The new Halloween film hits screens today, right in time to make this Halloween your most terrifying one yet.

Following on from the events of the first two Halloween films (and dismissing the events of the other, more forgettable films entirely), the film sees Jamie Lee Curtis reprise her role as Laurie Strode – who will come face-to-face with Michael Myers, some 40 years after his initial killing spree in 1978.

But if you’re expecting a standard slasher flick, Lee Curtis wants you to know that there’s more to the eleventh installment of the franchise. The actress points out that while the film was created just before the #MeToo movement began. it explores themes that are very relevant to the feminist struggles of 2018.

“Women and men, all over the world, are starting to stand up and say: ‘This happened to me, but it does not have to be the definition of me.’ We made a horror movie that’s super scary but at its core is the subject of trauma,” she told The Independent. “But in the world, we are having a conversation that has been silenced for a very long time.”

The film’s trailer shows the crazed serial killer – who has been incarcerated in a psychiatric facility for the past four decades – being confronted by a pair of filmmakers looking to learn more about his attacks.

It is a deeply triggering encounter, and one that inspires Myers to escape custody of the facility and return to the town he terrorised all those years ago. Once again, he stalks and targets women – making a point of toying with them, terrifying them long before he murders them.

But, while he seems to be ready to inflict an unstoppable killing spree once again, Myers does not know that he has a formidable foe who has been preparing for this day ever since he was caught.

Strode is ready for him.

Watch the new Halloween trailer for yourself below:

Jamie Lee Curtis explains the new Halloween movie's relationship with the #MeToo movement