Still slaying it
Here’s a look back at Laurie Strode’s many previous appearances
After 40 years of sequels, reboots and revisionist plot lines, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to scare tomorrow with ‘Halloween’, a reboot of the horror classic that started her Hollywood career
The scream queen. It’s a title that’s been used time and time again in horror movies. The damsel in distress often has to fight back and become her own hero — and Laurie Strode is the template.
As originated in the Halloween franchise by Jamie Lee Curtis, Strode was the babysitter with a fighting spirit who had to fend off a sometimes supernatural menace-in-a-William-Shatner-mask killer named Michael Myers.
The John Carpenter-created franchise reveres Strode and Myers so much that it has continued to bring back both characters, whether they had been killed off in previous films or not.
Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode for the fifth time in 2018’s Halloween, opening in the UAE tomorrow. However, despite her long and storied history with the franchise, the newest Halloween takes a fresh approach that ignores the previous sequels and instead serves as a direct follow-up to the original 1978 film. In this version, Myers has been imprisoned in a mental institution for 40 years, and Strode has been waiting... diligently preparing for his inevitable return.
Ahead of the release of the latest Halloween, here’s a look back at Laurie Strode’s many previous appearances, and how the character survived — or didn’t.