Tag: Jamie Lee Curtis


  • Halloween Franchise Ranking: From 13 to 1

    John Carpenter and Debra Hill had no idea back in 1978 that they were changing the horror genre. They set out to make a scary movie about babysitters being stalked on Halloween night. They weren’t thinking about sequels – let alone 12 of them. They weren’t thinking about Corey Cunningham’s awful night of babysitting, heavy…

  • The Scream Queens of the ’80s and What We Owe Them

    The success of Halloween in 1978 and Jamie Lee Curtis’s performance therein, coming near the end of a decade of new ground broken in the themes, content, and storytelling approaches in horror (and film in general), marked the beginning of a surge in the popularity of scream queens and a concomitant change in the portrayal…