Jamie Lee Curtis’ annual tribute to the Halloween movies have become something of a Spooky Season tradition, and the actress did not 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 singing a song of longing and innocent love and by the end of that night I became the first FINAL GIRL!” Curtis, 65, wrote in the caption about the original 1978 film from director John Carpenter.

“Over these years I have had the opportunity to meet millions and millions of people whose lives were affected by that film and subsequent films,” she continued. “That shared experience in a movie theater connected us all and so on this Halloween night I thank you for my creative life and my renewed belief that coming together as a group of people, with a common purpose, fighting for our lives together, brings out the best in us upstairs.”

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

Curtis ended by thanking Carpenter for choosing her for the role of “every girl” Laurie Strode, a role she has returned to in several films. Halloween sequels over the years, as well as the film crews and her costars.

Along with the moving message, the Everything everywhere at once The Oscar winner added 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 franchise, who in turn holds a photo of the character in Carpenter’s original.

The second was a fake photo 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 former’s 45th anniversary Halloween film. She wrote that the statue “embodies the trauma and resilience of victims of unexpected violence and the human instinct to survive.”

“Little did any of us know that 45 years later we would be telling that same, simple story of good versus evil over and over again, and that out of it would emerge a feminist icon, The Last Girl,” Curtis wrote last year. “This movie and Laurie Strode gave me the career that I continue to have because of her.”

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Two years ago, Curtis was struggling to finish her last trilogy Halloween movies.

‘As I play Laurie for the last time, in Halloween endsthe 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 essay out October 2022 for PEOPLE. “It’s the end now for Laurie and me. I’m crying as I write this. I’m going to miss her. Movies are fiction, but this is my real life. Mine was made better by her.