Kevin Bacon’s 10 Meatiest Horror and Sci-Fi Roles

Kevin Bacon’s The Bondsman hits Prime Video next week. While we wait to watch our favorite dancing rebel play a bondsman brought back from the dead to chase escaped demons into hell—that premise is killer, and the trailer is very promising—we’re looking back at our favorite degrees of Bacon in horror, sci-fi, and fantasy movies across his long career to date. Friday the 13th (1980) A lot of actors get their start in slasher movies, but only a select few can say they got gruesome on-screen deaths in one of the genre’s most influential and enduring titles. Bacon’s character isn’t a huge part of Friday the 13th’s story, but his arrow-pierced throat—just one of Tom Savini’s standout effects for the film—offers its own moment of horror-history glory. Wonder if we’ll see him cameo (as a different character, of course) in Peacock and A24’s Crystal Lake series? Tremors (1990) While many of Bacon’s much-loved, post-Friday the 13th ‘80s titles don’t fit on a genre list (unless Footloose coun ... Read full article.