Our step-by-step guide for traveling through the Michael Myers cinematic universe.
(Just save us some popcorn once you kick off this outsized marathon.)
It’s not exactly Shakespeare, but it’s fun regardless.
Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween (1978); Tyler Mane in ‘Halloween’ (2007); Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween Ends’.Credit: Mary Evans/COMPASS INTERNATIONAL PICTURES/FALCON INTERNATIONAL PRODUC/Ronald Grant/Everett; Dimension Films/Everett; Ryan Green/Universal Pictures/Everett
That’s one child experiencing death by a thousand cuts with these inferior sequels.
If you’re just in it for the kills, there’s some bleak brutality on display here.
)Halloween(2018)
Ready to do the time warp again?
Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween’.Mary Evans/COMPASS INTERNATIONAL PICTURES/FALCON INTERNATIONAL PRODUC/Ronald Grant/Everett
No, we aren’t visiting Dr. Frank-N-Furter, but directorDavid Gordon Green’sHalloweenprequel follows in the footsteps ofH20.
Inevitably, Michael Myers returns to this world, and that homecoming is surprisingly effective.
A franchise and its killer reborn at last.
Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween II’.Everett
It takes place only minutes after his first film, but they couldn’t be tonally more different.
That’s because Laurie is mostly sidelined as is Michael himself.
Brad Schacter in ‘Halloween III: Season of the Witch’.Universal/Everett
George P. Wilbur in ‘Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers’.Galaxy International/Everett
Donald Pleasence in ‘Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers’.Galaxy International Releasing/Everett
Marianne Hagan, Devin Gardner, and Paul Rudd in ‘Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers’.Dimension Films/Everett
Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween H20: 20 Years Later’.Dimension Films/Everett
Jamie Lee Curtis and Brad Loree in ‘Halloween: Resurrection’.Miramax/Everett
Danny Trejo, Tyler Mane, and Lew Temple in ‘Halloween’.Dimension Films/Everett
Tyler Mane in ‘Halloween II’.Marsha LaMarca/Weinstein Company/Everett
Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween’.Ryan Green/Universal/Everett
Jamie Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween Kills’.Universal Pictures/Everett
Jamie Lee Curtis and James Jude Courtney in ‘Halloween Ends’.Ryan Green/Universal Pictures/Everett
