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Laurie Strode first appears in the original Halloween movie. The 17-year-old Laurie (Curtis) has plans to babysit Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews) on Halloween night, 1978. However, throughout the day, she keeps seeing a mysterious masked man watching her wherever she goes; unbeknownst to her, this is Michael Myers (Nick Castle), an escaped mental patient who murdered his sister 15 years ago and has begun stalking her. As Laurie babysits Tommy, Myers kills her Best Friends, Annie (Nancy Loomis) and Lynda (P. J. Soles), in the house across the street. Growing concerned when they fail to call her, Laurie goes to investigate and sees their corpses laid out for her to find, before being attacked by Myers. Laurie defends herself by stabbing him with a knitting needle, a metal hanger, and his own knife, but nothing kills him. As he rises once again and begins to strangle her, Laurie is saved by Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), who shoots Myers off the balcony.

Halloween II picks up directly after the first movie, with Laurie Strode being taken to hospital. Upon learning who attacked her, Laurie asks "Why me?" After being sedated, Laurie has a dream in which she visits an older boy in hospital. Waking up, she begins to roam the hallways of the hospital until coming face to face with Myers, who has been killing his way through the hospital staff in search of her. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis is told that Michael is actually Laurie's biological brother; she was put up for adoption after the death of their parents, with the records sealed to protect the family. Concluding that Laurie is still in danger, Loomis rushes to the hospital and causes an explosion which engulfs himself and Myers, while Laurie escapes the blast. The traumatised Laurie is last seen being transferred to another hospital.

In Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Laurie is said to have died prior to the film's events, with the role of protagonist taken up by her young daughter, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris). A photograph of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie appears in a scene where Jamie remembers her mother. The character of Jamie would go on to reappear in two more Halloween sequels, while Laurie's cousin Kara (Marianne Hagan) and her family appear in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, the seventh film in the series. This movie ignores the previous three sequels, and as such, the existence of the Jamie Lloyd character, who is not mentioned. Laurie is revealed to have faked her death in a car accident as a way of escaping her murderous brother, whose body was not found after Halloween II. She is now living under the name Keri Tate, and works as the headmistress of a California private school, where her teenage son John Tate (Josh Hartnett) is a student. Laurie, who by now has become an alcoholic, is still haunted by memories of her brother's rampage, and lives in fear that he may return. Although John dismisses her as paranoid, her fears become reality when Myers (Chris Durand) resurfaces on Halloween and murders John's friends. After getting her son to safety, Laurie decides to stop running and face her brother. She stops Michael, but unconvinced that he is truly dead, goes on to steal his body and decapitate him. In Halloween: Resurrection, it is revealed that the man Laurie killed was a paramedic with whom Myers (Brad Loree) had swapped clothes. The guilt-ridden Laurie is now an inmate at the Grace Anderson Sanitarium, where the nurses believe her to be catatonic. Instead, she is preparing for Myers' return, and when he does, she lures him on to the institution's rooftop. Although he falls into her trap, Laurie's fears of again killing the wrong person get the better of her, and Michael stabs her and drops her from the roof to her apparent death.

Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) appears in Rob Zombie's Halloween remake. This movie establishes from the beginning that Laurie is Michael's baby sister, and the young Michael (Daeg Faerch) is shown to love her very much. When Michael is sent away for killing his older sister Judith (Hanna R. Hall), Laurie's mother is unable to cope and commits suicide. The infant Laurie is discovered by Sheriff Brackett (Brad Dourif), who omits her from the records for her own protection, and she is eventually adopted by the Strode family. The adult Michael (Tyler Mane) escapes and comes home in search of his sister, killing her adoptive parents and her friend Lynda (Kristina Klebe) before kidnapping her. Michael attempts to communicate with Laurie through a picture of them both as children, but she does not understand and attacks him. Laurie hides as Michael hunts her down in their old childhood home; when he finds her, she shoots him in the face with a gun given to her by Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell).

In the sequel to the 2007 film, Laurie discovers from Dr. Loomis' book that she is Michael's sister, Angel, and moves out of the Brackett house. After a night of drinking, she returns to the Brackett house and discovers that Myers has again attacked her friend Annie who dies in Laurie's arms. She flees the house and flags down a car, but Myers kills the driver and flips the car over, knocking Laurie unconscious. Myers removes her from the car just before it explodes, and takes her "hostage" in a shack. Laurie struggles to break free from an apparition of young Michael, being forced to tell her mother (Deborah Myer) "I love you mommy", but after Loomis enters it is revealed she has the same sickness as her brother. After Myers is shot and impaled, Laurie tells him she loves him. He drops the knife and falls to the ground in front of her, which she then picks up. She stabs him repeatedly and then shoves the knife into his face. Laurie emerges from the shack wearing Myers' mask and holding the knife. She is next seen locked up in an mental hospital. As she raises her head, her eyes are black and she grins at a vision of Deborah Myers walking with a white horse.

In the director's cut of the film, Laurie's fate is entirely different: Enraged at Loomis because of what she read in his book, she attempts to kill the injured and unconscious Loomis after Michael is killed and is shot down by the panicked police against Brackett's orders, followed by the closing scene from the theatrical version, however, in the director's commentary on the DVD, Rob Zombie states that Laurie does die from getting shot and the last scene in the mental hospital was her final thought.

Literature

Laurie Strode's first literary appearance was in October 1979, in Curtis Richards' novelization of Halloween, which largely follows the events of the film. She also appeared in the 1981 adaptation of Halloween II written by Jack Martin; it was published alongside the first film sequel, with the novel following the film events, with an additional victim, a reporter, added to the novel.

Laurie appears in the twist ending of the comic book Halloween III: The Devil's Eyes. While examining Dr. Loomis' diaries in the hopes of finding out more about Michael Myers, an adult Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace are attacked by a person dressed as Myers. They unmask the figure to reveal Laurie Strode, who has taken on her brother's mantle. At the conclusion of the book Laurie kills Tommy (losing an eye in the process) and is subsequently incarcerated in Smith's Grove, where Dr. Terence Wynn takes an interest in her. This story follows on from Halloween H20, but is set in a non-canon timeline contradicted by the release of Halloween: Resurrection.

The anthology one-shot comic Halloween: 30 Years of Terror includes a Laurie Strode storyline entitled "Visiting Hours". Set between H20 and Resurrection, it shows Laurie in the Grace Anderson Sanitarium, where she wonders how her life could have been if Michael hadn't found her in 1978. In this alternate universe, she lives a happy life in which her friends are still alive, but the memory of Michael invades her fantasy world and leaves her with nothing. Laurie concludes that "I can't even dream of a normal life without [Michael] killing it", and can do nothing but wait for her brother's inevitable "visit" to set her free. Laurie appears prominently in the comic book limited series Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode; set after Halloween II, it depicts the events which lead to her faking her death.

Casting

In an interview, Carpenter admits that "Jamie Lee wasn't the first choice for Laurie. I had no idea who she was. She was 19 and in a TV show at the time, but I didn't watch TV." He originally wanted to cast Anne Lockhart, the daughter of June Lockhart from Lassie, as Laurie Strode. Lockhart, however, had commitments to several other film and television projects. Debra Hill says of learning that Curtis was the daughter of Psycho star Janet Leigh, "I knew casting Jamie Lee would be great publicity for the film because her mother was in Psycho."

References

^ Carpenter, John (Writer/Director) and Debra Hill (Writer). (1978). Halloween. [DVD]. United States: Compass International Pictures.

^ Rosenthal, Rick (Director), John Carpenter, and Debra Hill (Writers). (1981). Halloween II. [DVD]. United States: Universal Pictures.

^ Little, Dwight (Director) and Allan McElroy (Writer). (1988). Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. [DVD]. United States: Galaxy International Releasing.

^ Othenin-Girard, Dominique (Director), Michael Jacobs, Dominique Othenin-Girard, and Shem Bitterman (Writers). (1989). Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. [DVD]. United States: Galaxy International Releasing.

^ a b Chappelle, Joe (Director) and Daniel Farrands (Writer). (1995). Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. [DVD]. United States: Miramax Films.

^ Miner, Steve (Director), Robert Zapia, and Matt Greenberg (Writers). (1998). Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. [DVD]. United States: Dimension Films.

^ Rosenthal, Rick (Director), Larry Brand, and Sean Hood (Writers). (2002). Halloween: Resurrection. [DVD]. United States: Dimension Films.

^ Zombie, Rob (Writer/Director). (2007). Halloween. [DVD]. United States: Dimension Films.

^ Curtis Richards (October 1979). Halloween (novel). Bantam Books. ISBN 553132261. http://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Curtis-Richards/dp/0553132261/.

^ Jack Martin (1981-11-01). Halloween II (novel). Zebra Publishing. ISBN 089083864X. http://www.amazon.com/HALLOWEEN-II-Jack-Martin/dp/089083864X/.

^ "Halloween Michael Myers comic book titles". Movie Maniacs Comic Books. http://www.iconsoffright.com/Comic_Maniac.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-22.

^ "Daniel Farrands interview". Icons of Fright. 2005. http://www.iconsoffright.com/IV_Dan.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-01.

^ Stephen Hutchinson(w),Daniel Zezelj, Jim Daly, Brett Weldele, Jeffrey Zornow, Lee Ferguson, Tim Seeley(p),Nick Bell, Rob Buffalo, Jeffrey Zornow, Elizabeth John(i).Halloween: 30 Years of Terror (August, 2007), Devil's Due Publishing

^ Steve Ekstrom (2008-08-18). "Hutchinson on Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode". Newsarama. http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080818-HalloweenLS.html. Retrieved 2008-11-11.

^ John Carpenter, Entertainment Weekly interview, quoted at HalloweenMovies.com; last accessed April 19, 2006.

^ Debra Hill, Fangoria interview, quoted at HalloweenMovies.com; last accessed April 19, 2006.

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The Halloween series

Films

Halloween (1978) Halloween II (1981) Season of the Witch The Return of Michael Myers The Revenge of Michael Myers

The Curse of Michael Myers Halloween H20 Halloween: Resurrection Halloween (2007) Halloween II (2009)

Characters

Michael Myers Samuel Loomis Laurie Strode Jamie Lloyd Other characters

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