Halloween 4K UHD (1978)

[concolt]

5 and 6 are at the bottom with RZ Halloweens.

[mikey horror]

Halloween (1978)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween Ends (2022)
Halloween Kills (2021)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (2009)
Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007)

[Zapp Brannigan]

1. Halloween (1978)
2. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
3. Halloween II (1981)
4. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
5. Halloween Ends
6. Halloween (2018)
7. Halloween: H20
8. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
9. Halloween Kills
10. RZ Halloween
11. RZ Halloween II
12. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
13. Halloween: Resurrection

[ponderingtheuniverse]

Sacred Bones has found extra copies of HIII on their website, the boxset without the vinyl:
https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/p...PDCJvZI.WJdCvY

[Kubrick DeLarge1989]

1.Halloween 1978
2.Halloween 2 (1981)
3.Halloween H20 (I know the mask is horrendous)

[Natd3125]

Rohan Campbell is sickeningly cringey. I’d watch Resurrection and Kills everyday for the rest of my life before I ever care to see Ends again. Order the films however you’d like, but that turd is at the bottom.

[bobbyh64]

Originally Posted by Matt89

Ranking the new entries near the bottom while having sequels like Halloween 5 and Curse of Michael Myers in the top 5-10 is absolutely WILD to me.

Halloween 5 is one of the most garbage slasher entries of the 1980s. Like...not even for just a Halloween movie, I mean overall. Period. Such a mess of a film. And Myers looks dumb AF in it. And the plot is stupid as hell. Bottom tier entry that's for sure.

But Curse is just so damn fun. Yeah, the story is dumb and bonkers but it has some nice suspenseful sequences, no annoying or obnoxious characters like in H5, fantastic cinematography, great fall time atmosphere, and a mask that’s miles better than the previous two. And it perfectly captures the feeling of the early-mid 90s before the Scream aesthetic took over.

[Alan T]

Halloween
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween II
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Halloween H20
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Halloween Ends
Halloween: Resurrection
RZ Halloween
RZ Halloween II
Halloween 2018
Halloween Kills

[darkness2918]

Halloween (1978)
Halloween II
RZ Halloween
Halloween H20
RZ Halloween II
Halloween III
Halloween (2018)
Halloween Kills
Halloween Ends
Halloween 4
Halloween 5
Halloween Resurrection
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

[CrimsonLegionVMCXIX]

My Top 3 are Halloween, Halloween 4, and Halloween 2018. H20 and Kills follow.

2, 3, and Curse are in the middle of the pack.

My Bottom 3 are Halloween Ends and the Rob Zombie films. 5 and Resurrection are a step above.

[concolt]

I cringed

[mad_max2000]

Originally Posted by storythecorgi

Thanks for giving H5 some love

Originally Posted by Kubrick DeLarge1989

I agree with you on Ends but having Halloween 5 in the top 3 is wild

Originally Posted by Matt89

Ranking the new entries near the bottom while having sequels like Halloween 5 and Curse of Michael Myers in the top 5-10 is absolutely WILD to me.

Halloween 5 is one of the most garbage slasher entries of the 1980s. Like...not even for just a Halloween movie, I mean overall. Period. Such a mess of a film. And Myers looks dumb AF in it. And the plot is stupid as hell. Bottom tier entry that's for sure.

I've always loved H5. I understand the criticisms, believe me I do. I would still swap Tina and Rachel and fix the Myers house, but the mask has never bothered me, I like the whole connection that Jamie and the shape have (even if it makes no sense) and the entire third act is great. I also love the atmosphere the movie has once it's Halloween night. Different strokes I guess.

Originally Posted by DragonOfTheBlackPool

I’d move H2 (81) and SOTW into the 2nd and 3rd spot and bump Kills up one notch, but this is a solid list. The two Zombie turds and Ends at the bottom…where they belong.

Originally Posted by Natd3125

Rohan Campbell is sickeningly cringey. I’d watch Resurrection and Kills everyday for the rest of my life before I ever care to see Ends again. Order the films however you’d like, but that turd is at the bottom.

Honestly, the only entry I absolutely despise is Ends. It's far too plodding and poorly written for me to enjoy. Even to just put it on in the background. It's also brutal and grotesque to a degree that even Rob Zombie never went to. Corey's murder spree is far more sadistic and difficult for me to watch than any murder the shape has committed or (and I can't believe I'm saying this), even the r*pe scene in the director's cut of Halloween '07. And that's something I never thought would be surpassed. At least in that case Michael kills those 2 guys right away so there is some degree of catharsis there. Though personally, I'd still rather watch neither one.

Also, while this isn't necessarily the movies fault, Ends has to be one of the worst movie going experiences I've ever had. I went opening night to Halloween (2018), Kills and Ends. And while the first 2 were packed theaters, Ends was mostly a ghost town. There were only about 10 other people in the theater and 1 of those other 10 people decided to sit right next to me. It was like going to a wake. No one reacted to anything in the movie; the kills, the romance, the attempts at humor, none of it. And when the movie was over, 2 guys sitting a few rows ahead of me stood up, looked at each other and 1 of just goes, "well that sucked," or something to that effect. I couldn't agree more.

I actually don't mind Kills and HII '09 for most of their run times. Kills is at least shut-your-brain-off-and-enjoy-the-absurdity-of-it-all kind of fun (at least some of the time). The biggest sticking point for me is that the shape is just way too brutal and way over powered for being "merely human" as DDG and the writers so often claimed he was in interviews. He feels more like a geriatric John Wick, and while I love those movies that vide is just all wrong for the shape.

HII '09 is just weird enough to be interesting to me. It has Malcolm McDowell hamming it up which is always fun, I had a huge crush on Angela Trimbur after this movie and the stuff with Laurie and her relationship with her therapist (shout out to Margot Kidder for having a great sense of humor!) and the Bracketts is actually rather compelling to me. The weakest aspect is really Michael himself. The movie didn't need him but he's here anyway... and he's never looked more like Rob Zombie!

[Kubrick DeLarge1989]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

This is the objectively correct order:

Halloween
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Halloween H20
Halloween Resurrection
Rob Zombie's Halloween
Rob Zombie's Halloween II
Halloween
Halloween Kills
Halloween Ends

Halloween 5 over Curse and H20!?

[NuXiaolin]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Kinda.

Snakedance

[Jorvic]

Originally Posted by mikey horror

Halloween (1978)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween Ends (2022)
Halloween Kills (2021)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Halloween: H20 (1998)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (2009)
Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007)

That's almost exactly the order I would have. Only difference might be that having watched Resurrection recently, I think I'd maybe have to put it last.

[DR Herbert West]

Halloween (1978)
Halloween III
Halloween Ends
Halloween Kills
Halloween (2018)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween II (2009)
Halloween 4
Halloween 6
Halloween 5
Halloween (2007)
Halloween: H20
Halloween: Resurrection

[Martoto]

Halloween (1978)
The Terminator*
No Country For Old Men*
It Follows*

(*movies that actually deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as JC's Halloween, unlike any of the sequels/remakes)

Special mention to Chinatown. Do you know how you can tell how much Cameron was influenced by Carpenter and Halloween. Well he "homaged" a shot of a car pulling up from the side of the screen in foreground of an establishing shot, creating a wipe effect across a portion of the screen, and then the occupants get out and approach the house in the establishing shot. Like when Brackett and Loomis arrive at the Myers house. And John "homaged" that shot from Chinatown when Evelyn enters the house were her sister/daughter is, and Jake unexpectedly pulls up in front of the shot and gets out.

Also Kyle's "it can't be bargained with" bit to the bewildered Sarah, is basically Cameron's version of Loomis explaining to skeptical Brackett how inhuman Michael is.

[mikey horror]

Originally Posted by Jorvic

That's almost exactly the order I would have. Only difference might be that having watched Resurrection recently, I think I'd maybe have to put it last.

Yeah, the bottom three on my list may change order from time to time, but one thing that is consistent is that they are ALWAYS the bottom three.

[balthazar_bee]

Originally Posted by InNeedOfTweed

1. Halloween
2. Halloween 2
3.
4.
5.
6. Halloween H20

There are no other Halloween movies.

Originally Posted by Kubrick DeLarge1989

1.Halloween 1978
2.Halloween 2 (1981)
3.Halloween H20 (I know the mask is horrendous)

One thing I can never relate to: this notion that H20 is the one bright spot after 1981. Granted this is a wildly uneven series, but to say that one in particular is good and all the rest are disqualifyingly bad? I don't hate it, but I do wonder what others see in it. Seems pretty uninspired to me, apart from some moments in Curtis's performance.

[Martoto]

Originally Posted by balthazar_bee

One thing I can never relate to: this notion that H20 is the one bright spot after 1981. Granted this is a wildly uneven series, but to say that one in particular is good and all the rest are disqualifyingly bad? I don't hate it, but I do wonder what others see in it. Seems pretty uninspired to me, apart from some moments in Curtis's performance.

I used to quite like it. But it's a bit like a mall built in the nineties. It seemed swankily neo-classical when it was just opened. But gradually started to look like a thin, gentrified skin covering a perfunctory building. Kind of felt like it had the smarts to make a successful slasher in the late-nineties milieu. But it didn't have the heart. I think it's one of JLC's middest performances, and I think I enjoy her appearance in Resurrection better, but she's still the star here. Younger actors do a good job too, but it's with a teen-touchy-feely soap angst script that just makes me plotz.

The movie got off to a decent start too. I rather wish it had stayed in, wherever that location was. With Michael terrorising random people and the cops thinking it has something to do with Loomis, Chambers, the files and Laurie (maybe even Jamie, as long as Laurie is actually dead), when it just turns out to be a coincidence.

Setting it in a boarding school was just like saying "We give up. We'll just turn Halloween into a Jason movie and have Myers running around and ersatz summer camp." The Psycho easter eggs come off a little forced sometimes.

The only special thing it had going for it was Laurie returning and Michael dying. And they were only special for about fifteen minutes.