Jamie Lee Curtis hangs onto her bucket of blood for dear life in a new behind-the-scenes video from the 2018 film Halloween. The horror slasher movie was the 11th one in the Halloween film franchise, which is considered one of the most influential in the horror genre. Despite a tough original act to follow, the 2018 Halloween held its own and received generally positive reviews.
Curtis has starred in several Halloween movies as Laurie Strode; in the 2018 Halloween, she reprised the role to play a much older Laurie, who suffers from PTSD after being the only survivor in Michael Myers' 1978 massacre. In the recent Halloween film, Laurie Strode acts as the courageous hero who stands opposite of the delusional, vicious Michael Myers. Although the film ends with Laurie, her daughter, and granddaughter sealing Michael in a basement and setting the house ablaze, the post-credits reveal that Michael Myers has once again survived.
In an oddly charming BTS video on Instagram, Jamie Lee Curtis posts a quick video of her washing her hands in a bucket of blood. When co-star Andi Matichak, who plays Laurie's granddaughter Allyson Nelson, asks Curtis what she's doing, Curis laughs and replies, "Don't take my bucket!" You can catch the video below:
While Curtis may have posted the throwback in part to celebrate the upcoming Halloween season, her caption reveals that she also uploaded the video to lighten the mood around the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's most recent announcement. More specifically, the CDC recommended that no trick-or-treating take place this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Although Curtis admits that this will be a difficult change, she writes in her caption that there are still "creative ways" to make sure children have fun during Halloween. While none of Curtis' proposed recommendations, including virtual parades and a candy-based scavenger hunt, include a bucket of blood, it's still sweet of Curtis to try and bring humor into what will be a very different Halloween.
The 1978 Halloween film helped inspire an entire generation of horror films, with John Carpenter's iconic "fear meter" paving the way for making a movie as scary as possible. While Curtis' video with her bucket of blood probably ranks in the negatives on the fear meter, her performance within all the Halloween movies has been undeniably chilling. That being said, although the behind-the-scenes video is a good way to cap off September and move into October, one thing's for sure: 2020 is already scary enough without Michael Myers potentially showing up.
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