10 Horror Movie Actors Who HATED Their Own Performances

3. Tom Hanks - He Knows You're Alone

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Released in 1980, He Knows You're Alone is formulaic a slasher movie as you can get. Clearly jumping on the slasher bandwagon that had been kickstarted with John Carpenter's legendary Halloween, this Armand Mastroianni-directed effort features a paper-thin plot that's painfully predictable.

For Tom Hanks, he had the supporting role of Elliot - a psychology student - in He Knows You're Alone.

Elliot was that small a character in the film, his fate wasn't ever actually in question, with him surviving the movie and not even getting close to being in the crosshairs of the picture's bride-killing protagonist, Ray.

During an appearance on The David Letterman Show, Hanks mocked his involvement in He Knows You're Alone, with this early career role one he'd clearly rather forget.

"I played a guy in this movie... I always said if this was Gilligan's Island, I would play the professor. It was that bad."

Hanks would go on to laugh off the movie to Letterman, poking fun at the cliched tropes of the slasher subgenre and talking about how, at that point, the vast majority of his career was not made up of "big-time films".

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