Halloween (franchise)

Imagine, if you will, a long-running franchise of horror movies featuring a William Shatner lookalike killer who goes around chopping up people, dying and coming back to life over and over. Now imagine that movie franchise has been endlessly milked and rebooted. What you have is the Halloween movie series and franchise. While not spanning more films than the endless Friday the 13th series, the series manages to have a very loppy semi-continuity, with the original 1978 film serving as the jumping off point for all but the two shitty Rob Zombie-produced remakes.

The main character is serial killer Michael Myers, a masked psycho on a quest to kill off the rest of his family. Not to be confused with a very different Mike Myers.

Halloween 1 (1978) and Halloween 2

Halloween 1 and 2 are basically the same movie. But since Halloween 1 did so well, the producers made a second one which takes place on the same night as the first one and continues from the first one. Both are pretty good slasher flicks... for the 1970s/1980s. Also - there's tits in the first one, for ya pervs interested in that.

Halloween 3 Season of the Witch

Doesn't feature Michael Myers at all. The directors wanted to originally make Halloween as a yearly standalone anthology film with different characters for each one, so that was the driving point behind this crock of shit. Season of The Witch has been almost universally panned by fans of the franchise, almost as maligned as the awful Rob Zombie remakes from the 2000s. The film isn't that bad on its own though.

Rob Zombie's Halloween films

In the late 2000s one hit wonder musician Rob Zombie decided to remake the Halloween films as very brooding long drawn out shitshows. Only somewhat enjoyable if you go in expecting an entirely different take on Michael Myers and the Halloween story. Not canon, but after all the films - what really is?

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