25 Actors You Totally Forgot Starred In Classic Horror Franchises

23. Matthew McConaughey & Renee Zellweger

The Franchise: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Roles: Psychotic Vilmer Sawyer and innocent Jenny, respectively, in 1994's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.

Why You Forgot: In 1974, Tobe Hooper unleashed Leatherface and his family upon the world, creating a horror icon who went on to resurface in a total of six more films with another on the way next year. 

By 1994, the franchise had begun running out of steam, with The Next Generation - then called The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre - being put on ice for a further three years before being thawed out for the rest of the world in an attempt to capitalize on the fame McConaughey and Zellweger had found in the interim. 

With the movie itself easily being one of the worst that the franchise has had to offer and a far cry from the memorable status of Hooper's original, it's no surprise that their roles in it have long since been buried by their individual work that eventually followed.