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10) 0, 177 nn nrr ju ulJziLlz uV 1 9 Actors made a living dying in horror flix BY ETHAN SACKS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER THOUSANDS of actors have been stabbed, impaled, gutted, shot, decapitated or worse in the horror movies that resurface on television every Halloween. A handful like Johnny Depp who was unceremoniously sucked into his bed by Freddy Krueger in the first "Nightmare on Elm Street have gone from movies to the A-list. Some actors keep plugging away in the genre or on the convention circuit. Other slasher film casualties, however, have left the business entirely. In the spirit of the holiday, here are some of their not-so-harrowing tales of survival.

esacksnydailynews.com TAWNY MOYER, 'HALLOWEEN II' Getting stabbed in the back and then lifted off the ground for her death scene in "Halloween IT left Tawny Moyer badly bruised. "They had me in the harness that Mary Poppins wore in those flying scenes one crew member had to hoist me up," said Moyer, 48, who played Nurse Jill in the 1981 sequel. "It was so uncomfortable." I model-turned-actress took her role seriously visiting a hospital to learn how to deliver shots. Though she didn't get the opportunity to scream onscreen, she practiced her dying gasp in the mirror repeatedly. "After continuing to make television appearances for two decades, Moyer now paints and sells ceramics from her Hollywood home under her married name, T.

St. Espirit Her husband is actor Patrick St. Espirit, who starred in "United 93." Fans of "Halloween" may be disappointed to find that her painted tiles are not gory. "There's no horror, only romance and beauty," said Moyer. "That's the real me." i JUUE SULLIVAN rf i 4 tf Tawny Moyer said getting bumped off in "Halloween II" was hard work.

The city's haunted houses turn up the special effects MSUNMYNOW Daily News designer Bill Randolph finds laugh after death. 1 1'- NANCY KYES, 'HALLOWEEN' Director John Carpenter has killed off actress Nancy Kyes performing under the name Nancy Loo mis three times. Her most famous death scene came at the hands of the masked Michael Myers in "Halloween," after the killer pops up in the backseat of a fogged-up car to strangle her. "I've died in so many of John Carpenter's films after a while I said, 'John, I'd like to live in one of said Kyes, 47. But watching her murder scenes in movies like "The Fog" never spooked Kyes.

What frightens Kyes in real life is radiation, the prolonged exposure of which caused the death of her father, a career military man, in 1972. To come to terms with her loss years later, Kyes began sculpting. Her work has been exhibited in museums around Southern California, where she lives. Kyes said she kept her daughters, now 18 and 22, from seeing their mother's movies for as long as she could. "I don't like horror movies, they scare me too much," said Kyes.

"They're a lot more fun to make than to watch." Nancy Kyes, in "Halloween" death scene, and today (below). back was painstakingly attached to his shoulders. A stunt-man then jabbed the spear into the prosthetic back. "It took four hours for each take, and I was on my knees for those four hours," Randolph said. i 'I v.

r.i i BILL RANDOLPH, I 'FRIDAY THE 13TH PART II' As fright-film deaths go, Randolph's demise wasn't a bad way to go. In the 1981 sequel, Randolph played Jeffrey, the sex-crazed boyfriend of one of the counselors at Camp Crystal Lake. His death comes during a carnal act, when the killer uses a spear to turn him, his girlfriend and their mattress into a shish kebab. "It certainly was a fun way to die it's the ultimate birth control," Randolph said. Filming the scene though wasn't as enjoyable.

Randolph had to huddle in a hidden hole in the mattress while a fake bince giving up act- ing in the early '90s in j1 favor of steadier work, Randolph turned to graphic de- sign, which he dabbled s. in earlier to make posters for theater productions. Randolph, 53, is now special sections senior designer for the Daily News, where frightful moments have been thankfully few. JAMES KEIVOMBAtUf NEWS.