Scream Queen Legend And The Final Girl!
Could it be anybody else? Would you expect anybody else? Of course the Final Girl and Scream Queen of all Scream Queens would be Jamie Lee Curtis! It’s Halloween for crying out loud! Curtis has appeared in multiple successful franchises, is the sole reason that the Halloween franchise has stayed alive for so long, and has been nominated for and won awards from MTV to Saturn to Fangoria to the People’s Choice Awards and the Primetime Emmy Awards. She has written children’s books, blogged for the Huffington Post, and has applied for two patents on inventions that she developed. She’s a true Renaissance woman and easily the most recognizable and most popular Scream Queen on this list.
Mrs. Curtis began her career with a small role on an episode of Quincy, M.E. in 1977. She made her film debut in the iconic horror film, Halloween, in 1978. She then appeared in a number of slasher films in quick succession from 1978 to 1981. Those films included The Fog, Prom Night, and Terror Train in 1980 followed by roles in Halloween II and Road Games in 1981. She also had a cameo as the voice on a speaker in Halloween III (1982). Curtis continued working in both film and television and still does so to this day. She has consistently appeared in television films, major motion pictures, and guest roles on television. She also starred in three television series, Operation: Petticoat, Anything But Love, and Scream Queens.
Some of Curtis’ most popular and well known roles outside of the horror genre include her performances in Trading Places (1983), True Lies (1994), Perfect (1985), My Girl (1991), Freaky Friday (2003), and Knives Out (2019). She has eighty-three credits currently on IMDb and that list will definitely continue to grow. I highly recommend checking out her work both in and outside of horror.
While she’s definitely been successful outside of horror and has had success in a number of different horror franchises, the one that put her on the map and the one that she has returned to a number of times is the Halloween franchise. The original film is considered a trailblazer in the genre and it produced multiple copycat films (including a few starring Curtis). Including her voice cameo in Halloween III, Curtis has appeared in a total of eight Halloween films: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), Halloween H20 (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), and the modern trilogy of Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022). She portrayed Laurie Strode in all of the films with the exception of Halloween III.
Jamie Lee Curtis is a full-fledged superstar. Her parents had amazing careers as well. Her father is Tony Curtis, who passed away in 2010, and her mother is Janet Leigh (a Scream Queen in her own right), who passed away in 2004. Both were very popular performers in their day Jamie Lee Curtis embraced her family’s legacy as an actress. It’s impossible to list all of her accomplishments in film and television on this post. She’s an amazing person.
Although she’s been in a ton of projects over the years, Jamie Lee Curtis will always be Laurie Strode to me. She’s one of the few actors to avoid being typecast and has become one of the most successful film stars of all time as a result.
Happy Halloween! This concludes my Reign Of The Scream Queens posts for October’s Thirty-One Days O’Horror. I’ve already got plans for next year and I’ll give you a hint about them tomorrow. Starting in November I will go back to my traditional film, book, and action figure reviews along with two The Year Of KISS posts. As the holidays are now well underway, I want to thank each and everyone of you for checking out today’s post and all of the other posts that I’ve cranked out this year.
See you tomorrow!
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