8 Great Acting Performances That Outshone The Horror Movie

Two years ago in 2018, die-hard fans of the Halloween franchise squealed in excitement when it was finally revealed that Jamie Lee-Curtis was returning to the beloved horror series to reprise her role of the original scream queen, Laurie Strode.

But wait. Hold on just a second. Didn’t Laurie Strode fall to her peril from the roof of the mental asylum in the first 15 minutes of 2002’s Halloween Resurrection?

Well, unfortunately, this creative decision from Resurrection’s writers does indeed go down in horror history as the most unforgivable on-screen death of the 21st century. Perhaps ever. Yet thankfully, 16 years later David Gordon Green rightfully decided 2018’s Halloween would become a direct sequel to 1978’s original premise only, ultimately meaning the character of Laurie Strode could be resurrected herself.

The truth is, Jamie Lee-Curtis should never have signed the dotted line of her Halloween Resurrection contract. Especially seeing as page ten of her script included her untimely death. And especially seeing as the new sequel’s plot was to wipe out the satisfying beheading finale of 1998’s H20. Oh, and let’s not forget that Halloween Resurrection as a whole is a crass, styleless, and almost laughable sequel that really should never have happened.

That’s why Lee-Curtis’s involvement was such a wasted opportunity to take the story in another new exciting direction. Instead, we got a horrible plot about a bunch of irritating and unlikeable egomaniacs taking part in a stupid online reality-show.

Fortunately, Laurie Strode’s most recent return to Haddonfield in 2018 made up for lost time and saw Jamie Lee-Curtis give her career-best performance as a damaged PTSD-suffering Laurie - proving just how much her acting chops were brutally butchered in Halloween Resurrection. Quite literally.