All Kevin Bacon Horror Movies Ranked
All Kevin Bacon Horror Movies, Ranked
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Kevin Bacon got his start with Friday the 13th and was last seen in You Should Have Left, so how do his horrors rank in comparison with each other?
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Kevin Bacon is a veritable veteran of the horror genre, but how do his many scary movies rank in comparison to one another, from Friday the 13th to You Should Have Left? Released in 1980, Friday the 13th was a cheap, Giallo-inspired slasher movie designed to cash in on the then-recent success of John Carpenter’s sleeper Halloween. Cheesy, uneven, and boasting an absurdly silly killer reveal, Friday the 13th was not a critical success upon release.
However, Friday the 13th was a major financial hit, and soon spawned a slasher franchise that remains one of the most enduring in horror cinema history. Introducing viewers to mute madman Jason Voorhees is not all the famed horror was notable for. The movie also marked the moment many viewers met future star Kevin Bacon for the first time.
Despite what many erroneously believe, Bacon’s brief Friday the 13th role was not actually his big-screen debut (that came in the form of 1978’s Animal House). However, it was one of the actor’s first notable roles and one that helped propel him to leading man status a few years later with cult classic Footloose. Horror movies have always been a stepping stone for young actors looking to get some credits on their screen CV, but Bacon has made an impressive commitment to staying true to his roots throughout his subsequent decades as a leading man. Where the likes of Bradley Cooper left horror behind once mainstream fame came calling, Bacon has continued to act in the genre throughout his successful career – although the actor sometimes has had trouble picking out solid projects. Here’s how his many horror efforts rank in comparison with each other.
You Should Have Left (2020)
Released in 2020, You Should Have Left is Kevin Bacon’s most recent horror movie, and also unfortunately his weakest. Despite reuniting Bacon with his Stir of Echoes writer/director David Koepp, this scare-free effort takes elements of House of Leaves and The Shining but ends up being a muddled horror-thriller that is less than the sum of its parts. The trippy dream-house is admittedly impressive, looking like a set piece from one of A Nightmare On Elm Street’s more ambitious outings, but despite able support from a game Amanda Seyfried, it is hard to care about Bacon’s gormless protagonist. Adding insult to injury, Seyfried went on to explore similar territory more successfully later the same year with the underrated Things Heard and Seen.
The Darkness (2016)
A truly forgettable offering, 2016’s The Darkness avoids the bottom of the list as it is at least more cohesive than You Should Have Left. Despite coming from genre powerhouse Blumhouse Productions, The Darkness is a predictable supernatural horror marred by its PG-13 rating. Kevin Bacon and his family are plagued by a strange spirit after accidentally desecrating the Grand Canyon, but despite the presence of talented thespians like Jennifer Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, and Aliens villain Paul Reiser, this is a flat, uninvolving, and thrill free horror.
Flatliners (1990)
Those who want to know what lies beyond life could do better than consulting 1990’s Flatliners, a predictable sci-fi horror whose pacing, unfortunately, lives up to the movie’s name. Despite boasting the talents of the late, great Joel Schumacher in the director’s chair and a cast the includes Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Oliver Platt, Flatliners can’t make its tale of college students experimenting with intentionally reviving themselves from near-death experiences in search of a killer high feel original or urgent. Inexplicably, Flatliners did somehow earn itself a 2017 remake, which is equally drab but didn’t bring back Kevin Bacon in his supporting role as one of the feckless students.
Hollow Man (2000)
Before Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, Hollow Man attempted to marry the themes of technological innovation with toxic masculinity in a cautionary tale. However, Robocop director Paul Verhoeven failed to bring his usual brand of razor-sharp satire to this gory tale, which was a hit with audiences but flopped with critics. Kevin Bacon brings a campy brio to the part of Sebastian Crane, the titular scientist who discovers the key to invisibility and becomes a violent monster when he’s unable to revert. However, his spirited villainous turn is wasted on a movie that squanders a lot of potentially intriguing insights into the dark side of worshipping innovation at the cost of morality.
Stir Of Echoes (1999)
Unfortunately overshadowed upon release by The Sixth Sense, Stir of Echoes is a psychological thriller that sees Kevin Bacon’s troubled hero haunted by terrifying visions after undergoing hypnosis. Adapted from a horror story by author Richard Matheson, this twisty flick ends up in a more tragic and poignant place than many viewers might expect, and one that audiences sensitive to depictions of traumatic subject matter may prefer to avoid. That said, it is a thoughtful, moving, and often very scary character study and comfortably the most underrated of Bacon’s horror outings.
Tremors (1990)
A small-town monster movie, Tremors does not quite rank as Bacon’s best horror but it is a very close call. The story of Perfection, a small desert town besieged by subterranean monsters named Graboids, this gruesome and blackly comic creature horror movie harkens back to the sci-fi horrors of the ‘50s but adds a dose of tongue-in-cheek humor that is pure ‘80s. It is one of the least scary “horror” comedies ever made, but Bacon is undeniably charming as the good old boy hero and the story is a funny, fast-paced thrill ride from start to finish.
Friday The 13th (1980)
It may not feature much screen time for the franchise’s most notable creation – masked killer Jason Voorhees – but thanks to its influence on the slasher subgenre alone, Friday the 13th remains Bacon’s best horror movie so far. Fast-paced and tenser than many fans give it credit for, the original Friday the 13th is scarier than its sequels and features less self-referential humor and despite the silly twist, the movie works well as a whodunit for much of its lean runtime. Not only that, but with an arrowhead through the bed (and neck), Kevin Bacon’s short-lived Friday the 13th hero has the dubious honor of earning one of the franchise’s first legendary deaths.
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