Halloween Watch Order

25 Oct 1978

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

30 Oct 1981

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

21 Oct 1988

Ten years later, Michael returns for his niece.

13 Oct 1989

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

29 Sept 1995

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

5 Aug 1998

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

12 Jul 2002

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

31 Aug 2007

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

28 Aug 2009

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

19 Oct 2018

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

15 Oct 2021

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

14 Oct 2022

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

22 Oct 1982

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