This year's new Halloween movie might be made to scare, but it's also a tale of female empowerment.
"Ultimately as we are learning in so many areas," says returning star Jamie Lee Curtis. "Women are trying to take back the narrative in their own lives from men who have abused them, in myriad ways."
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Halloween, it turns out, "is just one example of it".
Curtis's comments come from a new interview with People and Entertainment Weekly, in which she reflects on 40 years of the franchise.
"I don't know if 40 years ago I would have ever thought that Laurie Strode would have a daughter, let alone a granddaughter," Curtis said.
"I just don't think I ever took it that far. Trauma is a generational disease because it affects everybody in the family. So that's what I think is so exciting about [this film]. They've explored that through the relationships between mother, daughter, granddaughter."
Curtis was speaking, of course, about the plot of the eleventh entry in the series, directed by David Gordon Green of Pineapple Express fame.
Set 40 years after the original, Curtis once again stars as Laurie Strode, but now she has two extra generations to tackle the murderous Michael Myers (Nick Castle) with.
Now a grandmother, Laurie, daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) are living with the repercussions of that fateful night in 1978.
Together, they must help Laurie survive her final confrontation with the masked killer who has haunted her for four decades.
Halloween is released in the UK on 19 October.
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