Jamie Lee Curtis calls 'Halloween Ends' a 'cathartic' conclusion for the franchise - and its 'final daughter'

Jamie Lee Curtis finally understands the legacy of the Final Girl trope.

The iconic Scream Queen ends John Carpenter's legendary "Halloween" franchise with the final installment in David Gordon Green's "Halloween Ends" trilogy, out October 14th. Curtis will play Laurie Strode one last time after tracking Haddonfield serial killer Michael Myers for 44 years. across 13 movies.

"It was deeply moving and cathartic," Curtis said of his split from the character. “I mean, when you call it a last girl – I never really understood how important that name was until I made this last movie. And now I really get it. And I think you will be very happy."

Filming for "Halloween Ends" wrapped in February 2022, with Curtis calling the last day of production "bittersweet" in an Instagram post. "I made some great friends and collaborated with wonderful artists on all three of those movies and today my role in the movie is over and with it the END for me of this trilogy," Curtis continued. "I love this team and this cast and will miss you all. We can't wait for fans to see the movie."

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Kyle Richards, Andi Matichak and James Jude Courtney, who plays Myers, will reprise their respective roles for the end of the franchise.

Writer/director Green previously hinted that 'Halloween Ends' will be "a much more intimate movie" than his previous installments, 2018's 'Halloween' and 2021's 'Halloween Kills'.

"There's not a lot of games in it, there's not a lot of retro spirit and joy," Green explained. "It's kind of a coming-of-age movie, and it's a very different tone. And that's what got me excited is that the three chapters I was in were very different from each other. They're all here to honor Carpenter, but they don't have to just emulate him."

"Halloween Kills" star Judy Greer, who played Curtis' on-screen daughter, told IndieWire that Green's trilogy reflected real social issues in each film.

"It's crazy that in the first one we accidentally made a movie about the MeToo movement, about a woman you don't believe," Greer said. "We did ['Halloween Kills'] at the end of 2019, and it was supposed to come out in 2020, and we pushed because of the pandemic. And then there was a riot in our nation's capital! We didn't know that. was going on when we made this movie about the mob mentality and what happens when you become part of the mob mentality. It's crazy that that's the case."

Greer added, "I think it's really beautiful that you can do a movie like this, you can do a genre movie [like this]. You're like, 'Oh, that's is a horror movie, but it can be meaningful at the same time. Why not? And I think that's why people love it."

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