12 Oscar Winning Actors Who Starred In Awful Horror Movies

12. Charlize Theron - Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest

Anyone who has a few film adaptations of horror writer Stephen King’s books under their belt can tell you one thing for sure: they either tend to be very good like The Shining or The Shawshank Redemption or absolutely awful like The Mangler, Cell and other such films best left to drift into DVD bargain bin obscurity.

Children of the Corn – which, believe it or not focuses on a corn-based demon that brainwashes hick kids into murdering adults and dressing like Mennonites – and the eight other films it’s spawned so far unfortunately fall into the latter category.

The third instalment, Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, moved the action from Nowheresville, USA to Chicago and saw a young Charlize Theron make her film debut in an uncredited role as a brainwashed corn cult member who meets a sticky end impaled by a mutant corn stalk. As you do.

Despite that rather dubious start in the film industry, less than a decade later she’d be accepting the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Patty Jenkins’ Monster.