10 Celebs You Forgot Starred in Halloween Movies

Oct 7, 2014 6:11 pm

By Julia Birkinbine

Many Hollywood A-Listers have horror movie skeletons in their closets—but don't worry, we've found them!

Click through the gallery to see 10 stars, including Brad Pitt, Katherine Heigl, Jessica Alba and more who starred in some pretty low-budget Halloween films before hitting it big.

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Katherine Heigl played a teenage girl named Jade in 1998's Bride of Chucky.

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An 18-year-old Jessica Alba starred in the 1999 thriller Idle Hands, a film about a boy whose hand becomes possessed with the desire to murder. She also had quite the steamy sex scene in the movie!

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Before they became A-List actors Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey starred in 1994's The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which follows Jenny (played by Renée) and her friends as they're terrorized by a masked chainsaw murderer and his sidekick (played by Matthew).

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At age 26 Brad Pitt appeared in Cutting Class, a 1989 horror film in which he portrayed a high school student who becomes the lead suspect in a murder mystery.

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Before she stole our hearts as Rachel Green on Friends, Jennifer Aniston played a teenage girl named Tory Reding who was being terrorized by an evil leprechaun in the 1993 film, Leprechaun.

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Before starring in hit films including A Beautiful Mind, He's Just Not That Into You and Noah, Jennifer Connelly played a young girl who discovers her strange ability to communicate with insects can be used to solve a series of murders in 1985's Phenomena.

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In one of her first major film roles Hilary Duff starred as Wendy, a young girl who teams up with Casper the ghost to defeat an evil warlock in 1998's Casper Meets Wendy.

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In her second on-screen appearance Amy Adams played a supporting role in the 2000 slasher film Psycho Beach Party.

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Patricia Arquette played the heroine in the third installment of the legendary A Nightmare on Elm Street series in 1987.

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Before hitting it big in Hollywood, Kate Beckinsale starred in the British film Haunted, a spooky period piece about a man trying to debunk a haunted house.