HALLOWEEN 2018 First Look Photo: Jamie Lee Curtis As Laurie Strode

Photo Credit: Andrew Eccles/Universal Pictures © 2017 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Before Linda Hamilton’s “Sarah Connor,” before Sigourney Weaver’s “Ellen Ripley,” before Angelina Jolie’s “Lara Croft,” there was Jamie Lee Curtis’ horror heroine Laurie Strode. Battling pure evil Michael Myers, Strode was one of the first female characters that young women could see not as the victim, but as the strong, never-give-up survivor. Keeping her wits about her in John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 classic, HALLOWEEN was Curtis’ feature film debut and launched her career as a “scream queen” horror star.

The final line “It was the boogeyman” still invokes goosebumps.

Universal Pictures has released this first image from the upcoming HALLOWEEN movie – due in theaters Friday, October 19, 2018, forty years after the original film was released on October 25, 1978.

Official synopsis:

 Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Master of horror John Carpenter will executive produce and serve as creative consultant on this film, joining forces with cinema’s current leading producer of horror, Jason Blum (Get Out, Split, The Purge, Paranormal Activity). Inspired by Carpenter’s classic, filmmakers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride crafted a story that carves a new path from the events in the landmark 1978 film, and Green also directs.

HALLOWEEN will be produced by Malek Akkad, whose Trancas International Films has produced the HALLOWEEN series since its inception. Green and McBride will executive produce under their Rough House Pictures banner.

HALLOWEEN will be distributed worldwide by Universal Pictures.

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