10 Stars Who Featured In Horror Movies Before They Were Famous

10. Renee Zellweger And Matthew McConaughey – Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

Two for the price of one! Both Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey were unknown when they starred in this terrible sequel to the iconic original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was originally titled The Return of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Zellweger’s character Jenny was a pretty good final girl, who gets caught up with the infamous Slaughter family (re-named from the original Sawyers’) when her car crashes on the way home from prom. McConaughey is also surprisingly convincing as a manic and unhinged Vilmer Slaughter, who is disappointingly killed by a random ex machina plane while chasing Jenny with Leatherface.

When Zellweger subsequently got her breakthrough, first with Empire Records and then more noticeably in Jerry Maguire a year later, the film was re-cut, re-named and re-released in 1997 to capitalise on her fame. McConaughey’s agents tried unsuccessfully to block it, saying it would harm his career. It was unsurprisingly still a critical and financial failure.