12 Insane Early Movie Roles By MCU Actors

As Nick Fury he's the glue that holds the MCU together, but as the hardest working actor in Hollywood Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in over a hundred films and racked up the highest total box office gross of any actor. It takes something special, then, to stand out amongst all that as a particular oddity in Jackson's early career.

1990's sort of buddy comedy blaxploitation-throwback sex demon horror Def By Temptation is that oddity.

The only directing credit for former child actor and owner of a name that's hard to live up to, James Bond III, Def By Temptation was a passion project for Bond who also wrote and starred in this story of two friends who move in together in New York and are preyed on by a seductive succubus.

Jackson plays the preacher father of Bond's character in flashbacks. In one scene the demonic seductress assumes the form of the dead father to straddle and throttle our hero (with Jackson fully dialling up the bug-eyed manicness). Don't worry, though, the hero's grandma appears from nowhere to save the day.

Even more memorable is the scene immediately before this in which the roommate is eaten by a mouthy TV set, while what appears to be a Spitting Image puppet of Ronald Reagan looks on and laughs, following which the TV vomits up a bucketload of blood.

While Def By Temptation's ambitions to comment on sex and STDs in New York's black community were rarely matched by its ultra-low budget, Jackson would not remain in movies so cheap. Within a couple of years he was filming on Jurassic Park.