Gentle spoilers beneath for the primary episode of The Bondsman for anybody who hasn’t but streamed it with an Amazon Prime subscription.
Like relative few actors, Kevin Bacon excels in actually each style. Award-earning drama? Examine. Motion-packed superhero flick? Examine. Cult-chasing thriller? The sample is obvious. Nothing makes ME happier, nonetheless, than when he embraces his darker facet for ‘80s classics like Friday the thirteenth and Tremors to the ever-underrated Stir of Echoes to his slimiest villain but in MaXXXine, after which some. Bacon’s again for probably his bloodiest function but in The Bondsman, and his gory first-scene loss of life would seemingly get a thumbs up from F13’s Pamela Voorhees.
Kevin Bacon talked to CinemaBlend forward of his Prime Video sequence’ April 3 premiere, and the lifelong horror nerd in me was solely too gleeful to ask about how his character Hub Halloran’s brutal throat slashing in The Bondsman in comparison with Jack Burrell’s iconic arrow-through-the-neck demise, our choose for finest loss of life within the first Friday the thirteenth. As seen within the video above, he shared a enjoyable story about how the shoestring finances meant there wasn’t room to get something mistaken, though issues did certainly go mistaken.
We have come a good distance since Friday the thirteenth. You recognize, for one factor, Friday the thirteenth was – each by way of its timing, but in addition by way of its price profile – extraordinarily sensible, results by Tom Savini. And within the case of that loss of life, I used to be on my knees beneath the mattress, and it was a prosthetic neck that had been constructed. And my head was again like this — [demonstrates] — which was not probably the most snug scenario.
Contemplating the final discomfort suffered by the younger actor, whose solely named function earlier than that was in Nationwide Lampoon’s Animal Home, I suppose it is a internet optimistic for his neck that director Sean Cunningham and his inventive crew did not have the cash to take a number of dozen cracks at getting the second ju-u-u-ust proper. Bacon continued:
That they had two folks beneath the mattress, one to poke the arrow and the opposite to pump the blood, and the hose broke on the blood pump. So I sort of hear them beneath the mattress going, ‘Oh shit.’ Someone begins blowing on it, which is why it sort of goes [makes glooping noises]. And, you recognize, they solely had one prosthetic, so it was very clear that we needed to get it proper the primary time.
Whereas I am going to admittedly by no means tire of seeing Jason swinging an occupied sleeping bag right into a tree, Kevin Bacon’s Friday the thirteenth loss of life will eternally be disturbing to witness. The mix of his eyes staring out into nothing and the unnatural blood glooping is profitable in a manner {that a} completely executed second may not have been.
Bacon talked to CinemaBlend in December 2024 about Friday the thirteenth followers will constantly strategy him at occasions and elsewhere with pictures from that exact scene for him to signal, even when he’d possibly choose ones the place he does not look fairly so tortured.
Kevin Bacon Says His Loss of life In The Bondsman Went Precisely The Manner An Actor Would Need It To
Though it does not sound like Kevin Bacon went via a ton of prep work for his first horror look, he went via the complete gamut of stunts, results, and make-up for The Bondsman, the place his bounty hunter Hub Halloran is killed by rival criminals after which resurrected by the Satan himself as a way to observe down demons to banish them again to hell. (Wait, what if that was what Jason Voorhees was doing within the F13 films?)
In any case, few sequences appeared rougher for the Loss of life Sentence vet than when Hub will get viciously murdered earlier than viewers are even conscious of what is taking place. Fortunately although, it wasn’t tough in any respect for Bacon himself. As he put it:
So when it got here to the prosthetic on The Bondsman, you recognize, a fantastic neck lower, I feel. I imply, I feel it is nice. And you recognize, carrying it for you, as an actor, you need prosthetics to look nice, however you additionally need as little time within the chair as attainable, and also you need them to be snug. And this was each of these issues. I did not should drink via a straw or something.
Would it not have been amusing to see Hub having to place a straw into his neck to drink within the premiere? Possibly, possibly not. However every thing about The Bondsman is a bloody blast regardless, with an A+ ensemble forged that features Jennifer Nettles, Beth Grant, Jolene Purdy, Maxwell Jenkins and Damon Herriman. (Seeing Bacon and Herriman on-screen collectively simply made me need Bacon to retroactively be added into Justified in some unspecified time in the future.)
All eight episodes of The Bondsman‘s first season can be found to stream now, so that you higher do it earlier than the mythological wind spirit that is huddled within the nook over there will get up and possesses you.