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Many a young actor has come to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune, only to discover that the road to success is a long and difficult one, with plenty of detours and diversions along the way. And many have found that, in their early, hungry days of trying to make it as a working actor, the horror genre always has a (meager, but cashable) paycheck for a rising young talent with stars in their eyes. And as a salute to those young, starving artists, we give you this week’s special, Halloween-tinged supercut, in which we’ve tracked down and collected some of the more entertaining and surprising of those early roles. Check it out after the jump.

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CREDITS
Edited by Jason Bailey
Music by John Lennon
Featuring (in order of appearance): George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Aniston, Julianne Moore, Isla Fisher, James McAvoy, Keira Knightley,Naomi Watts, Sharon Stone, Johnny Depp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Evangeline Lilly, Kevin Bacon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dana Carvey, Paul Rudd, Michelle Williams, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ted Danson, Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Viggo Mortensen, Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellweger, Jessica Alba, Leonardo DiCaprio, Angela Bassett, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Jack Black, Bill Maher, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson

Check out our previous supercuts and video essays:
“The Goofiest Villains and Monsters in Horror Movie History”
“How Time Travel Works”
“The 75 Coolest-Looking Prohibition-Era Movie Characters”
“The Trippiest Movies Ever Made”
“Faces: 105 of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Close-Ups”
“135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema”
“All of Woody’s Surrogates”
“Wes Anderson’s Favorite New York Movies”
“Threequel: Even More Famous Faces in their Film Debuts”
“The Semi-Obligatory Lyrical Interlude (A Case Study)”
“Encore: More Famous Faces in their Film Debuts”
“Watching the Detectives: Our Favorite Movie Private Eyes”
“And Introducing…: Famous Faces in their Film Debuts”
“The Martin Scoresese Film School”
“How to Pull the Perfect Movie Heist”
“Being Denzel Washington”