John Carpenter brought us one of the greatest horror icons in 1978's Halloween, and Michael Myers has continued to terrify audiences -- not to mention Jamie Lee Curtis' scream queen supreme, Laurie Strode -- for decades.
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Halloween
(2018)
79%
Critics Consensus:
Halloween largely wipes the slate clean after decades of disappointing sequels, ignoring increasingly elaborate mythology in favor of basic - yet still effective - ingredients.
Starring:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak
Director:
David Gordon Green
H2: Halloween II
(2009)
21%
Critics Consensus:
Zombie shows flashes of vision in the follow-up to his Halloween reboot, but they're smothered by mountains of gore and hackneyed, brutal violence.
Starring:
Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Danielle Harris
Director:
Rob Zombie
Halloween
(2007)
27%
Critics Consensus:
Rob Zombie doesn't bring many new ideas to the table in Halloween, making it another bloody disappointment for fans of the franchise.
Starring:
Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Tyler Mane
Director:
Rob Zombie
Halloween: Resurrection
(2002)
11%
Critics Consensus:
The only thing this tired slasher flick may resurrect is nostalgia for when the genre was still fresh and scary.
Starring:
Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director:
Rick Rosenthal
Halloween H20
(1998)
52%
Critics Consensus:
Halloween: H2O is the best of the many sequels, yet still pales in comparison to the original Halloween.
Starring:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Michelle Williams
Director:
Steve Miner
6%
Critics Consensus:
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers trades the simple, brutal effectiveness of the original for convoluted mysticism, with disastrously dull results.
Starring:
Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Mitchell Ryan
Director:
Joe Chappelle
13%
Critics Consensus:
Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers finds the series embracing crude slasher conventions with pedestrian scares, disposable characters, and aimless plotting.
Starring:
Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence, Wendy Kaplan
Director:
Dominique Othenin-Girard
30%
Critics Consensus:
Halloween 4: The Return Of Michaels Myers may bring the series' masked killer back into the fold, but fails to offer the visceral scares and inventiveness of the original.
Starring:
Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, George P. Wilbur
Director:
Dwight H. Little, Mark Cullingham
42%
Critics Consensus:
Its laudable deviation from series formula not withstanding, Halloween III: Season Of The Witch offers paltry thrills and dubious plotting.
Starring:
Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy
Director:
Tommy Lee Wallace
Halloween II
(1981)
28%
Critics Consensus:
Halloween II picks up where its predecessor left off - and quickly wanders into a dead end that the franchise would spend decades struggling to find its way out of.
Starring:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeffrey Kramer, Charles Cyphers
Director:
John Carpenter, Rick Rosenthal
Halloween
(1978)
96%
Critics Consensus:
Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, Halloween set the standard for modern horror films.
Starring:
Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes
Director:
John Carpenter