Kevin Baconadmits he finds it “disconcerting” when horror fans ask him to autograph pictures of one of his most famous movie deaths. With over 80 films to his name, the star ofPrime Video’s current streaming seriesThe Bondsmanhas tackled just about every genre imaginable. Bacon’s horror movie footprint happens to be particularly large, however, as the actor has starred in several memorable fright flicks over the years.
Bacon’s latest projectThe Bondsmanindeed sees him back in the world of horror, this time in a Raimi-esque streaming series. On the feature film side, Bacon starred in 1990’s horror-comedyTremors, as well as the supernatural thrillerFlatliners. He returned to supernatural horror for 1999’sStir of Echoes, then played a variation on the Invisible Man in Paul Verhoeven’s 2000 sci-fi/horror filmHollow Man. In more recent years, Bacon has added his talents to the demonicThe Darkness, the psychological thrillerYou Should Have Leftand the Ty West-directed trilogy entryMaXXXine.
Bacon Says Horror Fans Ask Him To Sign Pictures Of His Friday The 13th Death Scene, And It’s Disconcerting
He Died Brutally In His Very First Horror Movie
Bacon’s first horror movie experience came in the originalFriday the 13th, and the actor says that all these years later, he still has fans asking him to sign pictures of his famous death scene from the 1980 classic. Bacon starred in Sean S. Cunningham’s seminal slasher as Jack Burrell, a young counselor at Camp Crystal Lake, who meets his end when Mrs. Voorhees stabs him through the neck with an arrow from below as he lies in bed, having just had sex with his girlfriend Marcie.
Bacon’sFriday the 13thdeath may have been filmed 45 years ago, but he can’t escape images of his bloody demise in the movie, as horror fans often ask him to autograph stills of the scene, an experience he finds “a little bit disconcerting.” Bacon talked recently about the inevitability of his character’s death in the film, which he characterizes as a morality play (viaVariety):
The thing is, is that back then, a lot of these kind of teen type slasher movies were morality tales. So if you had sex or you did drugs, you were gonna die violently. And I did both, like in, you know, succession. And so of course, I was gonna go.
Bacon then admitted that images of Jack’s death are still the pictures fans most frequently ask him to sign, and it causes him some discomfort:
Yeah, my death in the horror film world is famous. It’s so famous that unfortunately, you know, when it comes to signing autograph pictures, the number one picture that I sign is of me dead, which I always find a little bit disconcerting, when someone comes up and says, “Hey, would you sign this for me?” And it’s like [makes a funny dead person face].
Our Take On Bacon’s Friday The 13th Experience
The Franchise Continues To This Day
Bacon could not have known back in 1980 that his small role in a low-budget slasher would become an enduring part of horror movie history, so much so that, after nearly five decades, he would still be signing images of himself being brutally dispatched. But such is the legacy ofFriday the 13th, which launched one of the most successful of all horror franchises.
The unendingFriday the 13this indeed set to continue as a TV prequel, starring Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees, a younger version of the very same character who ended Jack Burrell’s life in the original movie. Bacon may be disconcerted by the way horror fans show their continued love for the slasher franchise by asking him to autograph gruesome images, but he should not be surprised by such encounters, given the loyalty horror fanatics have for their favorite genre.
