8 Stars Who Got Their Start In Horror Flicks

#3. JAIME LEE CURTIS | HALLOWEEN (1979
Who she played: Laurie Strode, a bashful teenager who babysits Tommy Doyle (later played by Paul Rudd, see below) on the same night serial killer Michael Myers goes on a murderous rampage.

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How she died: It’s … complicated. She made it out of Halloween and Halloween II alive, but met the business end of Myers’ butcher knife before getting dropped off of a roof in 2002’s Halloween Resurrection. Dry your eyes, though. Later in that film, Busta Rhymes used martial arts, a live electrical wire, and the line “Trick or treat, muthafucka!” to take Myers out. See for yourself …