10 Horror Movie Final Girls Who Suffered The Most

How much Halloween's Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has suffered depends on whether you include the now-discarded continuity of the original sequels.

We can all agree that Laurie endured an horrendous night fleeing The Shape in the original movie, while Halloween II revealed the terrible "truth" that Michael Myers is her brother, and Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers opted to kill Laurie off-screen after Jamie Lee Curtis decided not to return.

This tragically left her daughter Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) without a mother, who was then herself murdered by Michael years later.

These events were eventually wiped out or retconned by Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, however, which brought Laurie back as a traumatised alcoholic who faked her death.

Though the film seemed to end with Laurie finally killing Michael, we learn in the eighth movie, Halloween: Resurrection, that Michael switched places with an injured paramedic, so Laurie inadvertently decapitated an innocent man with an axe. Yikes.

Resurrection also committed the worst sin of all by killing Laurie off on-screen when Michael throws her off the roof of a psychiatric hospital.

The continuity was finally reset with 2018's Halloween, which while reinventing Laurie as a badass, grey-haired survivalist, also painted her as someone unable to move on from the trauma of Michael's rampage 40 years prior.

We learn that she's been divorced twice, is an alcoholic, and previously lost custody of her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) as a result. And to top it all off, in the recent Halloween Kills Laurie is helpless to save Karen from being slaughtered by Michael at the end of the movie.

Even if Laurie survives the upcoming Halloween Ends, she's been on one hell of a wild ride regardless of which continuity you're talking about.