8 Horror Movies Where An Actor Dies BEFORE Their Opening Credit!

8. Minnie Driver - Stage Fright

Despite being one of the few name actors plastered over the marketing for 2014's musical slasher Stage Fright, the great Minnie Driver ends up ducking out of the movie within a mere five minutes.

Driver plays diva Broadway singer Kylie Swanson, who following a performance of the Phantom of the Opera-esque stage show The Haunting of the Opera, is brutally stabbed to death backstage by a masked killer resembling the play's antagonist, Opera Ghost.

To rub salt in the wound, she's also murdered in the vicinity of her two young children, who then become the movie's main characters thereafter.

Our final parting glimpse of Driver is with a knife sticking out of her mouth, before the title card flashes up, the story jumps forward 10 years, and the opening credits start rolling.

The final two names among the roll call? Driver, who gets the illustrious "with" credit, and her similarly famous co-star Meat Loaf.

Unlike Driver, though, he actually makes it past the first scene - close to the end, in fact.