Know any up and coming stars who died in a sci-fi movie?

[Francesca]

Hi it's me again!
Thanks to anyone who replied to my last e-mail, i was looking for any clues on stars before they were famous appearing in bad movies. However i'm now looking for something more specific, I would love to know of any scenes where there's a young star before they hit the big time, dying a humble death in a sci-fi movie. I know it's a shot in the dark but you came up trumps last time!
Thanks
Francesca

[Fearless Freep]

Again, Johnny Depp (is he a star?) In "A Nightmare On Elm Street"

[Vermin Boy]

And Kevin Bacon in Friday the 13th.

[Dano]

Bill Paxton has come into a respectable movie career (though he's not quite a "star") after his death in 1985's Aliens.  Also Paul Reiser died in that (again, not really a "star" in the "Cover-of-People" sense).

[Susan]

Speaking of Bill Paxton, does anyone remember if he actually died "Terminator"  or just got his clothes stolen? It's been awhile and I don't own the movie. (and btw he'll always be "chet" to me!)

[Dano]

I thought it was a big tough biker type who got his clothes stolen in Terminator.  I don't recall Paxton being in that one.

[Dano]

Oh yeah!  Sharon Stone in Total Recall!  Duh.

[J.R.]

Brad Pitt was taken out by a power drill in the cheap slasher Cutting Class.

Kelly Hu (from the Scorpion King and the upcoming X-Men 2, so she might be a star) was stabbed with a shard of broken glass in Friday The 13th Part VIII.

And Bill Paxton was in the Terminator.

[Vermin Boy]

It was actually a blue-haired punk, played by a young Bill Paxton (and personally, I can't take anything the guy's in seriously after seeing him as the perverted redneck bastard in The Dark Backward).

[AndyC]

That's right. The biker was actually in Terminator 2, and Paxton in the original.

I agree with Susan, that Paxton will always be Chet Donnelly. That was the first role I saw him in, and most of his roles have been basically variations on the same pushy loudmouth. He's very good at it. I don't think I saw him play anything else until Twister. Even then, I was waiting for him to ask Helen Hunt if he could butter her muffin.

Weird Science rules.

[raj]

On the flip side, Ralph Waite (John Walton!) dies in Crash & Burn, a circa 1990 Full Moon video.  Ouch.

[Vermin Boy]

I realize that raising a dead thread is generally frowned upon, but I just found this out and had to post it: In Mars Attacks!, the illfated Billy Glen Norris (redneck brother of our misfit hero) is none other than a young Jack Black!

[Ash]

Whenever I think of Bill Paxton, I think of "True Lies" where he plays the sleazy used car salesman.  
"And a pair of titties!  Make ya wanna stand up and beg for buttermilk.  Ass like a 10 year old boy!"  
WHAM!!!  as Arnie slams him with the backside of his fist!

"Please mister, I'm not worth a bullet.  I'm nothing!  I'm navel lint!  I have to lie to women to get laid.  I...I don't score much.  I've got a little dick, it's pathetic!  Oh Oh God!  Would a spy pee himself huh!!??"  You're gonna shoot me!  As soon as I turn my back you're gonna shoot me!"
"Get lost dips**t!"
BANG BANG BANG!!!!

[Neville]

Robert Englund before playing Freddy Krueger died in the trashy space opera "Galaxy of terror" (1981).