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5. Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers - Paul Rudd

Though released shortly after Clueless, the sixth Halloween movie was actually shot first and marked the first major role for Paul Rudd, or as he's credited in the film, "Paul Stephen Rudd."

A 25-year-old Rudd plays Tommy Doyle, a grown-up version of the young boy Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) babysat in the original Halloween, and it's a quintessential example of a future Hollywood success completely striking out in their first movie role.

To be clear, Halloween 6 doesn't exactly offer Rudd anything approaching acceptable material, but his stiff line readings only make matters worse.

Watched today, it's impossible to take Rudd seriously in a role like this, because you're constantly expecting him to fire off a quip that never comes. He's barely aged a day in the 25 years since, though.

To his credit, Rudd did actually agree to appear at a horror convention in 2016 to honour his part in the movie, but to the surprise of just about nobody, he ended up pulling out amid the ever-convenient "scheduling issues."

Rudd doesn't seem like a guy who takes himself particularly seriously, but even so, his stature as a reliable Hollywood comedian couldn't be further from his charmless shambles of a performance as Tommy Doyle, and he surely appreciates this.