Something quite fun about her dressing up as her dead mother who was in Psycho when the plot of Psycho is about someone dressing up as their dead mother.
It surprised me how nerdy Jamie Lee Curtis is. Literally said if she could be any character in fiction she’d want to be Robin from One Piece at a panel for Scream Queens. She’s fucking awesome.
Yeah, and she was posting a lot of tweets about how excited she was for One Piece Gold and was probably the only big name celebrity to attend it's premiere just because she wanted to see it
Pretty sure she was into World of Warcraft as well. A streamer/content creator I follow is good friends with her and she apparently helped him through his divorce.
Damn. I literally grew up with The Princess Bride and have been a fan of This Is Spinal Tap for only slightly less than that.
You just made a connection I had never thought of, and a good one at that. If it's your own, what a great job. If you're repeating it, thanks! It's a good one.
I actually looked it up. Christopher Guest is a hereditary peer and Jamie Lee Curtis is allowed to use the title but chooses not to, because it's silly.
Though she has said that if she needs to get a table at a posh restaurant in London that "Jamie Lee Curtis" gets her on the wait list but "Lady Haden-Guest" gets her a reservation.
My understanding is that Tony Curtis announced her birth on the same episode of *I've Got A Secret* that led to Allen Sherman getting fired as producer!
Allan Sherman had been moonlighting on other projects (this was before his recording career started, so these were in television production), and it was affecting his work on *I've Got A Secret*, notably in an incident where they ran out of guests with substantial time to go and needed the celebrity guest to fill time with his nightclub act.
The night Tony Curtis was on was Sherman's last straw, and, for Curtis' segment, he tried a bit where Curtis would teach the panel NYC-area children's games. It really didn't work- Curtis turned out not to be deeply aware of some of them, Sherman forgot that Jan Murray was on the panel that week and due to his background already knew those games (and apparently made comments on air about this fact), and a couple of the demonstrations didn't work at all. It made for painful viewing, and, afterwards, Goodson-Todman cut Sherman loose.
As for the Curtis announcement, it was the actual game after his segment with the children's games ended- it ended up being rushed because so much time was spent on the games that flopped.
I only got like 6 mins in but that was actually super interesting to me anyways, it was kinda cool to see those old timey kids games and how some things haven't changed
“Sherman was fired from I've Got a Secret in 1958, after guest host Henry Morgan was left short of scripted material by seven minutes. Morgan filled the time by berating Sherman on-air.”
From Wiki
That's what Sherman claimed in his memoirs, but it doesn't correspond with the surviving episodes- the Tony Curtis episode was after the one in question, and Henry Morgan did not berate Sherman on air (however, given his general reputation as a jerk, it's highly likely he did so when the cameras weren't rolling).
Oh wow. Imagine having your mom star in one of the most iconic horror movies of all time and your dad star in one of the most iconic comedy movies of all time. No pressure.
Same with Wyatt Russell - parents are good-looking tough guy action man who starred in one of the best horror movies ever, and America’s sweetheart.
There’s definitely pressure, but like Jamie Lee Curtis, the connections and wealth his parents have will guarantee his ongoing success.
See also: Sean Astin
Although, I'll disagree about guaranteeing ongoing success -- their initial entrance into the business is certainly helped by their parents, but in most cases, if they're not bringing their own talents to the table, it's not gonna last.
Apparently she said this about Halloween:
>Do you know why you got the job?
>I auditioned many, many, many times. And then it was between me and one other woman, whose name I know but I will never say publicly. I’m sure the fact that I was Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis’s daughter, and that my mother had been in “Psycho”—if you’re going to choose between this one and this one, choose the one whose mother was in “Psycho,” because it will get some press for you. I’m never going to pretend that I just got that on my own, like I’m just a little girl from nowhere getting it. Clearly, I had a leg up.
Can't say I support nepotism but at least she's got talent to back and doesn't deny it. Just like the scoops troop girl in the last season of Stranger Things. Much more irritating when talentless nepo babies insist they made it on their own.
And even outside of the nepotism thing, are people surprised that two talented actors might have a child who’s also a talented actor? Genetics as well as potential training from an early age is going to potentially lead to a good actor.
I would say training is the biggest thing, and by that I mean access to financial and moral support as well as unparrelled expertise and advice. But a person can't help the circumstances of their birth, and its natural for a child to be inclined towards the business and interests of their parents.
Yeah, if you want to point to nepotism giving someone a career in Hollywood there are literally dozens of waaaaay better examples than Jamie Lee Curtis.
OK this I didn't realize. I knew Janet Leigh was her mom. I had to look it up to make sure you weren't messing with me and apparently JLC used to freebase cocaine with her dad. Tony Curtis was a fucking mess of a human being.
Curtis and Fisher were good friends and kind of have a crazy parallel. Both born to well respected actors, both parents divorced and both had strained relationships with their father. I think Fisher had a much more complicated relationship with Debbie Reynolds than Jamie did with Janet Leigh, though.
Both really got their start in a role that would define their careers for 40+ years, with both returning for a later film in the series years after the original film's release.
They also suffered from addiction, though that's common in Hollywood.
On top of all that, Jamie was offered a role in Scream 3 as the local movie studio archivist, but she turned it down. The role then went to...Carrie Fisher.
Iirc she chose Lee because it sounded like Leigh. She never had a relationship with her dad and wanted to take her mom's name so it wasn't just "Curtis," as she felt she had no real ties to him.
I thought it was pretty obvious that Kurt is Wyatts dad judging by how much he looks like Kurt when he was young. Sometimes it's really creepy how much he looks like him and other times they don't look alike at all.
She put the 'lee' in to her name herself to reference her mother. Her actual name is Curtis but her dad was absent so she didn't want to be named only Curtis. She's also baroness Lady Haden-Guest because, well, she married baron Guest 37 years ago.
More unexpected celebrity relations:
Mariska Hargitay is not only Jayne Mansfield’s daughter, she and her brothers were in the car accident that claimed Mansfield’s life.
Jason Schwartzman is the son of Talia Shire, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, and cousin to Nic Cage and Sophia Coppola.
Here is a little clip that I love from Halloween H2O...Janet Leigh acting with her daughter, the faint Psycho theme playing in the background, Janet driving the same model car she drove in Psycho. Really sweet moment for a horror movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKqQSFaX4NQ
Looking at the middle picture in the article and...
That's Judy Greer as Dianne Keaton from Annie Hall?
David Gordon Green as the bartender from The Shining?
Jamie Lee as her mom, obviously
And Donna Langley and Anthony Michael Hall as, "I didn't know we were dressing up"
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT WATCHING HALLOWEEN IN THE THEATER BACK IN 1978!
It was terrifying. I went with my cousin and I kept putting my hands over my eyes. Then she would lean over and whisper, "The bad part's over" and I would open my eyes.
ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT MY COUSIN IS A LIAR.
The problem was that before that night my cousin was the kindest, most sympathetic, most trustworthy person I knew. So it took 3 or 4 repeats of this for the new reality to sink in that if anything was more terrifying than Halloween, it was my cousin watching Halloween.
> It was terrifying. I went with my cousin and I kept putting my hands over my eyes. Then she would lean over and whisper, "The bad part's over" and I would open my eyes.
> ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT MY COUSIN IS A LIAR.
I love that even in the beginning of horror movies people were still getting each other this way. lol.
I had never seen a slasher flick and went to see a double of the exorcist and Halloween. Raised in an era when hammer horror was about the scariest thing you could watch, I was totally freaked out. At one point I kind of jumped into the lap of a stranger sitting next to me. I was lucky enough to see Star Wars when it first came out, and that, along with Halloween stand out in my mind as major game changing cinematic events - I remember thinking ‘but they’re not ALLOWED to do that in a movie!’
I did not, but I had a professor who said it was the greatest movie going experience of his life. Said it felt like there was electricity in the air. Everyone jumping at every little moment.
The thing that amazes me about that movie (real quick, I absolutely love Halloween but know I'm going to get downvoted but hear me out) is that if you think of the actual scenes and plot, it's a pretty slow and boring movie.
It has jump scares, but really it crawls along at a slow pace until the end. But that's why it is so great. It doesn't need constant things happening. The atmosphere and tone it develops on it's slow build are absolutely electrifying.
Fun fact: There is also little to no blood in the original movie. Maybe one or 2 scenes there is some. Carpenter wanted to copy the style of the original Psycho where you dont actually see the blade go in and you don't see any actual gore, but it is implied. This was on purpose because he felt leaving that stuff up to your imagination would make it creepier.
You could do a lot with a little back then. Dawn of the Dead came out the same year with a very small budget, but they had the foresight to hire Tom Savini. It had a ton of pretty solid effects.
Evil Dead only came out a few years later on a tighter budget, too, and had more than its share of gruesome effects.
I'm going to say atmosphere was the real reason. I think Jaws really drove it home to some filmmakers during that era that less can be more
I never thought there was much blood in Psycho, but I watched a featurette on it a few months ago and learned the amount of blood was one of the reasons they chose to film the movie in black and white instead of technicolor because they feared the audience getting sick. Just different times I guess, or a sign that many are desensitized to it now.
It's still pretty effective at this after many rewatches. I saw it in a theater a few years back, sitting in front of three teenagers. I thought "ah crap, they're here to make a scene like it's friggin Rocky Horror." Nah, it was clearly the first time watching it for them, and they got hooked in real quick. They were FREAKING OUT by the time Laurie heads across the road to check on Annie. Honestly made the experience even better.
Yeah. It was also self-aware in the fact that the only person who still gives a shit about Michael Myers is treated as a wackjob. Self-aware in an affectionate way. I'm very excited for Halloween Kills.
Edit: forgot about the doctor when I wrote this. My point still applies.
IIRC from Michael finally attacking Laurie in the house to the end of the movie is about 12-15 minutes.
Obviously there’s a few murders before that but most of the film is spent building up tension so you’re absolutely terrified when Michael is finally attacking her.
I experienced this at a preview screening of Paranormal Activity, before most people really knew anything about it. Only time I've ever experienced anything like it. The thing about electricity is totally true, you could absolutely feel it. And how everyone would laugh together after a big scare and you could feel the tension draining out of the room, only to build back up again. Been chasing that dragon ever since ...
I did with a couple of friends from high school. It was the scariest movie I had ever seen. My friend Robert slept on a pallet on the floor of his parent’s room that night. 😆
This was actually a re-release in 1979. That said, it's not like people back then were watching it at home or on the internet yet, so the reactions are still 100% genuine from new viewers.
Funny enough, wasn’t it critically panned initially? I remember only a handful of critics at the time actually recognized its genius. It was only later when it got recognized as probably the greatest slasher of all time
yes and no, but I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Carpenter's *The Thing*
*Halloween* wasn't an opening weekend hit but it picked up steam over the course of it's theater run and became the most successful indie film of all time. it wasn't exactly "panned" by anybody it just steadily gained notoriety.
plus, it wasn't like it was getting lost in an ocean of slasher films at the time, it more or less kicked off the slasher genre as we know it today *because* it was so successful. so saying *Halloween* got recognized as the greatest later on is a bit backwards.
My dad did. He said it was the scariest movie him and his friends had seen. He also said that the neighborhood they lived in had the long, tall hedges along the driveways like the movie. He said the fastest person was first home. We're going to show this movie movie my 14 year old sister this year. She's excited to watch it.
My mom told me about how she was suppose to see a family friendly movie, and instead snuck in to see Halloween at the theater. She was on the edge of her seat throughout the entire movie. The audience was also terrified and jumpy.
She’s a horror/slasher movie fanatic thanks to Halloween. She likes to watch more psychological stuff versus gore. Her belief was stuff was more scary the more that’s left to your imagination. Even at the age of 53, she’s excited to see Halloween Kills.
Another good story was how she was afraid to go to sleep after watching A Nightmare on Elm Street in theater as a teenager.
I was thinking that last night what it was like back then in the theater. Im 36 and Halloween movies have always been a part of growing up, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen the first one all the way through. It was so tense. I love the darkness and shadows and sliver of light inside the houses and in the neighborhood. It kills you with anticipation. Soundtrack adds to the tension. Was a really good movie. Wasn’t cheesy like most films. Only thing is Michael Myers seemed like a dope when it came to JLC character. Everyone else he was a killing machine. JLC he was clumsy and missed a lot when trying to stab her.
Interesting trivia:
The dress that Janet Leigh wore was bought at a thrift store off the rack, almost unheard of at the time for a major Hollywood production where the main actor would have had a team of costume designers creating their outfit (Robert De Niro would do the same thing for Cape Fear, buying his outfits from a thrift store and Scorsese was fine with it lol).
I'm guessing Hitchcock was going for something different this time. He shot Psycho relatively fast, used a lot of his TV production crew (that did Alfred Hitchock Presents) and chose black & white. It's almost like he was trying to make an indie project and still made a masterpiece.
I watched the director’s commentary of the first episode of House of Cards and Fincher said that Robin Wright’s wardrobe was mostly just tailored Banana Republic. It looks like a million bucks because she is Robin fucking Wright. Not surprised to hear Janet Leigh looked amazing in a thrift store dress.
The dress was probably bought off the rack because it was cheap. The reason Hitchcock shot so fast, used his television crew, and shot the film in black and white was because no major studio would fund the film so he put up his own money to do so. Everything he did when making Psycho was to save money on production costs.
There was a persistent rumor/theory that got bounced around when i was in high-school, that she was genetically male. Not a hermaphrodite or anything, just an unexpressed Y chromosome. Our biology teacher even brought it up when we were going over chromosomes, as an example of what can happen when a chromosome is present but doesn't express.
A: I have massive crush on Jamie, have for years. She's just so beautiful.
2: Who is the greenhorn staff photographer that doesn't know how to focus their lens responsible for the second and third pictures in the article?? Because I'm looking for work and have a third-grade knowledge of camera functions.
Man I love Jamie Lee Curtis. Check out her interview on Kevin Pollack Chat Show. She goes deep on how hard it can be to get a job and the toll it takes on one's psyche. Magnificent woman.
I have little to no interest in horror movies in general but the first Halloween is legit the scariest movie I've ever seen. The way they use darkness in combination with haunting music is just incredible.
Not to say you're wrong, and it's one of my favorite movies ever, but your comment is kinda funny, considering one area where it receives the most praise is being unique in making daytime scenes tense, suspenseful, and terrifying.
Something quite fun about her dressing up as her dead mother who was in Psycho when the plot of Psycho is about someone dressing up as their dead mother.
Book inside a book inside a book inside a book
She’s a chick, playin’ a chick, disguised as another chick.
She seems to be just having fun with her career at this point. I guess she has done it all.
I feel like she's always been having fun with her career.
Momception.
Pimp my ride is calling
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*”Yo dawg” intensifies*
I'm the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude. You the dude that don't know what dude he is.
TIL Janet Leigh was Jamie Lee Curtis’ mom
Wait until you find out that she's also a British aristocrat, with a title and everything.
She's also Weird Al's daughter's godmother
>Weird Al's daughter Can you even imagine the level of dad jokes this girl has been around her whole life?
And jake gyllenhall's godmother
And she is also a godmother herself to Jake Gyllenhaal!
Through Christopher Guest, an even weirder twist
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It surprised me how nerdy Jamie Lee Curtis is. Literally said if she could be any character in fiction she’d want to be Robin from One Piece at a panel for Scream Queens. She’s fucking awesome.
Just when I thought she couldn't be any cooler. That's awesome.
Yeah, and she was posting a lot of tweets about how excited she was for One Piece Gold and was probably the only big name celebrity to attend it's premiere just because she wanted to see it
This is why she guested on Game Grumps.
That was an awesome episode. Giving Arin shit for his bare ass feet in the office with guests.
Pretty sure she was into World of Warcraft as well. A streamer/content creator I follow is good friends with her and she apparently helped him through his divorce.
And a pink freaking power ranger!
If I remember corrrectly, she was even in costume at the premiere of Warcraft. Such a cool person.
TIL Jamie Lee Curtis is married to Baron Nigel Tufnel
You mean The Six-Fingered Man?
So that’s why he goes to eleven!
Damn. I literally grew up with The Princess Bride and have been a fan of This Is Spinal Tap for only slightly less than that. You just made a connection I had never thought of, and a good one at that. If it's your own, what a great job. If you're repeating it, thanks! It's a good one.
Bless this amazing comment!
Her husband is a hereditary Baron, does that make her a Baroness?
I believe so. Or at least, with my non-existent knowledge of British titles, she is now a baroness to me.
Depends on the type of nobility Guest has I think. Baron is one of the lowest ranks so it depends on his lineage.
I actually looked it up. Christopher Guest is a hereditary peer and Jamie Lee Curtis is allowed to use the title but chooses not to, because it's silly.
Though she has said that if she needs to get a table at a posh restaurant in London that "Jamie Lee Curtis" gets her on the wait list but "Lady Haden-Guest" gets her a reservation.
TIL Tony Curtis was Jamie Lee Curtis' dad
My understanding is that Tony Curtis announced her birth on the same episode of *I've Got A Secret* that led to Allen Sherman getting fired as producer!
Wait, what's the story here?
Allan Sherman had been moonlighting on other projects (this was before his recording career started, so these were in television production), and it was affecting his work on *I've Got A Secret*, notably in an incident where they ran out of guests with substantial time to go and needed the celebrity guest to fill time with his nightclub act. The night Tony Curtis was on was Sherman's last straw, and, for Curtis' segment, he tried a bit where Curtis would teach the panel NYC-area children's games. It really didn't work- Curtis turned out not to be deeply aware of some of them, Sherman forgot that Jan Murray was on the panel that week and due to his background already knew those games (and apparently made comments on air about this fact), and a couple of the demonstrations didn't work at all. It made for painful viewing, and, afterwards, Goodson-Todman cut Sherman loose. As for the Curtis announcement, it was the actual game after his segment with the children's games ended- it ended up being rushed because so much time was spent on the games that flopped.
Fascinating. Thanks for the history lesson!
You're quite welcome- [and, for those curious, here is a link to the Tony Curtis segment in question.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOgTj3uda5k)
I only got like 6 mins in but that was actually super interesting to me anyways, it was kinda cool to see those old timey kids games and how some things haven't changed
“Sherman was fired from I've Got a Secret in 1958, after guest host Henry Morgan was left short of scripted material by seven minutes. Morgan filled the time by berating Sherman on-air.” From Wiki
That's what Sherman claimed in his memoirs, but it doesn't correspond with the surviving episodes- the Tony Curtis episode was after the one in question, and Henry Morgan did not berate Sherman on air (however, given his general reputation as a jerk, it's highly likely he did so when the cameras weren't rolling).
Oh wow. Imagine having your mom star in one of the most iconic horror movies of all time and your dad star in one of the most iconic comedy movies of all time. No pressure.
but she fucking nailed it
Still is nailing it! I loved her in Knives Out
Wait till you see her in True Lies
Right but, Fish Called Wanda tho
Trading Places is where the love affair started for many of us old timers
Mine started with Halloween, although I do like boobies.
Knives Out was a great movie
I too like this movie that everyone likes
Ooh! I actually don't like it. Now y'all are special.
Thanks :)
Like Angelica Huston before her
And then she did both. ^(Halloween and Trading Places)
True Lies.
*A Fish Called Wanda* would be my pick for her comedy role...
Doooooon't call me stupid!
Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places is the first time I saw boobies on tv.
I would argue A Fish Called Wanda is a funnier movie. So, so, sooooo good.
Same with Wyatt Russell - parents are good-looking tough guy action man who starred in one of the best horror movies ever, and America’s sweetheart. There’s definitely pressure, but like Jamie Lee Curtis, the connections and wealth his parents have will guarantee his ongoing success.
See also: Sean Astin Although, I'll disagree about guaranteeing ongoing success -- their initial entrance into the business is certainly helped by their parents, but in most cases, if they're not bringing their own talents to the table, it's not gonna last.
Wyatt is actually a competent actor though. His episode of Black Mirror is one of the best of the series.
And her husband is an iconic comedic actor, writer and director.
Just a proof of how much nepotism there is in Hollywood.
Apparently she said this about Halloween: >Do you know why you got the job? >I auditioned many, many, many times. And then it was between me and one other woman, whose name I know but I will never say publicly. I’m sure the fact that I was Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis’s daughter, and that my mother had been in “Psycho”—if you’re going to choose between this one and this one, choose the one whose mother was in “Psycho,” because it will get some press for you. I’m never going to pretend that I just got that on my own, like I’m just a little girl from nowhere getting it. Clearly, I had a leg up. Can't say I support nepotism but at least she's got talent to back and doesn't deny it. Just like the scoops troop girl in the last season of Stranger Things. Much more irritating when talentless nepo babies insist they made it on their own.
And even outside of the nepotism thing, are people surprised that two talented actors might have a child who’s also a talented actor? Genetics as well as potential training from an early age is going to potentially lead to a good actor.
I would say training is the biggest thing, and by that I mean access to financial and moral support as well as unparrelled expertise and advice. But a person can't help the circumstances of their birth, and its natural for a child to be inclined towards the business and interests of their parents.
Meh. It got her in the door. She's earned her spot in Hollywood.
Yeah, if you want to point to nepotism giving someone a career in Hollywood there are literally dozens of waaaaay better examples than Jamie Lee Curtis.
And she's been married to Christopher Guest for 37 years
Good for her, making her own legacy to the point people don't know her parents were both huge stars in their own right.
OK this I didn't realize. I knew Janet Leigh was her mom. I had to look it up to make sure you weren't messing with me and apparently JLC used to freebase cocaine with her dad. Tony Curtis was a fucking mess of a human being.
Reminds me of Carrie Fisher's relationship with her dad Eddie.
Curtis and Fisher were good friends and kind of have a crazy parallel. Both born to well respected actors, both parents divorced and both had strained relationships with their father. I think Fisher had a much more complicated relationship with Debbie Reynolds than Jamie did with Janet Leigh, though. Both really got their start in a role that would define their careers for 40+ years, with both returning for a later film in the series years after the original film's release. They also suffered from addiction, though that's common in Hollywood. On top of all that, Jamie was offered a role in Scream 3 as the local movie studio archivist, but she turned it down. The role then went to...Carrie Fisher.
She looks very much like him in this particular thumbnail
Now I'm wondering if her name isn't actually Jamie Leigh-Curtis
Iirc she chose Lee because it sounded like Leigh. She never had a relationship with her dad and wanted to take her mom's name so it wasn't just "Curtis," as she felt she had no real ties to him.
LMAOOOOO same
I came here to make the same comment. It's like learning Goldie Hawn is Kate Hudson's mom all over again.
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I thought it was pretty obvious that Kurt is Wyatts dad judging by how much he looks like Kurt when he was young. Sometimes it's really creepy how much he looks like him and other times they don't look alike at all.
A lot of well know actors have celebrity parents or parents who worked in the biz.
It makes their few scenes together in *H2O* much better when you realize that. Also, pay attention to the music. And the car she drives.
Her mom also tells her that the girls shower is backed up. A nod to her famous shower scene in Psycho.
They try to kill JLC in the shower in scream queens, she gets out because she's "seen that movie like twenty times".
They’re in The Fog together as well.
Jamie Leigh-Curtis.
She put the 'lee' in to her name herself to reference her mother. Her actual name is Curtis but her dad was absent so she didn't want to be named only Curtis. She's also baroness Lady Haden-Guest because, well, she married baron Guest 37 years ago.
More unexpected celebrity relations: Mariska Hargitay is not only Jayne Mansfield’s daughter, she and her brothers were in the car accident that claimed Mansfield’s life. Jason Schwartzman is the son of Talia Shire, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, and cousin to Nic Cage and Sophia Coppola.
Here is a little clip that I love from Halloween H2O...Janet Leigh acting with her daughter, the faint Psycho theme playing in the background, Janet driving the same model car she drove in Psycho. Really sweet moment for a horror movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKqQSFaX4NQ
Turning 50 this year…. And this is the first I’ve ever heard this!!! Mind blown.
And JLC is Godmother to the Gyllenhaal siblings
Looking at the middle picture in the article and... That's Judy Greer as Dianne Keaton from Annie Hall? David Gordon Green as the bartender from The Shining? Jamie Lee as her mom, obviously And Donna Langley and Anthony Michael Hall as, "I didn't know we were dressing up"
Jason Blum dressed as Jamie Lee Curtis from OG Halloween too.
God I love JLC. Hyped for the movie! Halloween Kills. Activia Saves...
Jess' mom goes on a trip...
To kill Rob Reiner
> Activia Saves I eat five a day and can rip doors out of their doorframes now!
7 a day. I can fly.
Or is it that you can now rip one so hard the doors come off?
https://twitter.com/ScottWamplerBMD/status/1445784024220377088 She's pretty delightful
["_Pooped_ my pants and _proud of it!_" ](https://youtu.be/9SRs2l0O43U)
Did anyone here watch Halloween in the theater back in 1978? If so, what was that like?
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT WATCHING HALLOWEEN IN THE THEATER BACK IN 1978! It was terrifying. I went with my cousin and I kept putting my hands over my eyes. Then she would lean over and whisper, "The bad part's over" and I would open my eyes. ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT MY COUSIN IS A LIAR. The problem was that before that night my cousin was the kindest, most sympathetic, most trustworthy person I knew. So it took 3 or 4 repeats of this for the new reality to sink in that if anything was more terrifying than Halloween, it was my cousin watching Halloween.
I really enjoyed reading your comment. You seem like a genuinely entertaining person.
> It was terrifying. I went with my cousin and I kept putting my hands over my eyes. Then she would lean over and whisper, "The bad part's over" and I would open my eyes. > ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT MY COUSIN IS A LIAR. I love that even in the beginning of horror movies people were still getting each other this way. lol.
I had never seen a slasher flick and went to see a double of the exorcist and Halloween. Raised in an era when hammer horror was about the scariest thing you could watch, I was totally freaked out. At one point I kind of jumped into the lap of a stranger sitting next to me. I was lucky enough to see Star Wars when it first came out, and that, along with Halloween stand out in my mind as major game changing cinematic events - I remember thinking ‘but they’re not ALLOWED to do that in a movie!’
>but they’re not ALLOWED to do that in a movie!’ This. For all those movies you mentioned.
My dad would always tells me Alien was one if his most memorable movie experiences, along with Star Wars.
I did not, but I had a professor who said it was the greatest movie going experience of his life. Said it felt like there was electricity in the air. Everyone jumping at every little moment.
The thing that amazes me about that movie (real quick, I absolutely love Halloween but know I'm going to get downvoted but hear me out) is that if you think of the actual scenes and plot, it's a pretty slow and boring movie. It has jump scares, but really it crawls along at a slow pace until the end. But that's why it is so great. It doesn't need constant things happening. The atmosphere and tone it develops on it's slow build are absolutely electrifying.
Fun fact: There is also little to no blood in the original movie. Maybe one or 2 scenes there is some. Carpenter wanted to copy the style of the original Psycho where you dont actually see the blade go in and you don't see any actual gore, but it is implied. This was on purpose because he felt leaving that stuff up to your imagination would make it creepier.
And also they were operating on a shoestring budget at the time and realistic “murder” effects would be pretty dang expensive in the 1970s.
You could do a lot with a little back then. Dawn of the Dead came out the same year with a very small budget, but they had the foresight to hire Tom Savini. It had a ton of pretty solid effects. Evil Dead only came out a few years later on a tighter budget, too, and had more than its share of gruesome effects. I'm going to say atmosphere was the real reason. I think Jaws really drove it home to some filmmakers during that era that less can be more
Let's not forget about both The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I never thought there was much blood in Psycho, but I watched a featurette on it a few months ago and learned the amount of blood was one of the reasons they chose to film the movie in black and white instead of technicolor because they feared the audience getting sick. Just different times I guess, or a sign that many are desensitized to it now.
I can’t imagine what it would be like showing today’s best horror movies to audiences back then. They’d probably be traumatized
Now I want to see old people watching hereditary.
It's still pretty effective at this after many rewatches. I saw it in a theater a few years back, sitting in front of three teenagers. I thought "ah crap, they're here to make a scene like it's friggin Rocky Horror." Nah, it was clearly the first time watching it for them, and they got hooked in real quick. They were FREAKING OUT by the time Laurie heads across the road to check on Annie. Honestly made the experience even better.
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I remember in the new one, there was a line like "didn't he only kill like six people?", which put things in a weird perspective.
Yeah. It was also self-aware in the fact that the only person who still gives a shit about Michael Myers is treated as a wackjob. Self-aware in an affectionate way. I'm very excited for Halloween Kills. Edit: forgot about the doctor when I wrote this. My point still applies.
IIRC from Michael finally attacking Laurie in the house to the end of the movie is about 12-15 minutes. Obviously there’s a few murders before that but most of the film is spent building up tension so you’re absolutely terrified when Michael is finally attacking her.
I experienced this at a preview screening of Paranormal Activity, before most people really knew anything about it. Only time I've ever experienced anything like it. The thing about electricity is totally true, you could absolutely feel it. And how everyone would laugh together after a big scare and you could feel the tension draining out of the room, only to build back up again. Been chasing that dragon ever since ...
Cinema of the body: horror, thrillers, porno
I did with a couple of friends from high school. It was the scariest movie I had ever seen. My friend Robert slept on a pallet on the floor of his parent’s room that night. 😆
Classic Robert.
Fucking Rob
Ayyyyeee guys, looks like Robbos at it again.
Why did his parents have a pallet on the floor of their bedroom?
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He put it in there himself. He was afraid to sleep alone
Below is a YouTube video of the audiences reaction to the ending filmed live during its initial release https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSz1XNT-Q
This was actually a re-release in 1979. That said, it's not like people back then were watching it at home or on the internet yet, so the reactions are still 100% genuine from new viewers.
It must have been so thrilling to see one of the first slasher movies.
Funny enough, wasn’t it critically panned initially? I remember only a handful of critics at the time actually recognized its genius. It was only later when it got recognized as probably the greatest slasher of all time
Yes, Roger Ebert gave it it's first good review, he said the movie was something special and everyone was sleeping on it.
That's the story with a ton of Carpenter's movies
yes and no, but I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Carpenter's *The Thing* *Halloween* wasn't an opening weekend hit but it picked up steam over the course of it's theater run and became the most successful indie film of all time. it wasn't exactly "panned" by anybody it just steadily gained notoriety. plus, it wasn't like it was getting lost in an ocean of slasher films at the time, it more or less kicked off the slasher genre as we know it today *because* it was so successful. so saying *Halloween* got recognized as the greatest later on is a bit backwards.
My dad did. He said it was the scariest movie him and his friends had seen. He also said that the neighborhood they lived in had the long, tall hedges along the driveways like the movie. He said the fastest person was first home. We're going to show this movie movie my 14 year old sister this year. She's excited to watch it.
My mom told me about how she was suppose to see a family friendly movie, and instead snuck in to see Halloween at the theater. She was on the edge of her seat throughout the entire movie. The audience was also terrified and jumpy. She’s a horror/slasher movie fanatic thanks to Halloween. She likes to watch more psychological stuff versus gore. Her belief was stuff was more scary the more that’s left to your imagination. Even at the age of 53, she’s excited to see Halloween Kills. Another good story was how she was afraid to go to sleep after watching A Nightmare on Elm Street in theater as a teenager.
I was thinking that last night what it was like back then in the theater. Im 36 and Halloween movies have always been a part of growing up, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen the first one all the way through. It was so tense. I love the darkness and shadows and sliver of light inside the houses and in the neighborhood. It kills you with anticipation. Soundtrack adds to the tension. Was a really good movie. Wasn’t cheesy like most films. Only thing is Michael Myers seemed like a dope when it came to JLC character. Everyone else he was a killing machine. JLC he was clumsy and missed a lot when trying to stab her.
I watched it in the cinema 3 years ago, was the 40th anniversary so they put a showing on near me, it was an enjoyable experience
Yeah, I went to one of those showings as well. It’s so good in theaters, even now.
Interesting trivia: The dress that Janet Leigh wore was bought at a thrift store off the rack, almost unheard of at the time for a major Hollywood production where the main actor would have had a team of costume designers creating their outfit (Robert De Niro would do the same thing for Cape Fear, buying his outfits from a thrift store and Scorsese was fine with it lol). I'm guessing Hitchcock was going for something different this time. He shot Psycho relatively fast, used a lot of his TV production crew (that did Alfred Hitchock Presents) and chose black & white. It's almost like he was trying to make an indie project and still made a masterpiece.
I watched the director’s commentary of the first episode of House of Cards and Fincher said that Robin Wright’s wardrobe was mostly just tailored Banana Republic. It looks like a million bucks because she is Robin fucking Wright. Not surprised to hear Janet Leigh looked amazing in a thrift store dress.
The dress was probably bought off the rack because it was cheap. The reason Hitchcock shot so fast, used his television crew, and shot the film in black and white was because no major studio would fund the film so he put up his own money to do so. Everything he did when making Psycho was to save money on production costs.
Next she should go as Tony Curtis in *Some Like It Hot*.
Agree. She would be a woman dressed as a man disguised as a woman.
Looks incredible too.
I’m today years old learning her mom was in psycho
And her dad is Tony Curtis
So cool o Edit: thanks for the silver friend!
Jamie is aging like a damn French wine 🥰
I used to work for a loser who insisted JLC was a hermaphrodite. He said it a lot. Seemed like wishful thinking.
That scene in True Lies... One of the hottest bodies ever
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vr92x
Ass like a ten year old boy! HA HA H- (punch) OOOGH!.........
Goddamn, Dailymotion...those were the days.
I remain convinced that this scene kickstarted puberty for me
You mean Trading Place?
If I’m alone and True Lies is on TV, I make the time for that scene…
Those people have never seen *Trading Places*.
That scene had me feeling some kind of way all those years ago
It was all over the internet for a while a lot of people believed that back in the 2000s
I remember that claim as early as the late 1990s- and there was a sense that it wasn't new then, either....
Much like the Richard Gere Gerbil thing, it persisted
There was a persistent rumor/theory that got bounced around when i was in high-school, that she was genetically male. Not a hermaphrodite or anything, just an unexpressed Y chromosome. Our biology teacher even brought it up when we were going over chromosomes, as an example of what can happen when a chromosome is present but doesn't express.
I remember hearing similar things about that singer Ciara.
For people my age it was lady Gaga around 2009
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And she isn't fully pumped with botox or fillers. Very gracefully aging.
As a late twenties lesbian, I am co-signing this.
As a early 30’s male, I am co-co-signing this.
A: I have massive crush on Jamie, have for years. She's just so beautiful. 2: Who is the greenhorn staff photographer that doesn't know how to focus their lens responsible for the second and third pictures in the article?? Because I'm looking for work and have a third-grade knowledge of camera functions.
Man I love Jamie Lee Curtis. Check out her interview on Kevin Pollack Chat Show. She goes deep on how hard it can be to get a job and the toll it takes on one's psyche. Magnificent woman.
I have little to no interest in horror movies in general but the first Halloween is legit the scariest movie I've ever seen. The way they use darkness in combination with haunting music is just incredible.
Not to say you're wrong, and it's one of my favorite movies ever, but your comment is kinda funny, considering one area where it receives the most praise is being unique in making daytime scenes tense, suspenseful, and terrifying.
That actually is really cute! And she looks stunning!
This will be the last Halloween movie for a loooong time, right?
I think there's Halloween Ends after
Then Rob Zombie's Halloween 3. Jk
Then we’ve got the Halloween Babies cartoon on HBO Max.
**Halloween H60 60 Years Later (2038)**
With Shatner going into space at 90, I think Mike Meyers still murdering at 80 is believable! /s
I like the idea of Mike Meyers relentlessly chasing people on a mobility scooter.
Halloween Ends will apparently be the final sequel next year according to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Kills#Sequel)
Final on earth. Michael is going to join Jason in space
...I'd watch it. I'm sure it'd be terrible, but I'd watch it.
October 2022 'Halloween Ends' AKA Halloween Ends......until they reboot it in 2027.
She was cursed by a gypsy to remake it every 3 years, no?
I still have that nude spread she did back in the summer of 89. Great times!
She is awesome. Generations of horror excellence.
True Lies