Jamie Lee Curtis isn't a big fan of horror movies.

The 67-year-old actress established herself as a scream queen with her portrayal of Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise but has confessed that the genre is "not my thing".

Speaking at the SXSW festival in Texas, Jamie said: "I don't really love it. I'm not joking; I'm not into it. It doesn't mean I don't appreciate it. It's just not my genre, not my thing.

"I owe my life to the genre, but I don't have to pretend that I'm a genre girl and I love it."

However, Jamie is pleased that horror movies such as Sinners and Weapons were honoured at the Academy Awards this year.

The Trading Places star said: "The fact that it's a genre that now is getting more understanding and appreciation, of course I'm happy. It's fantastic that the Academy is moving along with that and changing and growing, like any good institution."

Curtis made a return to the Halloween franchise in David Gordon Green's 2018 sequel Halloween - a direct sequel to the original 1978 flick - and admits that she wouldn't have signed up for the picture if she knew she had to appear in the two follow-up movies Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.

Instead, the True Lies star decided to use the films to land a development deal with movie producer Jason Blum of Blumhouse.

Jamie said: "The only reason I am sitting in this chair today is because of Jason. Jason Blum, who runs Blumhouse, is the one who brought back the Halloween movies.

"If they had come to me and said it's going to be a trilogy, I don't think I would have said yes. Jason Blum is notoriously cheap. How do you make low-budget movies? You don't pay people. That's the model.

"While we were editing and doing the mix, David said, 'You know it's a trilogy.' I was like, 'Uh, no.' I went to Jason Blum and said, 'I have some ideas, maybe you could give me a first look deal, just pay me a little money'. I said to Jason, 'How about a little development deal?' And I owed him two Halloween movies, so what was he gonna say? Jason Blum gave me a vanity deal."

Meanwhile, Curtis revealed last year that she has never been interested in "looking pretty" in her movies.

She told Empire magazine: "Looking pretty in the movies was never my thing. It's just not who I am; it's just not been my currency.

"Whether you thought I was pretty or not, it wasn't like I felt like I was a great beauty and that the camera would love me.

"Lately I've been able to become characters which have freed me from any vanity, which then frees me as an artist - because then it doesn't matter, because then I'm just doing the work. And I've always wanted to do that work."