in Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which chronicles Junod’s (here called Lloyd Vogel) revelatory encounter with the beloved television personality,...

Tom Hanks' first movie was really cheesy. Seventh-billed in a 1980 stalker "thriller" called He Knows You're Alone, the 24-year-old actor played a bushy-haired psych student who tries to impress young women at an amusement park with his alleged ability to spot the criminal type. There's absolutely nothing here to suggest that this seemingly affable but unprepossessing fellow would go any further than the other young actors in this defiantly talent-free film, none of whom was ever heard from again.

But the kid with a vagabond California childhood pressed on, soon winning roles on popular shows such as ...

Tom Hanks' first movie was really cheesy. Seventh-billed in a 1980 stalker "thriller" called He Knows You're Alone, the 24-year-old actor played a bushy-haired psych student who tries to impress young women at an amusement park with his alleged ability to spot the criminal type. There's absolutely nothing here to suggest that this seemingly affable but unprepossessing fellow would go any further than the other young actors in this defiantly talent-free film, none of whom was ever heard from again.

But the kid with a vagabond California childhood pressed on, soon winning roles on popular shows such as ...

Ryan Lambie Mar 29, 2017

Mazes And Monsters provided the first feature role for a young Tom Hanks in 1982 - and warned against the perils of Dungeons & Dragons...

Where there's great popularity, there's sometimes an equal and opposite backlash. Pokemon has occasionally been accused of promoting everything from Satanism to animal cruelty. The book Why Knock Rock, published in 1984, warned of the morally corrosive dangers hidden in the music of Judas Priest, Kiss and Led Zeppelin.

Before all this, there was the moral panic surrounding Dungeons & Dragons. From humble beginnings, the role-playing game quickly became a phenomenon in the 1970s, taking the company behind it - Tactical Studies Rules, founded by Gary Gygax - from a tiny cottage industry to a 600-strong firm by the end of the decade.

Dungeons & Dragons' brilliance lies in its freeform design; with only a few raw materials - dice, counters, a rulebook - the game conjures...

Last weekend, Tom Hanks hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live, where he portrayed a new character that became an instant classic among fans, David S. Pumpkins. The original sketch featured a young couple played by Kate McKinnon and Beck Bennett, who visit a Halloween-themed haunted elevator ride called "100 Floors of Frights," operated by Kenan Thompson. It features the unusual inclusion of David S. Pumpkins, a man more bizarre than scary. Thanks to the Internet, this character has now gone on to invade some of your favorite horror movies.

Buzzfeed's Jesse McLaren put together a brief video on Twitter, that edits David S. Pumpkins into movies like The Shining, Insidious, The Conjuring, The Ring, Scream and the original Halloween. Given the sudden popularity of David S. Pumpkins, it wouldn't be surprising to see even more of these mashups surface as we get closer and closer to Halloween. In case you didn't see it last weekend,...

We're looking back at some of the top stars in Hollywood who got their start in horror movies!

In the spirit of the Halloween season, we're taking a look back at some of the top stars in Hollywood who got their start in horror movies.

1. George Clooney: Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)

Before launching into space with Gravity and well before his $1.9 billion box office numbers, George Clooney starred in the tomato-themed horror flick, Return of the Killer Tomatoes – this became Clooney’s first entrance to the big screen, and his first flop.

2. Matthew McConaughey: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

Fresh off Dazed and Confused and before he stripped down for Magic Mike -- Matthew McConaughey terrorized a young Renée Zellweger in the 1994 horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.

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3. Jennifer Aniston: Leprechaun (1993)

Just one year before she was cast as...

To all our La based readers, here's a special Halloween treat for you! FEARnet friend, Badass Digest contributor & Horror Movie A Day's Brian Collins is hosting a very special screening of 'Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers' this Saturday night, October 26th at 11:59Pm at the legendary New Beverly Cinema located at 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles 90036. Here's your chance to see Michael Myers on the big screen this Halloween season and in glorious 35mm! In attendance for a special pre-screening Q & A and introduction will be screenwriter Daniel Farrends!

Lots of interesting tidbits about this particular entry in the 'Halloween' franchise. This marks one of the first feature film appearances of actor Paul Rudd ('Anchorman,' 'I Love You, Man') as Tommy Doyle! It also sadly became the final appearance of the late, great Donald Pleasence as Michael Myers' nemesis Dr. Sam Loomis. Tickets...

Year:  1997Director:  Wes CravenCast:  Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jada Pinkett, Jerry O' Connell, Jamie Kennedy

Fright Meter Award Winner:  Best Horror Movie, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress

It has been two years since the bloody murder rampage of Billy Loomis and Stu Macher.  Sidney is now away at college, trying to put the past behind her.  Unfortunately, with the release of the new motion picture Stab based on the book The Woodsboro Murders by none other than Gale Weathers, a new ghostface killer begins stalking Sidney and her friends. 

Scream 2 is a rarity in the annals of horror cinema; it is a sequel that actually matches, and nearly outdoes, the original film.  True to the "sequel rules" laid out in the film, everything is bigger and more elaborate here, including the characters, death scenes, and motive.   The dazzling opening sequence, though heavily influenced by the...

Tom Hanks was often likened to a 'new Jimmy Stewart' during his peak years. I never thought the tag quite fit because, though Hanks is a likeable "everyman" lead, he doesn't have the same range. Hanks, unlike Stewart, rarely tests the darkness at the edges and when he did in Road to Perdition it was one of his flattest portraits. In comparison, can anyone watch Vertigo and not come away fully aware of how comfortable Jimmy Stewart was burrowing into the skin of rather squirm-inducing psyches? The following lineup only includes lead or huge supporting roles and no voice work. (I'm not sure how one would categorize The Polar Express. How would one?)

So... sorry, Woody. You'll make it up at the box office this weekend with Toy Story 3 [my review] playing everywhere. Rest assured that you're still one of his most iconic roles.

Because the posters have to be...

Blogger Stacie Ponder's horror columns appear every Wednesday. I'm always delighted to spot a famous face gallivanting around in a horror movie filmed before the actor hit the big time. Just about every star on the planet has at least one horror role in their past, from Oscar winners Holly Hunter and Tom Hanks (The Burning and He Knows You're Alone, respectively) to the likes of Dana Carvey (Halloween...