“If I could be maternal for a moment…”
Those words were spoken to Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) by the matronly Norma, who was played by none other than the original scream queen, Janet Leigh (“Psycho”), in 1998’s “Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later,” which was supposed to be the final “for real this time” follow up to the “Halloween” movie. However, there have since been at least four more in the intervening years — and two with Curtis — but we digress.
Who could forget 1998 theatergoers chuckling knowing that Leigh was, of course, the real-life mother of Curtis (who changed the spelling of her mother’s maiden name when she started acting). And 38 years earlier, Leigh fell victim to the cross-dressing Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his butcher knife in the infamous “shower scene” in “Psycho.” So, it was only natural her daughter would one day find herself also facing off against a masked boogeyman like Michael Myers. Like mother, like daughter.
