Michael Myers Halloween Movies Ranked From Worst to Best | Time
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Halloween movie franchise.
This month marks the release of the new halloween, directed by david gordon green and starring jamie lee curtis as the iconic final girl laurie strode, and by many indications, it’s going to be pretty good. The same can’t be said for the other 10 movies in the franchise, which range from excellent to extremely weird.
here, a ranking of all the michael myers halloween movies in the franchise, from worst to best.
10. halloween: resurrection (2002)
In theory, this movie has a lot going for it: tyra banks, busta rhymes, and a semi-interesting reality show premise, but in practice, it’s lackluster, which is why it got this last spot on Michael’s ranking. myers halloween movies. while other halloween sequels definitely exceeded the “michael is here for his last living relative” thing, seeing a bunch of upset strangers trying to outrun him is even less compelling. p>
9. halloween 5: the revenge of michael myers (1989)
halloween 4 ends with michael’s niece jamie attacking her adoptive mother, but halloween 5 ruins that potentially terrifying twist by establishing an unexplained psychic connection between michael and jamie implying that he was possessing her. It’s like the lightning bolt scar from Harry Potter, but with more screaming. it never really works, and neither does the introduction of a secondary villain, the man in black.
8. halloween (2007)
rob zombie spends the first hour of his new version trying to explain why michael is the way he is, which is unnecessary and unsuccessful. A lot of people have dark childhoods and don’t grow up to be serial killers, Rob! this halloween is also two hours long, which is an absolutely unbelievable length for a horror movie, and is significantly more violent than the ones from the 80s and 90s. scary movies should be scary, yes, but the heightened gore here doesn’t quite fit into an otherwise relatively cheesy franchise.
7. halloween: the curse of michael myers (1995)
Like many beloved franchises before and since, the Halloween sequels have a real knack for undermining everything that was great about the original; he sets out to unravel the mystery of why michael never dies. “it just doesn’t” had been going for nearly 20 years, but michael myers’ curse makes it a completely wrong thing involving witchcraft, runes, and human sacrifice. . At least there’s a young Paul Rudd as an adult Tommy Doyle, who, as you can imagine, is still struggling with “my babysitter was almost killed in front of me” post-traumatic disorder.
6. halloween 4: the return of michael myers (1988)
when halloween iii without michael failed to impress anyone, the writers brought it back for halloween 4 and introduced laurie strode’s daughter jamie (who died in a car accident) and the niece of Michael Myers. There’s an excellent, super dark twist at the end, but it’s hard to get over the feeling of wanting Michael to mess with someone his own size.
5. halloween ii (1981)
The first sequel to halloween is one of the best installments in the franchise, but it nonetheless suffers from a serious case of not needing to exist. The original halloween has a perfect ending: michael walks away from tommy doyle’s house unscathed, to wreak havoc in an unknown future, but halloween ii posits that he just… He walked towards the hospital and came after Laurie again. like, an hour later. Still, Donald Pleasence is in great shape here, and there’s a chillingly gruesome murder in the hospital’s physical therapy pool.
4. halloween iii: season of the witch (1982)
halloween iii is the tokyo drift of this franchise – it has almost nothing to do with the overall story, but it’s actually a bit of fun once you get through stop the fact. that you’re dealing with a whole new, mostly irrelevant set of characters. in the witch season, the original halloween exists as a piece of fiction (seen on TVs throughout the film) and the villain is a toy company called silver shamrock. , who plans to assassinate the entire us. population using microchips implanted in their popular Halloween masks. but that’s not even the best part; Of course it would be the fact that the killing energy comes from a piece of stonehenge that silver clover somehow imported to northern california. the 80’s were wild!
3. halloween ii (2009)
the first rob zombie halloween is, as stated, a glitch, but the second one is almost perfect. it’s full of great callbacks to the originals, and in some cases even improves on the weirder plot notes that were never put together in the previous sequels. it’s also genuinely scary in a way most halloween movies aren’t: the last five minutes are downright unsettling.
2. halloween h20: twenty years later (1998)
<img class=”small-portrait-size_2x wp-image-5413273″ src=”https://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/halloweeen-movies-ranking-michael-meyers11.jpg ?w=560″ alt=”josh hartnet and jamie lee curtis while john and laurie walked in “halloween h20″”. width=”560″ height=”371″ /> nicola goode—dimension/kobal/shutterstockjosh hartnet and jamie lee curtis as john and laurie in “halloween h20”.
h20 not as scary as the original halloween, but it’s exciting to see jamie lee curtis back as laurie strode along, and the introduction of a new scenery. —northern california, where laurie lives under an assumed name—adds a much-needed jolt of freshness. It’s also so perfectly ’90s, it’s hard not to love it: dawson’s creek-era josh hartnett and michelle williams star as high school students, and ll cool j plays a security guard passing his free time writing erotica. perfection!
1. halloween (1978)
the original halloween is a masterpiece, full stop. none of the sequels have ever come close to replicating that feeling of dread, and few horror films overall have done so much with so little: a man standing behind a bush, a car sneaking down a suburban street on a cloudy day . If John Carpenter’s score in the opening credits doesn’t forever ruin your ability to look at a pumpkin without feeling a little scared, then congratulations! you are michael myers
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