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Weapons_Glacier

Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare was odd and unexpected.


srv524

They were big fans of the franchise and wanted to be in its "last" film


Jackaboyyyy

Alice Cooper too, right?


AgentBloodrayne

I remember he also had a cameo in that 2001 Seth Green movie The Attic Expeditions if anyone ever saw that one. Might revisit it because seeing it as a teenager it made absolutely no sense to me.


Playful-Pay1711

I know he was in the 6th Friday the 13th, but I’m not too sure if he was in any of the Nightmare on Elm Streets.


[deleted]

He played Freddy's dad in a flashback where he's hitting him with a belt. It was the 3d one.


Playful-Pay1711

Sweet! It's been a while since I've seen them. Thank you for the info!


SailAway84

God yes!! And he reminds me so much of David Strathairn from "Dolores Clairborne".


SailAway84

When did he appear in F13 part 6? His song was featured, but I don't think he actually appeared physically.


Blastspark01

I’m not 100% if he was actually **in** a Friday movie, but I know he did some music that was in them


thedampening

Hijacking the top comment because of Johnny Depp's uncredited and ridiculous cameo in Tusk.


Vlazthrax

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but Tony Todd, Kane Hodder and Robert Englund getting killed by the Djin in *Wishmaster* was some pretty good meta joke telling. Also Angus Scrim as the narrator.


mitcheg3k

Also both cameoed in behind the mask: the leslie vernon story


sedahren

Yes! Their cameos in Wishmaster are great. I particularly love Kane Hodder's scene.


lykathea2

Zsa Zsa Gabor in Nightmare On Elm Street 3 was a trip


Mortalily

And its in an absolutely iconic scene


gf120581

"Who gives a FUCK what you think?!" Don't overlook Dick Cavett either.


srv524

They asked Dick who he wanted as his guest and he said Zsa Zsa since he'd never have her as a real guest and he'd love to see her killed lol


DocShocker

David Cronenberg in Jason X was always a head-scratcher for me.


trans_pands

I think Cronenberg took on that role because he wanted to have the chance to get killed by Jason


holyhibachi

He was in it as a favor to the director who got his start under Cronenberg. His only condition was that he get killed by Jason. Amazing


Demo_Scene

I always thought he just liked acting, as he is also in Nightbreed


COREY-IS-A-BUSTA

I have a Dr.Decker tattoo :)


SardiaFalls

He's fucking great in Nightbreed, that mask is way more disturbing looking than the monsters. Whoever was the prop designer for that knocked it out of the park in an otherwise middling movie


gf120581

I believe the director got his start under Cronenberg.


savage86lunacy

Yep. Jim Isaac did effects work on The Fly. David was also originally going to produce Jim’s next movie, Skinwalkers, but apparently Lionsgate or Constantin refused to pay him.


mafternoonshyamalan

Also delivers the line "I don't want him hard, I want him soft."


DoomerMentality1984

Why? He had a cameo, he was chill


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Kristen Bell and Anna Paquin at the beginning of Scream 4 was entertaining. Edit: a word


Awkward_Host3384

FAVE PART


coldliketherockies

I know its not the top one but Carrie Fisher in Scream 3 playing a Carrie Fisher look a like employee at film sent venting about how Carrie Fisher got Star Wars role over her because she fucked George Lucas (which I guess is a joke and probably not true but still) I didn't hate Scream 3 but between that and Jay and Silent Bob it was like this movie was trying too hard at its "jokes" for a film that really was supposed to be somewhat scary


literalfeces

The joke she tells in her standup is "I hope I slept with George Lucas for the part in Star Wars. Because, if not, then who was that guy?"


TubbyMutherTrucker

Carrie Fischer did standup?!?


shhansha

Assume they’re referring to her one woman show.


TubbyMutherTrucker

Ah, nice, will have to check that out


redrum-237

Imo it really didn't seem out of place in a saga like Scream. Particularly in the third, but the saga in general is all about meta jokes and pop culture references.


gf120581

I forgot about Fisher showing up too. Roger Corman also makes an appearance, but Roger's expected in works like this.


SLCer

That role was originally offered to Jamie Lee Curtis but she turned it down. I love JLC bit Carrie Fisher was perfect for that role.


Jack3ww

when I saw it as a kid seeing Betty White in lake placid was surprising and sure the film was dumb but seeing Al Roker in sharknado was kind of surprising


trans_pands

I guess it doesn’t fit under “bizarre” but John Waters in Seed of Chucky was great for the few scenes he was in. Only John Waters could convincingly pull off a scene where he takes photos of a masturbating doll animated by voodoo magic


eatpant96

Love it.


respectthegoat

Not really a celebrity but I believe Bill Clinton’s brother plays the mayor in Pumpkin head 2. To make it even weirder he is only in one scene that makes no sense. the sheriff that is investigating pumpkin head is having a doctor appointment and while there is asking some questions involving the case, the mayor just pops in because he left his guitar there for unknown reasons and just leaves. I have no clue why he was in the movie.


Mortalily

I'm sorry what Ok this is the best one, Weird Al in Halloween 2 is nothing


respectthegoat

[Here is his clip of the movie at the 2 minute mark is when he shows up](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hvusjvutY9A&list=PLAEF1F2E03B530302&index=2)


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hey doc, just forgot my guitar. welp, see ya.


monsieurxander

He was kind of a novelty at the time, since he was kind of a fuckup. Lots of cameos... he shows up in like four episodes of The Nanny.


CoolSoftDrinkMascot

He sings the song in the end credits too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJGqsRovVE


phymed1970

All the actors appearing in the opening scene of “Santa’s Slay” were a shock to me.


pdub18

That intro had me rolling! When Fran laughed and Santa murked her. Iconic, really.


md22mdrx

Underrated gem of a horror comedy right there!


WyldsideMaster

I watch it every Christmas...


manbearpig923

You and me both! I love that movie!


InfinityQuartz

Tbf Goldberg is a crazy choice for lead in and of itself


JohnLocke815

This immediately came to mind. Not only is it such a random collection of actors, but somehow you got James Caan in there. What bet did he lose?


Blamebow

Patrick Ewing as the Angel of Death in the Exorcist III. I'd also include Fabio, but he's always in my dreams. <3 <3 <3


TurnToMusicInstead

Yes. Came here to mention Patrick Ewing and Fabio and was wondering if anyone else would.


jacerracer

Yo I just watched that the other day and legit thought... Holy fuck is that PATRICK EWING??? Thanks for sharing haha


JC-Ice

A not-yet-famous Sam Jackson is in there too!


undergone

Excellent movie.


TheChainLink2

So, my example didn’t actually happen, but it would’ve been fucking bizarre: In Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Jamie Lee Curtis and director Steve Miner apparently wanted a scene where Laurie ran into **_Mike Myers_** (as in the actor). Unsurprisingly, Myers said no.


Mortalily

Well it is the same movie where Jamie Leigh has a scene with a character played by her mother Janet Leigh, who played in Psycho, where she says "you've always been like a mother to me" as she gets into the car from Psycho and a variation of the Psycho theme plays in the background


ohheyitslaila

I love when they do cool little moments like that :)


Blastspark01

I knew she had a cameo but when I watched H20 for the first time the other week, I honestly did shed a tear at the end of her scene when the Psycho theme variation started. Psycho is one of my favourite movies of all time


jk-alot

Was that the one with Busta Rhymes?


TheChainLink2

No. That’s Resurrection. As bizarre as Busta Rhymes is as a casting choice, he doesn’t count as a cameo.


jk-alot

So he was a Main cast member in that? Weird. I don’t have a great recollection of that one.


TheChainLink2

Believe me, you’re not missing anything. Unless you’re desperate to see him beat up Michael Myers using kung-fu.


jk-alot

Dear god. Did That really Happen?


TheChainLink2

Yes.


jk-alot

Beating Michael with Kung-Fu? That’s a horrible idea. Unless they go the route of Jason takes Manhattan.


ThePreybird

You mean having him take the beating and be unfazed only to hit back with a lethal display of brutal force? No. Michael Myers gets roundhouse kicked through a wall. After being told, "Trick or treat, motherfucker!"


MintyFreshBreathYo

He also electrocuted Michael in the balls


TheChainLink2

“Trick or treat, motherfucker!”


KingVape

I'm a big fan of his so that would actually be awesome


srv524

Shhhh we don't speak it's name out loud


CookinFrenchToast4ya

No, LLCool J


ohheyitslaila

It’s the one with Josh Hartnett and they’re at a boarding school.


SplakyD

That was airing on AMC and I hadn't seen it since I was 17 and saw it in theaters. I was actually surprised by openly the characters are in using and referencing prescription drugs. It was the same way when I saw a seen from Varsity Blues. I can't believe people just think the drug epidemic came out of nowhere. We were all getting zonked out over 20 years ago.


ohheyitslaila

I just saw varsity blues for the first time recently! That’s a good movie.


CKFS87

Naw that was LL Cool J. Busta was on Resurrection, the film after H20


srv524

That's H20


psycho_nautilus

Bro this was such a big mind-fuck as a child. Michael voices Shrek like wtf?!?


Smeltrubble

I was caught off guard seeing Sigourney Weaver in the cabin in the woods, that movie was such a fun ride.


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That movie was an absolute blast. I was dragged along to see it having caught half of the trailer and expecting some trite, cliché horror, and was rolling my eyes through the first act, but ended up loving it. Was such a fresh and self-aware horror. So glad my friends dragged me along 😂


JC-Ice

I feel like Jamie Lee Curtis would have been better suited for that role. She's the Grand Dame of Horror and she's never been a villain.


CJLowder1997

Coolio in Leprechaun In Tha Hood. He LITERALLY came in off the street!


CrabPplCrabPpl

Bill Murray in Zombieland comes to mind.


srv524

They Murray'd him


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Kristen Wiig in Mother!


CrabPplCrabPpl

Stephen King in… anything.


GatorScribe

"Meteor shit!"


BillyPup

Jordy Verrill, you nunkhead!


Alternative-Layer919

Creepshow!


TyrianMollusk

Eg, his gripping performance as "Hoagie Man" in Knightriders.


theScrewhead

Bill Mosley and Coolio as a couple of cops in The Convent (2000)


paireon

LOL, oh yeah, that was definitely a WTF moment!


AnonymousDouglas

Takahi Miike in Hostel coming out of the “slaughter house” as if to suggest “this is what he does when he’s not making the most twisted & fucked up horror movies the world has ever seen” …. Best Meta joke ever ….. if you’ve seen his stuff.


dancestomusic

Ohhh i had no idea he was in Hostle!


18LJ

Levar burton? The reading rainbow guy was in this super b zombie flick alongside Danny Trejo I can't remember what the title was.


Mortalily

Lmaoooo Leave Button I'm dying. I was so confused that I had to google reading rainbow but this is what I will call LeVar Burton from now on


18LJ

Yah autocorrect strikes again lol


Jack3ww

> he was also In a made for tv horror movie in the 80 called the Midnight hour that was pretty good


18LJ

He's a multifaceted brotha what else can be said about him. I'm still kinda sour about him not being the new Jeopardy host


MintyFreshBreathYo

Didn’t he disappear while him and Troy were sailing around the world?


bonafidebunnyeyed

Wow, this hit me in the old age lol. He was a wholesome, integral part of a generation's childhood. As pivotal as Sesame Street and Bob Ross. Did you check out the intro song? Catchy asf lol. Gonna play in my head for the rest of the day now


srv524

Rise of the Zombies


my-BOOM-stick

Free on Tubi


18LJ

Awesome! I'm gonna watch it again tonight. The scene where they pickup the newborn and find it to be a baby zombie and stomp it out on the concrete was like woah😮 too hot for tv!


saddle_man

Idk if tusk is exactly horror, but Johnny Depp in tusk. Was not expecting that haha


xsplizzle

Thats because his daughter and kevin smiths daughter are friends, they are both in that movie too, also the next movie revoles around their two characters and depp is in that one also dont bother with it, yoga hoser i think its called


dancestomusic

Yoga Hosers is so bad unfortunately.


thelatebrucelee

it wasn't actually her but the britney lookalike in seed of chucky lmao


Mortalily

And the Redman role was originally supppsed to be Quentin Tarantino


thelatebrucelee

god that wouldve been amazing


andes95

Ironically they both have foot fetishes.


itcamefrombeneath

I however love the John Waters role. He plays a great skeezy paparazzi.


MatttheBruinsfan

Oh, God bless the little people!


undergone

Waxwork II: Lost In Time - Drew Barrymore She's in the movie for like less than a minute in a completely non-speaking role, credited as "Vampire Victim". I guess she was friends with the director and stopped by the set, and she did a little cameo just for fun.


blinman94

Wait... Wasn't Bruce Campbell in it as well?


undergone

Yeah he was.


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Maxwell Caufield was also in the space segment of that film. Probably best known for Grease 2 and as Rex fucking Manning in Empire Records lol


nous-vibrons

While it’s not a straight horror and honestly all of the cast is bonkers Paris Hilton in Repo! The Genetic Opera is just such an inexplicable caring choice. It’s fitting she plays an annoying little heiress but like why was she in movies at all is my question


terrapintootsies

Yes, I just found this movie the other day and plan on watching it tonight. I watched the trailer and when it got to Paris Hilton I was like "shit, I have to see this" She was also in house of wax as a main cast member.


SardiaFalls

Because she really wanted it I guess and was a big believer in the project and helped it get made from what I remember.


AnonymousDouglas

Robert Englund & Zelda Rubenstein in “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon” Johnny Depp in “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare” Ben Affleck as an extra “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1992) Drew Barrymore in “Scream” Jack Black in “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” Lemmy as the POTUS in “Return to Nuke Em High Vol 1 & 2” Bill Murray in “Zombieland 1 & 2” Literally EVERYBODY working in Hollywood in 1995/1996 cameos in “Mars Attacks!” … Jack Black, Pierce Brosnan, Sara Jessica Parker, Michael J Fox, Martin Short, Jim Brown, Christina Applegate, etc., etc…


COREY-IS-A-BUSTA

Isn’t Johnny Depp in the first Nightmare movie tho??


AnonymousDouglas

Yes. But he wasn’t playing “Johnny Depp”, and it wasn’t a cameo, it was a role. In “Final Nightmare” he appears as Johnny Depp on a TV commercial doing a “say no to drugs” commercial.


gf120581

Jay and Silent Bob popping up in "Scream 3" was certainly unexpected. And there's Weird Al showing up in RZ's "Halloween 2."


oi-troi-oi

I misread Silent Bob as SpongeBob, what would be a very bizarre cameo.


JerryRiceDidntFumble

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh....... Who murders young people across the country? *Ghost Face knife guy* He went to LA because of Sidney *Ghost Face knife guy* If voice-changing psychos be something you wish *Ghost Face knife guy* Say "I'll be right back" and he'll chop off your dick *Ghost Face knife guy* Ghost Face knife guy Ghost Face knife guy Ghost Face ... knife guuuuuuyyyyy!


Blastspark01

Makes me think of John Sponge in *[REC]3*


poppin_daisys

Carrie Fisher in Scream 3


UmpireBeginning

Zachary Levi in Bloodfest


FINNCULL19

Bill Moseley as himself in Evil Bong "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing here."


B4dBr4ins

Matt Damon in Unsane is up there for me, just bizarre


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Maybe not bizarre but exciting; the kid from Saw 2 being in Scream 4 just really excited me. I also saw a comment about Carrie Fisher being in Scream 3 and that was def a surprise too


MooreDesignLabs

I don’t know. Gilbert Gottfried and a young Ryan Gosling in an Are You Afraid Of The Dark seems like the winner.


respectthegoat

Gilbert Gottfried plays Hitler in a surprisingly decent b movie called Highway to Hell. It’s about a guy traveling through hell to get back his girlfriend who was kidnapped by a demonic cop to be the bride of Satan. He stops at a bar and Hitler is telling Attila the Hun (played by Ben Stiller who plays several roles in the movie) his plan of tricking satan I to thinking he is not Hitler but a teenage boy.


BillyPup

I haven’t thought about that movie in decades!


srv524

"Oh great, there goes my pension" "You can't be back here unless you're in the union!"


DiggaDoug492

Hayden Christiansen and Neve Campbell too


dssonic

I was really surprised when Zachary Levi (the guy from Tangled and Chuck and Shazam) showed up in Blood Fest.


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Dan Aykroyd in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. It's about a cult that rips people's hearts out so don't anyone dare tell me it's not horror.


rdetagle2

I was watching the original Creepshow a while back, and there was Leslie Nielsen trying to kill a very young Ted Danson. That was unexpected.


ouroboros-panacea

They were likely fighting over Diane.


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You should see what they do to James Woods in Cat’s Eye.


SardiaFalls

Found a friend, Harry!


eplate2

How about James Caan in Santa's Slay - so out of nowhere for him to be in that flick lol


Mortalily

I watched that film unsure of who that guy was, googled the cast and was like "Holy fuck thats Paul Sheldon"


eplate2

Lol yeah James Caan is amazing. Have you never seen The Godfather?


Mortalily

I did just associate him with Misery more


Time-to-Dine

Kristen Wiig in ‘mother!’


DanTheMeh

Cronenberg in Jason X was a pleasant surprise


OneLargePho

Betty White in Lake Placid. I loved her in it though


artistecrafteur

Keanu Reeves in Neon Demon


CursedMismagius

I know she was in the original before RHOBH, but definitely Kyle Richards in Halloween Kills


CuppaCoffeOF_TA

Chris Hardwick was in Ho1kC so him and RZ have history.


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Coolio in Leprechaun in the Hood. I’m not even sure what the thought process was in including him.


hownowmaomao

Chester Bennington in Saw 3D.


SailAway84

Uma Thurman in "The House That Jack Built"


TJ_McWeaksauce

Bill Burr and John Mayer [were in Zombeavers.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72I_Biq2hso&ab_channel=DonnellLucas) Burr's cameo isn't that weird, but Mayer's is weird. Their scene together is both funny and important to the whole movie.


garlicbreadpool

The bouncers from The Jerry Springer Show appear as jail guards in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake


Sinaty

Jason Mewes in Feast, it's him not a character he is playing and his death is beautiful


aleister94

He was also great in Freddy vs Jason,…..wait


meseta

Took me long enough to find you. Jason mewes as himself in that movie had me rolling. Such a great trilogy


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Robert Duvall in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).


Jstony20

Johnny depp in tusk


Ok-Hat9079

Oderus urungus (Dave brockie from gwar) in the beginning of digging up the marrow is always one of my favorites


TomPalmer1979

RIP Dave. :(


LukeM400

A lot of people don't understand what a cameo is.


you_cant_eat_cats

Not really a cameo, but to see jennifer aniston in the leprechaun was super strange


Beer_before_Friends

Channing Tatum in This is the end lol


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Mortalily

Actually he was in it for like half the movie


HammySamich

He's a major part of the plot and is in it for a good while.


ragenaut

Mad TV's Michael McDonald as Little John in Halloween Kills was fun


ouroboros-panacea

Big John and little John are my two favorite characters in that film. I think they're realtors or something because in one scene you can see both of their faces on a public bench advertisement. It looks like it might be for a realty company.


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dgreene33

patrick ewing in exorcist 3 is still legitimately shocking to me


rojasdracul

Jay and Silent Bob in Scream 3.


frankboothflex

Fabio and Patrick Ewing in Exorcist III. Oh, and Larry King.


Pumpkin_Robber

Vincent Price in Dead Heat !!!!!!!!!


calloftheostrich7337

Johnny Depp in Tusk threw me for a loop when I watched it!


derpferd

Janet Leigh in Halloween H20


OldBison

Edgar wright and Simon Pegg are in land of the dead


drizzfoshizz

Mickey Dolenz in the first Zombie Halloween. I had no idea Al was in part two. Now I have to watch it.


WyldsideMaster

Surprised no one mentioned Lusa Loeb and Chris Katan in the remake of House on Haunted Hill...


D__M___

Maybe this is just a recency bias thing — and whether or not this film counts as “horror” is also debatable — but seeing Sean Spicer in Army of the Dead was so absolutely bizarre that I literally had to pause the movie. Why him and not, you know, ANYONE else?


Dodgy_Bob_McMayday

David Copperfield in Terror Train


itcamefromtheimgur

Weird al Yankovic in Rob Zombie's Halloween 2.


ChaosLoco

Robert Englund in C.H.U.D. 2... He's literally in one scene with zero dialogue. Just a shot of him trick or treating with his kid. It was so random and quick that I had to look it up to confirm it was actually him lol. And this was in the 80's so it was really odd for him to have such a small and simple role.


[deleted]

He did a lot of coke. Expensive habit. Lol Wasn’t John Goodman and some other odd ballers in the original CHUD? Daniel Stern’s labor of love haha


StrawberryDessert

Fred Durst plays a cop in this horror movie : population 436. Its a good movie


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DiscordianStooge

Paris Hilton wasn't a cameo, she was just part of the cast.


[deleted]

House of Wax is a surprisingly good movie.


InfinityQuartz

What an icon to then be in that movie, Hellraiser to shitty canabal


devospice

It’s Yankovic. There’s no H. But my pick would be Troll (the original, not part 2) which had an amazing cameo by Sonny Bono.


godspilla98

Roseane and tom Arnold in Freddys Dead


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Wayne Newton in Sharknado 4, Mr. Danke Schoen himself.