In this episode of The Tom Hanks 80's Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan find a quite spot to strike as they discuss He Knows You're Alone.
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Tom Hanks Timeline:
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, California. His parents divorce when he’s 5 years old, and he was raised by his father, a chef named Amos, with his older brother and sister.
It’s now 1974, Hanks is in junior college in Hayward, California. He transfers into the theater program at California State University in Sacramento, after seeing Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh.
In 1977, he’s recruited to the summer session of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood Ohio. He won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in 1978, for his portrayal of Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
By 1979, Hanks dropped out of college. He’s done 3 seasons with the Great Lakes festival, and he decides to move to New York City, where he lands a small part in He Knows You’re Alone.
After the films release in 1980, Hanks is spotted by a talent scout for ABC and he’s cast in the series Bosom Buddies as one of two advertising executives who dress in drag in order to rent an apartment in an all-female building.
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The concept for "He Knows You're Alone" was developed in 1979 after director Armand Mastroianni pitched an idea for a horror film to producer Edgar Lansbury, based on the urban legend of "The Hook," in which a young couple in a parked car are attacked by a murderer. When Mastroianni realized that Lansbury had little interest in the project during the middle of the pitch, he spontaneously suggested that the aforementioned plot be a self-referential film-within-a-film. This idea piqued Lansbury's interest, after which Mastroianni commissioned Scott Parker to write a screenplay for a slasher film that began with an opening sequence in which two characters watch a horror film in a movie theater, during which one of them is murdered by a serial killer. The film was written under several working titles, including Shriek, The Uninvited, and Blood Wedding.
The film was written, produced, and filmed over a four month period between August and December of 1979. Actual principal photography took place over a fifteen day period in December of 1979, hence the very wintery looking scenes in the film.
The film was originally slated to be shot in Houston, Texas, under executive producer Samuel Z. Arkoff (who had executive-produced other releases from MGM, including The Amityville Horror the previous year), but Arkoff was unable to finance the film.
The film's climax was shot at the historic Seaview Hospital in Staten Island. According to director Mastroianni, the entire production from script to final edit took only six months to complete. The shoot was fast-paced and demanding on both the cast and crew, who had to relocate between various locations on a daily basis in order to shoot the entire script. Filming was completed days before Christmas 1979.
The film marked the first movie appearance of actor Tom Hanks, who played a relatively small part. In fact, it was said that Hanks' character was originally written to be killed off with Nancy's character, but because the filmmakers liked him so much, they omitted filming his death scene for the film. This is also the first movie appearance of Dana Barron.
It has been credited for being one of the first horror films inspired by the success of Halloween (1978) and shares a number of similarities with the previous hit.
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The original music score was composed by Alexander and Mark Peskanov.
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