10 Stars Who Featured In Horror Movies Before They Were Famous
1. Leonardo DiCaprio - Critters 3 (1991)
Leonardo DiCaprio’s first film was the straight-to-video sequel Critters 3, a series that never quite managed to emulate the more popular Gremlins franchise.
He played Josh, the stepson of the corrupt landlord of the building terrorised by the alien creatures, and unwittingly managed to doom his stepfather by locking him in a room with them. The film was universally panned, with even Leo describing it in is biography as “possibly one of the worst films of all time”.
DiCaprio didn't really come to the public’s attention until Romeo and Juliet in 1996 and then achieved superstardom in Titanic in 1997.
Despite many, many critically acclaimed performances since, he had to wait until 2015 to get his Oscar with The Revenant. He has never been tempted to revisit his horror roots.