Kevin Bacon remembers his gruesome death scene in 'Friday the 13th'

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Friday the 13th" Kevin Bacon reminisced about his "classic horror death." "I smoke a joint and have sex with a girl and that means you're going to die in a slasher movie," he told Yahoo Entertainment. "They had a fake neck and chest prosthetic built," he recalled. "And then I was on my knees with my head through a hole in the bed." Bacon's character is then impaled through the neck in the movie, and it only took one take. Which was fortunate since they didn't have any back-up prosthetics.

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KEVIN POLOWY: Well, your entry into horror, "Friday the 13th," turned 40 this year. Give us your fondest memory from making that film.

KEVIN BACON: Well, I remember the moment when I die, which is a classic horror movie death, because I smoke a joint and have sex with a girl, and that means that you're going to die if you're in a slasher movie. They had a fake neck and chest prosthetic that was built, and then I was on my knees with my head through a hole in the bed, with my neck backwards. Very uncomfortable, had to stay there for a really, really long time. And there was only one neck and chest, so everything had to work perfectly. Someone was under the bed to push this arrow through. Somebody else was going to pump the blood. I had to have the right, you know -- I don't even know how you rehearse getting that look, you know. And they rolled camera, and the arrow came through the pump, broke on the blood pumper, so the special effects person grabbed it and started blowing through it. Someone saying, make your eyes roll back or whatever. And then it was done. And they got it in one take, and -- which was good because there was -- there was no second neck.

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KEVIN POLOWY: You're a true MVP of horror. What keeps bringing you back to the genre?

KEVIN BACON: It's very, very actable stuff. Right? It's like high stakes, life or death, emotional turmoil. It's challenging to try to modulate where a character's emotional life is going to be over the course of a screenplay. And people don't like to talk about this, but if you are doing a scary movie, and you're the lead in the scary movie, you know 75% of the time you're going to be scared. So what are those scared kind of looks and feelings going to look like? You know, you have to have variation. And I find that to be a great challenge.

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