10 Most Drastic Character Transformations Between Movies

8. Laurie Strode - Halloween: Resurrection & Halloween (2018)

Last year's new Halloween gave franchise heroine Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) the Sarah Connor treatment by taking the slight-yet-resourceful series protagonist and transforming her into a hardened, battle-ready badass.

The last time fans saw Laurie prior to this was 2002's atrocious Halloween: Resurrection, where Laurie was holed up in a mental institution waiting to spring a trap on Michael.

Ignoring the fact that Laurie dies and the sequel has since been scrubbed from Halloween's continuity - along with all the other sequels, in fact - it gave audiences a skittish, frazzled Laurie who made a dumb decision (to hesitate killing Michael) and paid the ultimate price. Fans weren't happy, especially after Halloween H20 seemed to give both Laurie and Michael a satisfyingly final ending.

But Halloween 2018 smartly rewrote the book on Laurie, taking that idiot imposter we saw in Resurrection and making her once again the smart, scrappy fighter we met in 1978, but layering on four decades of weapons training and mental anguish.

Much like Sarah Connor, however, Old Laurie isn't just a badass caricature of her former self - it's clear her initial encounter with Michael has left her rattled with PTSD ever since.

However, she refuses to simply be a victim, and as she proves in the film's final battle, can hold her physical own against her nemesis just fine.

Now, cross your fingers she isn't screwed up (again) in the next two Halloween movies.