10 Actors Who Hated Their Own Movie Death Scenes

You won't find many fans of the Halloween franchise who have much love for the eighth entry, Halloween: Resurrection.

Despite the previous film, Halloween H20, ending with Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) decapitating Michael Myers with an axe, the sequel reveals that Myers swapped his clothing with a paramedic, allowing Michael to live on and meaning that Laurie, well, murdered an innocent man.

Resurrection then opens with Laurie luring Michael to a psychiatric facility in order to finish him off for good, but after a moment of hesitation as she goes to confirm his identity, Michael stabs her and throws her off the roof to her death. Until 2018's Halloween retconned it all away, at least.

This all came about because Curtis actually wanted to end the series once and for all with H20's seemingly definitive decapitation, but franchise producer Moustapha Akkad had a clause that meant the writers couldn't kill Michael.

As a result, H20's writers had to think of a way that Michael could return in a sequel, and with a solution still not agreed mere weeks before shooting was set to begin, Curtis almost walked away from H20 entirely.

Once the paramedic explanation was decided upon, however, Curtis finally agreed to star in H20, as long as the film ended without providing any sequel-baiting hints as to Michael's survival.

With these movies being jettisoned from the continuity in recent years, Curtis has held nothing back about her feelings while making them, plainly confirming that her part in Resurrection was effectively an obligation due to the producers refusing to just let the series die with H20:

"The idea of [H20] was to kind of complete the story. But of course, with the Halloween movies there's a completion and then there's a 'completion'... I wanted a concrete ending. When Laurie has that axe in her hand, she is saying, 'It's you or me, because I'm not running anymore.' For me, that was a very important moment and a very important completion.

But of course what we learned, which by the way was not the original intention, was that it was not Michael, but an innocent man that she had killed. So what I said to them was, 'If this is in fact how we are going to conclude the movie, without the audience knowing, then I have to come back for one more movie, for a very short moment to conclude Laurie's story. I'm not going to make H20 ambiguous.'

That was for me the reason I was in Halloween: Resurrection. I thought H20 was the correct thing to do at the time, I liked it, then I had to be in that other thing just to conclude the story, and then I truly thought I would not return to this."

When Jamie Lee Curtis calls Halloween: Resurrection "that other thing," she is so perfectly capturing the feelings of every tortured Halloween fan.