The queen of screams herself, Jamie Lee Curtis, attended Fantastic Fest in 2018 to celebrate the release of Halloween. So why not celebrate one of the most influential women in horror and the reason we have the “final girl” trope?!
While Fantastic Fest as a whole is a genre festival, horror does thrive there. So premiering the new Halloween there was a pretty fantastic choice. The 2018 take on the Michael Myers slasher films brought Curtis back into the world. Curtis plays Laurie Strode, a young girl who was terrorized by the serial killer Michael Myers one halloween night back in the 70s.
The John Carpenter film has ushered in multiple spin-offs, lore that is a bit wishy washy, and a general fear of William Shatner masks all thanks to the 1978 film that Curtis starred in. Her connection to the Halloween movies has also led to some of the funniest moments in pop culture history. May we never forget Curtis heading to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills where her Halloween co-star, Kyle Richards, kept making comments about how they knew each other.
But Curtis taking the new trilogy to Fantastic Fest is such an iconic move. The new movies, which started with that 2018 film, were all directed by David Gordon Green. After the release of Halloween, fans were treated with Halloween Kills and then the trilogy completed with the 2022 film Halloween Ends which, of course, had a pretty epic showdown between Michael and Laurie (even if they weren’t siblings again).
What makes Jamie Lee Curtis such an amazing person is watching as she promotes her films. She knows how to get people to come out and see her work and taking an iconic franchise like the Halloween movies to Austin for Fantastic Fest is definitely the best move!
You can see the rest of our celebrations for the women who have made Fantastic Fest amazing here!
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