He Knows You’re Alone: Scream Factory brings Tom Hanks slasher to Blu-ray

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Today, Tom Hanks is one of the world's most beloved Oscar winners, but back in 1980 he was just getting his career started – and he earned his first screen credit with a small role in the slasher movie He Knows You're Alone (watch it HERE), which reached theatres two months before Hanks made a guest appearance on The Love Boat and three months before his sitcom Bosom Buddies started airing. Now Scream Factory has announced that they're bringing He Knows You're Alone to Blu-ray on May 18th.

Special features have not yet been announced, but copies of the He Knows You're Alone Blu-ray can already be pre-ordered from Scream Factory.

Directed by Armand Mastroianni from a screenplay by Scott Parker, the film has the following synopsis: 

Now you see him. Now you don't. The face of a killer appears out of the darkness and just as quickly disappears. A young woman has an eerie feeling someone is stalking her. Another beauty steps into a shower … and a bathroom door handle slowly turns. We're in slasher-flick territory – and also in a rare realm of film history, because screen icon Tom Hanks makes his movie debut in this shocker.

The up-and-coming legend plays the brief supporting role of Elliot, a psych major whose musings about the nature of fear reinforce the tone of this twisted tale about a sicko who targets brides-to-be … and a detective who scrambles to stop the carnage. Wedded bliss can be very short-lived when He Knows You're Alone.

Hanks' co-stars included Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Lewis Arlt, Patsy Pease, James Rebhorn, Dana Barron, Paul Gleason, and Russell Todd (who was in Friday the 13th Part 2 the following year).

If you like '80s slashers, He Knows You're Alone is a good one to add to your collection.