Kevin Bacon has nearly 100 acting credits to his name, and over the last 42 years he has been in major films of various genres. So when I saw an interview with him recently and he said that the image he most often gets asked to autograph is of his death scene in FRIDAY THE 13TH, I thought that was pretty cool. The most popular image Bacon gets presented with isn't from ANIMAL HOUSE, FOOTLOOSE, TREMORS, APOLLO 13, WILD THINGS, MYSTIC RIVER, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, or The Following. It's from FRIDAY THE 13TH. As a huge fan of F13, that put a smile on my face.
Unfortunately, signing so many copies of that image isn't putting a smile on Bacon's face. While speaking with Entertainment Weekly to promote his latest horror film YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT, Bacon looked back at some of the other genre movies he has made, including F13. He reminisced about what it was like filming his death scene, then he said,
I’m always horrified by the fact that, when it comes to autograph hounds, that’s probably the number one picture that I'm asked to sign. Me, with blood coming out of my mouth and an arrow through my neck. You know, I’m a pretty easygoing guy. After a while, it just gets to you. You’re like, really, do I have to sign another picture of me dead?"
It's a bummer that seeing the image of his F13 death is getting to Bacon, because to me that image is a celebration of a great special effect in an awesome movie, not something for the actor to feel weird about.
Bacon told EW that he is a fan of horror:
It is a genre that I really like. I like movies that have life or death stakes. I would say that, when it comes to the genre, I'm not so interested in slasher horror where teens in sweatpants are getting their throats cut. I really have always loved things like DON'T LOOK NOW and ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE SHINING and THE EXORCIST and on and on and on."
The actor also briefly discussed FLATLINERS, TREMORS, STIR OF ECHOES, and HOLLOW MAN, and of course the discussion ended with talk of YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT.
YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT is now available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.
In a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room), Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning … and travel with you.
In this terrifying, mind-twisting tale, a father fights desperately to save his family from a beautiful home that refuses to let them leave. Theo Conroy (Bacon) is a successful middle-aged man whose marriage to his much younger actress wife, Susanna (Seyfried) is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past. In an effort to repair their relationship, Theo and Susanna book a vacation at a stunning, remote modern home in the Welsh countryside for themselves and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex). What at first seems like a perfect retreat distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna have revealed, even to each other.
FRIDAY THE 13TH is on Amazon Prime Video, too.