"Halloween" has the biggest opening of his horror film directed by a woman

Jamie Lee Curtis proved this weekend that women over 50 could still be screaming queen. "Halloween," the eleventh installment in the series, earned about $ 77.5 million worth of tickets sold by North American theaters, breaking several records. It was the second biggest horror opening of all time, after "It" last year.

"Halloween" did better than any of its predecessors and also clinched the second-biggest October opening of all-time behind "Venom", which netted $ 80.3 million earlier this month. But the film was also a huge win for Curtis, who returns to her role as Laurie Strode, who is trying to escape the clutches of masked killer Michael Myers. "Halloween" was the biggest horror movie opening with a female star and the biggest movie opening with a female principal of over 55 years old.

The moment was not lost for Curtis, who wrote on Twitter that it was going to be limited to "a BOAST post". Curtis also starred in the Fox TV show Scream "Queens" and his mother, Janet Leigh, was also one of the most revered scream queens of all time, playing Marion Crane in "Psycho" of the 1960s.

"Halloween", which is a direct follow-up of the original "Halloween" and skips the suites in-between, has been well received by critics, with an 80 percent rating on rotten tomatoes. The new horror film, co-produced by Blumhouse and Miramax, cost only $ 10 million.

"You take the nostalgia for" Halloween ", especially with the return of Jamie Lee Curtis, and you associate that with the Blumhouse brand and its contemporary motto in the genre." Jim Orr, president of the home entertainment division, said: Universal, told the Associated Press.

David Gordon Green directs the latest film "Halloween", but the original director John Carpenter is the executive producer. Last year, Carpenter told "CBS Sunday Morning" that he never thought that there would be a sequel to Halloween.

"There is no more history," he explained. "There was nothing more to say, damn it, I was wrong!" Although he became insane about any revealed plot, he admitted the latest sequel: "It is to pretend that the other suites did not happen." He also insisted that this "Halloween" would be the final sequel.

"Halloween" is on the bill now.