That was the story to tell.” Back in Warrior Mode? Laurie (centre) with daughter, Karen (Judy Greer, left) and granddaughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak, right) in a scene from the end of Halloween. So I was very happy that that movie… I wouldn’t have done it if that hadn’t been the story.
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That is my entire goal.’ And that was what the movie explored. She has lived a life of total isolation with one purpose and one purpose only: ‘He will come back.
When we finally meet her 40 years later, she has protected herself. She made no real contact with anybody and she ended up kind of in the gutter, and then she got catapulted back up into the game and banged around again. “One of those bangings, excuse the pun, resulted in the birth of a child,” continues Curtis. She brought a daughter into the world who she wasn’t fit to raise and who, while Karen loved her mother, felt an enormous amount of resentment towards her. What happened made Laurie single-minded and caused problems in her personal life. She bounced around life like a pinball in a pinball machine, she banged into things and people.” “What I loved about the 2018 movie was that it explored the idea that this brilliant high school valedictorian who would have gone to medical school, had her life shattered by a maniac, and that she didn’t get any mental help. “Well, I only have lived the trauma that has been written for me up till now,” says Curtis. Just how much trauma can one person take? If we’re going to ruminate, we’d guess that Laurie would be pretty aggravated to discover that not only has Michael now murdered her only daughter, and that she would also feel complicit in visiting that horror on her. You, as an audience goer, as a film lover, as a Halloween fan, get to ruminate and perseverate about what the future is for these people. “You know what,” begins Curtis, “I’m not going to suppose or ascribe to the third movie anything. A Pinball in a Pinball Machine Michael Myers in stalk mode. So, to help us unpack Laurie’s psychological state ahead of Green’s closing part of the new trilogy, we asked Jamie Lee Curtis herself how she feels Laurie would react to the discovery. We’re yet to discover how Laurie will react to the news that her daughter Karen has been slain by Myers, which we see at the close of Halloween Kills - we’ll learn more about this in the next film, Halloween Ends. Both have been forced to bear witness to Laurie’s mental fragility over the years and the impact of her brush with horror, and each has subsequently become drawn into the horror itself on Michael’s return to Haddonfield.
Not only has Laurie as a woman, suffered, but also that suffering has been visited upon both her daughter, Karen, and granddaughter, Allyson. First, in the discovery that she failed to extinguish Michael Myers after trapping him in the basement and setting fire to her house second, in the mayhem that ensues and third, in the damage her inability to move on and the Shape’s subsequent return has wreaked on two successive female generations of her descendants. Instead of providing closure to the unending cycle for Laurie, Halloween Kills keeps the wheel turning , heaping additional terror on Laurie Strode. Just as the after-effects haunt her, so does the Boogeyman as he returns to continue what he started. In the intervening decades, not only has Laurie Strode been unable to escape the emotional trauma of becoming personally caught up in and surviving one man’s killing spree, but she has also, it turns out, been unable to escape the man himself. Indeed, to quote Dr Loomis, by evil, purely and simply.ĭavid Gordon Green’s Halloween – a direct follow-up exploring the fallout of those events 40 years later – dealt with the effects of what happened that night on one woman’s psychological wellbeing. Forced to come of age in the worst way possible – by acknowledging, witnessing, and surviving the worst the world could throw at her – the tail end of Laurie’s formative years was shaped by horror.
Laurie Strode is a woman whose entire life since she was a teenager has been coloured by one fateful night in 1978. The following article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the ending of Halloween Kills.