10 More Movies Actors Want You To Forget

9. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation - Matthew McConaughey

Countless now-famous actors got their careers started in (usually terrible) horror films, and Matthew McConaughey is one of the more notable examples.

He starred in the fourth Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie as the murderous, psychopathic antagonist Vilmer Slaughter, performing opposite a final girl played by another future Oscar winner, Renée Zellweger.

Though shot in the summer of 1994, the film wasn't released until three years later after both McConaughey and Zellweger's careers had taken off.

To his credit, McConaughey at least has fun with the part by exploiting his easy southern charm, even if it's ultimately a case of just making the best of thoroughly grotty, barrel-scraping material.

Considering that McConaughey had graduated onto classier, acclaimed films such as Lone Star, A Time to Kill and Contact before The Next Generation was finally released, it's little surprise that he attempted to have the movie's theatrical release cancelled, albeit to no avail.

In recent years McConaughey's stance on the film has at least mellowed a bit, though with an Oscar now in tow and the "McConaissance" complete, he'd probably still prefer if you didn't bring it up.