Jamie Lee Curtis posts heartfelt tribute to “Halloween” fans for 2024

Jamie Lee Curtis' annual tribute to the Halloween Movies have become something of a spooky season tradition, and the actress didn't disappoint this year!

On Thursday, October 31, Curtis took to Instagram to wish fans a Happy Halloween with a heartfelt ode to the horror franchise that launched her career.

“46 years ago I walked down a tree-lined street and sang a song full of longing and innocent love, and at the end of that night I became the first FINAL GIRL!” Curtis, 65, wrote in the caption of the post about the director's original film John Carpenter from 1978.

“Over these years, I have had the opportunity to meet millions and millions of people whose lives have been influenced by this film and the films that followed,” she continued. “This shared experience in a movie theater has brought us all together, and so on this Halloween night I thank you for my creative life and my renewed belief that we come together as a group of people with a common goal and fight for our common life.” , brings out the best in us.”

“Mr. Myers excluded, of course,” she joked about the franchise's masked psycho-slasher, Michael Myers.

Curtis concluded by thanking Carpenter for choosing her to play Every Girl's Laurie Strode, a role she has returned to several times Halloween Sequels over the years as well as the films' crews and their co-stars.

Along with the touching message, the Everything everywhere at once The Oscar winner included two photos. The first showed Curtis holding a photo of her Halloween Character as depicted in director David Gordon Green's three most recent entries in the series, who in turn has a photograph of the character in the original by Carpenter.

The second was a doctored image of the actress planting a kiss on her character's forehead. Curtis previously posted the image last year along with a similar message to mark the 45th anniversary of the first Halloween Film. She wrote that the image “embodies the trauma and resilience of victims of unexpected violence, as well as the human instinct for survival.”

“None of us knew that 45 years later we would be telling the same simple story of good versus evil over and over again and that it would create a feminist icon, The Final Girl,” Curtis wrote last year. “This film and Laurie Strode gave me a career that I can continue to have because of her.”

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Two years ago, Curtis was struggling to finish her final trilogy Halloween Films.

“As I play Laurie for the last time, in Halloween ends“The final installment of the franchise, I'm trying to figure out how to say goodbye to Laurie, who taught me the meaning of the words 'resilience,' 'loyalty,' 'perseverance,' and 'COURAGE,'” she wrote in an October essay 2022 for PEOPLE. “Now it’s the end for Laurie and me. I'm crying as I write this. I'll miss her. Movies are fantasy, but this is my real life. Mine was improved by her.”