Jamie Lee Curtis In ‘Halloween’ Franchise: How Many Movies She’s Been In & Her Future After ‘Halloween Ends’

• Jamie Lee Curtis has played “final girl” Laurie Strode crossed 4 decades.
• Halloween Ends is acceptable to bring the franchise to a close.
• The iconic shriek queen has appeared (in 1 mode oregon another) successful nary less than 8 Halloween films.

Michael Myers hasn’t seen the past of Jamie Lee Curtis…yet. As her longtime quality Laurie Strode prepares to look disconnected against the famed slasher yet again successful Halloween Ends, fans are wondering conscionable how galore times she’s played the iconic, genre-defining “final girl” successful the franchise. Here’s our rundown of each clip she’s played the tenacious babysitter, from John Carpenter‘s 1978 classic, each the mode up to the last installment, acceptable to deed theaters connected Friday, October 14.

John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)

Jamie Lee Curtis successful ‘Halloween’ (Courtesy Everett Collection)

Jamie defined an full genre erstwhile she took connected the babysitting occupation from hellhole successful 1978. As Laurie Strode, Jamie fought hard to carve retired a abstraction successful fearfulness history, and she did a formidable job. When Michael Myers breaks escaped from the asylum and returns to fictional Haddonfield, Illinois connected Halloween night, helium comes look to look with a foe whose volition to past is destined to torture him for decades to come.

The relentless masked slasher hunts down and kills disconnected Laurie’s friends 1 by one, yet losing retired successful his last conflict against the ferocious teen who is virtually hellhole bent connected protecting the children she’s determination to babysit. Try arsenic helium might, helium can’t termination Laurie, and falls disconnected a balcony aft being changeable by psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Of course, helium escapes into the inky achromatic of Halloween night, to termination again and again.

Jamie is known arsenic 1 of the archetypal women to carve retired the relation of the “final girl” successful the strangely beloved fearfulness trope. According to Fandom, manager Carpenter formed her arsenic a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary fearfulness flick Psycho, which of people starred her mother, Janet Leigh. Jamie was reportedly terrified she would beryllium fto spell from the role. Instead, conscionable similar her mom, she was catapulted into movie history.

Halloween Extended Edition/TV Cut (1980)

Jamie’s pumpkin and weapon gig was truly gaining steam. In 1981, she virtually revisited the archetypal movie for an extended chopped that would beryllium aired connected television. Per Fandom, she had already chopped her hairsbreadth abbreviated and had to deterioration a wig for continuity. The storyline remained mostly the same, but respective additions were made successful bid to marque up for the edits NBC’s Standards and Practices Department demanded. Of course, the all-consuming “Shape” was there, too.

Halloween II (1981)

Jamie Lee Curtis successful ‘HALLOWEEN II,’ (Courtesy Everett Collection)

It didn’t instrumentality agelong for Halloween fever to instrumentality a choky hold, and it was lone a mates of years earlier a sequel hit. Both Jamie Lee and manager John Carpenter returned for the bloody sequel arsenic the decennary turned, though Carpenter lone changeable constricted scenes, with Rick Rosenthal helming the bulk of the movie. Taking spot successful the contiguous aftermath of the archetypal film, Laurie is rushed to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and there, arsenic a patient, endures different gory circular of stalking by the deranged killer. It was a creatively terrifying hold of the archetypal movie and cemented the franchise arsenic classic. Laurie, of course, volition unrecorded for different round. Jamie was 22 erstwhile she made the contiguous instrumentality to Haddonfield.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

The Halloween franchise was a runaway bid by 1982, and it was lone picking up steam. Though Jamie didn’t prima successful the wayward plotted movie, sharp-eared fans cognize she appeared successful a dependable cameo arsenic the Curfew Announcer/Telephone Operator. Since the flick wasn’t really related to the archetypal storyline, and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, it’s not mostly considered a portion of the Halloween Jamie is known for.

Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)

Jamie Lee Curtis and Chris Durand arsenic Michael Myers successful Halloween H20, 1998. (Courtesy Everett Collection)

After a sizeable cooling disconnected play for some The Shape and Jamie, Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later made its debut implicit a decennary and a fractional later. The modernized mentation had Laurie returning arsenic a backstage schoolhouse dean with a downright sexy pixie chopped and appearing alongside Josh Hartnett and Michelle Williams, among others. More importantly, H20 marked her quality successful a fearfulness movie alongside her ma Janet, who played Norma Watson. Jamie starred arsenic Laurie Strode/Keri Tate (witness protection, naturally), and the movie revived the franchise, and the archetypal Myers storyline, successful a large bloody way.

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Jamie Lee Curtis appears successful ‘Halloween: Resurrection’ successful 2002 (Courtesy Everett Collection)

By 2002, a full caller procreation had discovered the delicious thrill of the Michael Myers/Laurie Strode hunt. Helmed by Rick Rosenthal and sprinkled with a small supermodel and popstar magic (Tyra Banks and Busta Rhymes, anyone?) this fearfulness flick proved that this bid wasn’t going anyplace anytime soon. Jamie, for her part, continued to clasp down the franchise with her teeth-gritting, unkillable strength. In this meaty sequel, Michael famously travels backmost to Haddonfield to wreak havoc connected the formed of a world show. 

Halloween (2018)

Jamie Lee Curtis slays successful the 2018 ‘Halloween’ (Courtesy Everett Collection)

Another decennary and a fractional passed earlier Jamie was acceptable to instrumentality to the relation of a lifetime. In the meantime, Scout Taylor-Compton and Danielle Harris tried their hands astatine the relation of Laurie successful different Halloween films– but Jamie was ever destined to return. Named simply Halloween, the movie would reset and update the iconic storyline with archetypal elements and motorboat it into a trilogy that would yet wrapper up with Halloween Ends — the highly anticipated finale acceptable to his theaters connected Friday, October 14. By now, Laurie has a girl of her own, Karen, played passim the trilogy by Judy Greer. John Carpenter served arsenic an enforcement director, truthful his genius manus played a ample portion successful the occurrence of the nonstop sequel, produced by Universal Pictures — the location of the archetypal film.

Halloween Kills (2021)

Judy Greer, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Andi Matichak successful ‘Halloween Kills’ successful 2021. (Courtesy Everett Collection)

Taking a cue from Halloween II, Halloween Kills plowed consecutive done a pandemic to prime close up wherever the 2018 movie near off. This spell around, Laurie spends the amended portion of the movie successful a infirmary furniture portion a vigilante mob forms, determined to instrumentality Haddonfield back. But it each goes oh, truthful terribly wrong, successful the expansive contented of Michael Myers. Infused with plentifulness of lingua successful feature societal commentary, the movie did its champion to support the franchise alive, though it does consciousness similar a emblematic mediate installment.

Halloween Ends (2022)

Jamie Lee Curtis and James Jude Courtney successful 2022’s ‘Halloween Ends.’ (Courtesy Everett Collection)

Directed by David Gordon Green, who helmed the last 3 films for immoderate choky continuity, Halloween Ends aims to instrumentality the past bloody forty years to a chilling climax and extremity it for good. So where, then, does that permission our hero, the beloved Final Girl? According to SFX Magazine, she won’t altogether regularisation retired a return. “I was sitting successful the nonstop spot I americium sitting close present erstwhile my telephone rang, and it was Jake Gyllenhaal,” she reportedly told SFX (via GamesRadar) successful its Halloween Ends screen contented this month. “I picked up the telephone and helium said, ‘Hey Jame, my person David Gordon Green’ – who helium had conscionable worked with connected the movie Stronger – ‘would similar to speech to you astir a Halloween movie.’ That was successful 2017, successful the summer. The past happening I thought 5 years agone that I would beryllium doing would beryllium a Halloween movie.”

Jamie continued, “And present I am, having present completed 3 of them with a fantastic originative radical of people. That has not lone been satisfying for maine personally and creatively, but it has launched maine creatively into a full different world. I person a originative beingness now, due to the fact that of the Halloween movie, and the success. I present person a concern with Jason Blum astatine Blumhouse, I person a accumulation company, I’ve written a fearfulness movie that I volition direct, I americium producing tv series, I americium buying books. All of that was the past happening I thought I would beryllium doing 5 years ago. So to accidental ne'er is stupid.”

But realistically, successful different comments, Jamie thinks this is the end. “I request to present chopped her escaped and fto her unrecorded successful the minds and hearts of the fans that person supported her,” she told Entertainment Weekly in an October 11 report. “I present get to spell disconnected and bash my ain thing.”