What's the best order to watch all the Halloween movies?

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(Pocket-lint) - Halloween is the cleanable clip to ticker 1 of the scariest guys to ever deterioration a jumpsuit: Michael Myers. His reign of panic started decades agone and present spans a twelve Halloween films. But they don't each travel a neat order.

The franchise was rebooted a mates times - successful 1998 and 2018 - positive there's a Rob Zombie remake of the archetypal film. That makes it hard to cobble unneurotic a chronological guide, but it's not impossible, fixed astir of the films person him stalking mediocre Laurie Strode. So, we’ve made an bid that follows the king of slasher flicks from his aboriginal days astatine 45 Lampkin Lane to today.

Every Halloween movie successful chronological order

We’ve included a spoiler-free mentation of this usher astatine the bottom, on with a theatrical merchandise day and reboot orders.

NOTE: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS BELOW.

Halloween (1978)

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Halloween (1978)

The archetypal Halloween movie kicks disconnected Halloween night, of course, successful 1963. We spot a six-year-old Michael Myers execution his older sister with a room weapon astatine 45 Lampkin Lane. Fifteen years walk and Myers breaks retired from an instauration wherever he’s been held, and his psychiatrist, Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasance), is forced to pursuit him. Myers returns to his aged location municipality of Haddonfield, Illinois to prey connected immoderate unsuspecting babysitters led by Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode. John Carpenter directed this movie and wrote it with Debra Hill.

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Halloween II (1981)

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Halloween II (1981)

Picking up close astatine the extremity of the archetypal film, we spot Laurie transported to a infirmary aft supposedly defeating Michael Myers. But helium gets up and walks distant from a bid of stabbings and gunshot wounds that would different termination astir people. Although Dr Loomis initially thinks Michael has been indiscriminately targeting babysitters, helium soon learns the slayer is aft Laurie for a circumstantial reason.

Rick Rosenthal directed this film, but John Carpenter returned to constitute and nutrient it with Debra Hill.

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988)

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Yes, we skipped Halloween III. More connected that later. Halloween IV, directed by Dwight Little, picks up 10 years aft the events of the archetypal 2 films, with Michael Myers awakening from a coma and heading retired to find and termination Laurie’s daughter, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris). For those wondering, Laurie “died” successful an off-screen car mishap earlier the events successful Halloween 4.

Also, John Carpenter didn't constitute oregon nutrient this film. He did Halloween III but doesn't travel backmost to the franchise until 2018's Halloween.

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

The extremity of Halloween 4 saw Michael Myers changeable repeatedly and thrown down a mineshaft. This 5th movie sees his assemblage lavation up successful a creek, wherever a antheral who lives unsocial successful the woods finds him. He spends a twelvemonth taking attraction of Michael’s comatose assemblage earlier helium awakes connected Halloween night. Michael instantly kills the antheral and heads retired to find Jamie (Danielle Harris), who is successful therapy from her past run-in with him.

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Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Set six years later, The Curse of Michael Myers opens with Jamie, present played by JC Brandy, arsenic a captive of a cult that broke Michael escaped astatine the extremity of Halloween 5. She has been forced to transportation a kid and dies during an flight attempt. She manages to fell her infant, though, who is past recovered by Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd), the young lad that Laurie Strode babysat successful the archetypal Halloween film.

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Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later

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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

H20 opens with Michael Myers vandalising the location of his precocious deceased erstwhile psychiatrist. He discovers that Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) faked her decease and has been surviving arsenic the main of a backstage boarding schoolhouse that her ain lad John (Josh Hartnett) attends.

Michael Myers, naturally, arrives conscionable successful clip for a Halloween household reunion.

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Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

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Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

This installment sees 2 things we ne'er thought we’d see: Michael Myers yet gets to termination Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), and helium gets to karate-fight Busta Rhymes. The movie opens with Laurie institutionalised pursuing the events of H20 3 years earlier, and Michael comes to wage her a visit. After that, helium heads to his aged abandoned location to find the contestants of a world amusement who privation to walk a nighttime with him.

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Halloween (2018)

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Halloween (2018)

The highest-grossing movie successful the franchise is besides the astir recent. It's different reboot, but it serves arsenic a nonstop sequel to the archetypal Halloween, meaning it treats each the different movies arsenic if they didn’t happen. Since it was truthful successful, it has 2 much sequels successful the works.

Jamie Lee Curtis erstwhile again returns arsenic Laurie Strode. She is inactive traumatised from the Halloween nighttime 40 years earlier erstwhile Michael Myers came home. She is surviving a reclusive beingness successful a heavy fortified house. She keeps successful interaction with her granddaughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak), but seldom sees her daughter, who was taken distant from her arsenic a child. Luckily, Myers breaks retired of an asylum to big immoderate household therapy.

David Gordon Green directed this Halloween film. Green is besides directing 2 sequels to this film: Halloween Kills (releases 15 October 2021) and Halloween Ends (coming October 2022).

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Halloween Kills (2021)

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Halloween Kills (2021)

The latest installment successful the Michael Myers saga looks to beryllium 1 of the bloodiest entries yet, according to trailers for the caller film. It picks up wherever 2018's Halloween near disconnected - with Michael trapped successful the basement of Laurie Strode's (Jamie Lee Curtis) burning house. The movie besides sees the instrumentality of Judy Greer and Andu Matichak arsenic Laurie Strode's girl and granddaughter, Karen and Alyson Nelson, respectively.

The movie is acceptable to merchandise connected 15 October 201. It has a same-day streaming merchandise connected the Peacock streaming service.

Halloween (2007)

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Halloween (2007)

We’re closing retired our ticker usher with the 2 Rob Zombie remakes. The archetypal film, besides conscionable called Halloween, confusingly, follows the aforesaid people of events arsenic the archetypal film, but it's acceptable decades aboriginal and focuses connected antithetic aspects, specified arsenic the lead-up to Michael Myers' archetypal murders arsenic a kid successful 1990. We besides spot his years of therapy with Dr Loomis (Malcolm McDowell).

The communicative inactive ends successful the aforesaid place, with Michael escaping and heading backmost to Haddonfield to find Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton).

We’re putting this movie toward the extremity due to the fact that it's a abstracted timeline. It's inactive bully to watch, arsenic it fleshes retired Michael's background, but that’s not thing everyone wanted, including John Carpenter himself. It doesn’t assistance that, by the extremity of Rob Zombie's 2nd Halloween film, Myers' inheritance and motivations are muddied by a batch of the aforesaid characteristics arsenic his slasher-movie brethren Jason Vorhees.

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Halloween 2 (2009)

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Halloween II (2009)

Set a twelvemonth aft the archetypal Rob Zombie-helmed Halloween, Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) is inactive dealing with the trauma from the erstwhile Halloween. Michael Myers, meanwhile, has been surviving connected the tally arsenic a hitchhiker, until helium begins to person visions of his parent calling for him to instrumentality location and find Laurie. Halloween II tries to soma retired the transportation betwixt Michael and Laurie.

This Zombie movie is simply a reimagining of the Halloween franchise, but it isn’t a large movie. It manages to beryllium darker than the archetypal films, however.

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1985)

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

The last movie successful our usher is technically the third-released movie from the Halloween franchise.

Released successful 1982, Season of the Witch is simply a failed effort astatine creating a Halloween anthology series. That means it has thing to link it to thing other successful the Halloween Universe. There's not adjacent a Michael Myers. Instead, Halloween III revolves astir a devious crippled by a institution that makes Halloween masks and is readying to execution each kid wearing 1 of its masks utilizing Stonehenge-powered machine chips.

James Carpenter, the archetypal Halloween director, produced this movie with Debra Hill.

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Spoiler-free version: The implicit Halloween timeline astatine a glance

Every Halloween movie successful chronological order

OK, truthful present is the at-a-glance mentation of the usher above, lone escaped of spoilers:

Halloween (1978)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween Kills (2021)
Halloween (2007)
Halloween 2 (2009)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1985)

Theatrical merchandise order

Here is each Halloween movie successful the bid they released successful theatres:

Halloween (1978)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1985)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Halloween (2007)
Halloween 2 (2009)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween Kills (2021)

John Carpenter order

John Carpenter wrote and directed the archetypal Halloween movie and went connected to enactment successful the archetypal 2 sequels successful the franchise earlier moving connected the 2 astir caller Halloween movies. Here are his films: