Jamie Lee Curtis dressed as mom Janet Leigh in ‘Psycho’ for ‘Halloween Kills’ premiere

Curtis, who stars within the newest installment of the favored “Halloween” horror film franchise, wore a pale blue costume and complimented it with a blonde wig, black purse and bathe curtain smeared with pretend blood.

Leigh’s character, Marion Crane, famously meets her finish in “Pscyho” after being stabbed to demise within the bathe.

Curtis mentioned it was extra “meta” when it got here to honoring her mom, who died in 2004 after a battle with vasculitis, which is an irritation of blood vessels.

“I’m really going as Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh within the film ‘Hitchcock’,” Curtis told “Entertainment Tonight. “So it is meta as a result of we by no means knew what shade Janet Leigh’s costume was as a result of it was a black-and-white film. However now due to the ‘Hitchcock’ film, we all know it was pale blue.”

She added the bathe curtain, she mentioned, so individuals would not suppose she had simply dressed as a Nineteen Fifties housewife.

It isn’t the primary time the actress has paid tribute to her well-known mom’s equally well-known horror film position.

In 2015, Curtis recreated the “Psycho” shower scene, in black and white like the unique, as a part of her position as Wallace College Dean Cathy Munsch on Ryan Murphy’s horror-comedy TV sequence “Scream Queens.”