She hates to be scared, doesn’t like to watch violent movies, and for all of her strongly held opinions, she tries never to argue.
“The ONLY thing left over at the end of this entire BEAUTIFUL wedding, after everything was taken away was this f-ing BUTCHER KNIFE they cut the tiramisu wedding cake with!”ĬURTIS NEVER MEANT to be the face of horror. COME ON!”īoth of her daughters’ weddings were held in the house’s oak-shaded backyard - the most recent in May, when Curtis officiated her daughter Ruby’s cosplay-themed nuptials and gamely dressed up as a sorceress from the video game “World of Warcraft.” After the wedding, Curtis posted pictures of the happy couple to Instagram, alongside a photo of her brandishing the sort of blade that her horror-movie nemesis Michael Myers would eagerly pull from its knife block. At one point, when I told her I was dating someone, Curtis slipped a ring off her finger and gave it to me: “It’s that easy. Though her parents divorced when she was just 3, and though her mother was married four times and her father six, their track record has not dimmed Curtis’s faith in the sanctity of marriage: The concept of commitment thrills her. In a city where the idle rich tend to flip houses like pancakes, that kind of tenure is unusual, though Curtis just shrugged: “I’m married to my first husband, you know what I mean?” “I’m a hausfrau,” she said, using her children’s ages to calculate that she had lived in this Santa Monica home for 31 years. “I needed to pack the big hanging bags, so I put Runi in his crate in my bedroom, I turned on the air conditioning, I turned on Boston - loud - and shut the door so he wouldn’t hear the zipping of the suitcases in the other room.” She paused for effect: “That’s how COMPLETELY obsessed I was!”īy now, she had walked me into her kitchen, a marble palace with pops of color that included goldenrod pillows in the breakfast nook, a copper lamp hanging above the kitchen table, a vase of slow-to-wake pink tulips, and a framed orange poster that said, “NOTE TO SELF: BE KIND, BE KIND BE KIND.” She had baked a lemon cake for us to nosh on, and though she insisted she wasn’t showing off - “I baked because I was hungry” - she took pride in her skills as a homemaker. If you have ever packed a suitcase and watched your dog’s tail droop, you can understand why the day before our interview, Curtis had gone to such great lengths to conceal her upcoming trip. “I’m embarrassed,” said the 63-year-old actress, “but I’m going to tell you anyway.”Ĭurtis was about to depart on a lengthy trip to promote “Halloween Ends,” her final film in the long-running horror franchise, while also doing awards-season press for “ Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the indie hit she co-starred in this past March, and the supersized itinerary had her worried: What would all those weeks away mean for her rescue dog, a sweet-natured terrier-poodle named Runi? Only a minute had passed since we met on the sidewalk outside her home, but Curtis was already thrusting her hands toward mine, sizing me up as a kindred spirit - or, at the very least, someone she could tell a funny pet-owner story. “DUDE!” a barefoot Jamie Lee Curtis exclaimed among the recycling bins. This list captures the dry humor of figures like Sam Raimi and Aubrey Plaza, both of whom turn a scary watch into a fun time, mines newer treasures in the form of films like Fresh, Ready or Not, Freaky, and recalls timeless classics like Heathers, American Psycho, and even a wild card like Urban Legend.SANTA MONICA, Calif. Even more difficult, finding movies that encompass both genres that are worth spending the time to watch. Scares and laughs are a rare blend to find in cinema. The rollercoaster of feelings you experience when watching a character flee from a horrific killer, only to outsmart him with a wise meta remark like, "Not in my movie!" is the greatest thrill. When else do you get the opportunity to laugh at trauma? Find levity and joy in the face of fear? Not often! It's a form of catharsis unlike any other. They have it all, running the gamut of raw human emotion in a way that elevates your movie night from a simple time-killer to a cinematic and social experience. Horror comedy movies truly give audiences the best of both worlds.
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