20 Famous Faces We Almost Didn’t Recognize

Before he was a two-time Oscar winner and America’s most trusted movie star, Tom Hanks made his film debut in a slasher movie. In the 1980 horror flick He Knows You’re Alone, he played a small supporting role as Elliot, a psychology student who questions the film’s premise. It was a low-budget thriller trying to cash in on the success of Halloween (1978). Hanks brought his natural charm to the part, but it’s still jarring to see the future Forrest Gump in a cheap horror movie, a path so many other big stars also took.