Why do horror actors rarely go mainstream?
Recently watched fairly a few horror movies for Halloween, and most of the actors are unheard of. While fairly famous within the horror genre, these actors never make it past the horror genre and I wonder why that is? I have a theory that especially in the past, a horror movie actor, if she was a woman, had to be fine with doing nudity and perhaps due to puritan ethics, this limited their chances of ever playing anything but a promiscuous girl in future roles. But why do you think this is the case?
There are notable exceptions of course, like Johnny Depp and Kevin Bacon, but for the most part I am right.