Jamie Lee Curtis opens up about her final 'Halloween' movie

Jamie Lee Curtis, who for decades has played indomitable protagonist Laurie Strode in the "Halloween" movies about supernatural serial killer Michael Myers, says she became emotional on the final day of shooting what she expects to be her last film in the franchise.

"Well, you know, endings … are very difficult to do in a very satisfying way," Curtis, 63, told People magazine of the upcoming "Halloween Ends," in an article posted Wednesday. "The last shot [filmed] was [part of] a night shoot and I was in a car — it was a close-up of me in the car. And when we got out of the car, it was 4:30 in the morning and there was the picture of my face on the screen. And I realized that was the last image of Laurie Strode after 44 years of portraying her," she said.

"Isn't that amazing?" added the star of not only the "Halloween" films but of such hits as "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), "True Lies" (1994), "Freaky Friday" (2003) and "Knives Out" (2019). "And it felt very satisfying. I think people are going to lose their minds."

The trailer for "Halloween Ends," which with "Halloween" (2018) and "Halloween Kills" (2021) forms a sequel/reboot trilogy of the horror phenomenon that began with filmmaker John Carpenter's original 1978 "Halloween," dropped Tuesday. It shows a deadly pas de deux between Strode, now a grandmother who has seen three generations terrified by Myers, and the seemingly unkillable killer himself. She points a gun at him; he pushes her hand closer and closer to a sink's grinding garbage disposal; she grabs a large knife and stabs him through the hand.

"Come on, let's go," Strode taunts. “Come get me …”

Due out Oct. 14, the new movie takes place four years after the events of "Halloween Kills," with no sign of Myers in the interim. Strode, who is completing her memoir, now lives with her granddaughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak). But when a young babysitter, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), is accused of killing the boy in his care, "it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all," according to Universal Pictures' description.

"I saw it about two weeks ago," the film's producer, Jason Blum, 53, told ScreenRant.com in mid-June. "It's very good. I'm very excited. We have a few little things to fix on it and finish, but I'm very excited for our last 'Halloween' movie."

He parsed, "I didn't say it's gonna be the last 'Halloween' movie. It's our last 'Halloween' movie. We have no more rights to make any more 'Halloween,' so it goes back to Malek [Akkad, the current rights holder]. And what he does, only he knows, but we are done. And this is our last one, and I think people will be very happy."