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Halloween Watch Order

Thirteen films, five timelines, and one film with no Michael Myers at all.

Every Halloween film in order, with the five competing timelines explained — the original continuity, the H20 branch, the Rob Zombie remakes, the 2018 trilogy, and Season of the Witch.

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13 titles across 5 timelines

The Original Continuity

1978 – 1995 · Timeline A · The 1978 film and its direct sequels.

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Halloween

25 Oct 1978

Carpenter's original. Every branch of the franchise starts here, and it remains the best of them.

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Halloween II

30 Oct 1981

Picks up the same night, in the hospital. Introduces the sibling twist that later films keep undoing.

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

21 Oct 1988

Ten years later, Michael returns for his niece.

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

13 Oct 1989

A direct sequel to part 4, and the point the original run starts to lose its way.

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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

29 Sept 1995

Explains Michael with a cult and a curse. The end of the original continuity.

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The H20 Branch

1998 – 2002 · Timeline B · Ignores parts 4, 5 and 6.

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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

5 Aug 1998

Ignores parts 4, 5 and 6 entirely. Laurie Strode faked her death and has been hiding for two decades.

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Halloween: Resurrection

12 Jul 2002

Undoes H20's ending in its opening minutes, then sets a reality show in the Myers house.

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The Rob Zombie Films

2007 – 2009 · Timeline C · A full remake and its sequel.

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Halloween (2007)

31 Aug 2007

Rob Zombie's remake, with a long origin section the original deliberately withheld.

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Halloween II (2009)

28 Aug 2009

Zombie's sequel to his own remake, and far stranger than the first.

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The 2018 Trilogy

2018 – 2022 · Timeline D · Follows 1978 and nothing else.

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Halloween (2018)

19 Oct 2018

A direct sequel to the 1978 film that ignores all nine films in between, including the sibling twist.

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Halloween Kills

15 Oct 2021

The same night as the 2018 film, with the town turning into a mob.

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Halloween Ends

14 Oct 2022

Four years on, and largely about a different character. Divisive is putting it mildly.

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Season of the Witch

1982 · Standalone · No Michael Myers. Genuinely unrelated.

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch

22 Oct 1982

No Michael Myers, no Laurie Strode — an attempt to make Halloween an anthology. Hated in 1982, well liked now.

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