Today we are grateful for the great Jamie Lee Curtis, forever our scream queen Laurie Strode but also a gifted comedienne and dramatic actor. Writer, activist and Hollywood royalty, many happy returns to a wonderful woman.
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Halloween (1978)
Every kid in Haddonfield thinks this place is haunted. On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years in a sanitarium for the childhood murder of his older sister Judith. Now it’s October 30, 1978 and while being transferred for a court date 21-year-old Michael (Nick Castle) steals a car and escapes Smith’s Grove. He returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims, stalking and killing promiscuous teenage babysitters on Halloween night. He targets Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) while being hunted down by his psychiatrist Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasence) … I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up, because I realized that what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply… evil. John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s cunning screenplay dissects and reconstructs the slasher movie and places it in the suburbs where carefree teens drink and drug and play around unaware that their grisly deaths are imminent as light briefly illuminates the dangerous darkness. The movies’ first properly famous virginal Final Girl is immortalised by Curtis in her screen debut, cast in her mother Janet’s immense Psycho shadow. On the one hand this is a clever homage and pastiche of feminist and misogynistic tropes; on the other it’s a towering work of terror and one of the greatest horror films ever made, the granddaddy of them all. Dazzling. You’ve fooled them, haven’t you, Michael? But not me
The Fog (1980)
‘Tis the season to be spooky! The countdown to Halloween commences. See this wonderful John Carpenter film in its original widescreen version, not the pan/scan version so frequently used on television.  A beautifully shot ghost story, a genuinely eerie tale of a (literal) haunting revenge on the northern Californian coast one hundred years after a shipwreck. A logical conclusion to The Birds (1963), perhaps, featuring Hitchcock’s most memorable heroine, Janet Leigh and her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis.
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