What's the best order to watch all the Halloween movies?

- "Was that the boogeyman?"

Every Halloween movie in chronological order

Halloween (1978)

Halloween II (1981)

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Halloween (2018)

Halloween Kills (2021)

Halloween (2007)

Halloween II (2009)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Where does the new Halloween movie fit in chronologically?

Halloween Ends (2022)

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What's the best order to watch all the Halloween movies?

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- "Was that the boogeyman?"

(Pocket-lint) - Halloween is the perfect time to watch one of the scariest guys to ever wear a jumpsuit: Michael Myers. His reign of terror started decades ago and now spans a dozen Halloween films. But they don't all follow a neat order.

- "Was that the boogeyman?"

The franchise has been rebooted a couple times, plus there's even a Rob Zombie remake of the original film. The latest reboot, which started in 2018, has a third installment coming out in October 2022 called Halloween Ends.

- "Was that the boogeyman?"

Given that there are reboots and sequels and remakes, it can be hard to cobble together a chronological order for the Halloween movies. It's not impossible though, since most of them enter around Michael Myers stalking Laurie Strode.

- "Was that the boogeyman?"

So, we’ve made an order that follows the king of slasher flicks from his early days at 45 Lampkin Lane to today.

Every Halloween movie in chronological order

We’ve included a spoiler-free version of this guide at the bottom, along with a theatrical release date and reboot orders. NOTE: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS BELOW.

Halloween (1978)

Halloween (1978)

Myers returns to his old home town of Haddonfield, Illinois to prey on some unsuspecting babysitters led by Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode. John Carpenter directed this film and wrote it with Debra Hill.

Halloween II (1981)

Picking up right at the end of the original film, we see Laurie transported to a hospital after supposedly defeating Michael Myers. But he gets up and walks away from a series of stabbings and gunshot wounds that would otherwise kill most people. Although Dr Loomis initially thinks Michael

Halloween II (1981)

has been indiscriminately targeting babysitters, he soon learns the killer is after Laurie for a specific reason.

Halloween II (1981)

has been indiscriminately targeting babysitters, he soon learns the killer is after Laurie for a specific reason. Rick Rosenthal directed this film, but John Carpenter returned to write and produce it with Debra Hill.

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Yes, we skipped Halloween III. More on that later. Halloween IV, directed by Dwight Little, picks up 10 years after the events of the first two films, with Michael Myers awakening from a coma and heading out to find and kill Laurie’s daughter,

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris). For those wondering, Laurie “died” in an off-screen car accident before the events in Halloween 4. Also, John Carpenter didn't write or produce this film. He did Halloween III but doesn't come back to the franchise until 2018's Halloween.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

The end of Halloween 4 saw Michael Myers shot repeatedly and thrown down a mineshaft. This fifth film sees his body wash up in a creek, where a man who lives alone in the woods finds him.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

He spends a year taking care of Michael’s comatose body before he awakes on Halloween night. Michael immediately kills the man and heads out to find Jamie (Danielle Harris), who is in therapy from her last run-in with him.

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Set six years later, The Curse of Michael Myers opens with Jamie, now played by JC Brandy, as a prisoner of a cult that broke Michael free at the end of Halloween 5. She has been forced to carry a child and dies during an escape attempt.

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

She manages to hide her infant, though, who is then found by Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd), the young boy that Laurie Strode babysat in the first Halloween film.

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

H20 opens with Michael Myers vandalising the home of his recently deceased former psychiatrist. He discovers that Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) faked her death and has been living as the principal of a private boarding school that her own son John (Josh Hartnett) attends.

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

Michael Myers, naturally, arrives just in time for a Halloween family reunion.

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

After that, he heads to his old abandoned home to find the contestants of a reality show who want to spend a night with him.

Halloween (2018)

Halloween (2018)

Jamie Lee Curtis once again returns as Laurie Strode. She is still traumatised from the Halloween night 40 years earlier when Michael Myers came home. She is living a reclusive life in a heavily fortified house.

Halloween (2018)

Halloween Kills (2021)

The latest installment in the Michael Myers saga looks to be one of the bloodiest entries yet, according to trailers for the new film. It picks up where 2018's Halloween left off - with Michael trapped in the basement of Laurie Strode's (Jamie Lee Curtis) burning house.

Halloween Kills (2021)

The film also sees the return of Judy Greer and Andu Matichak as Laurie Strode's daughter and granddaughter, Karen and Alyson Nelson, respectively.

Halloween (2007)

Halloween (2007)

We also see his years of therapy with Dr Loomis (Malcolm McDowell). The story still ends in the same place, with Michael escaping and heading back to Haddonfield to find Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton).

Halloween (2007)

We’re putting this film toward the end because it's a separate timeline. It's still good to watch, as it fleshes out Michael's background, but that’s not something everyone wanted, including John Carpenter himself. It doesn’t help that, by the end of Rob Zombie's second Halloween film,

Halloween (2007)

Myers' background and motivations are muddied by a lot of the same characteristics as his slasher-movie brethren Jason Vorhees.

Halloween II (2009)

Halloween II (2009)

Halloween II tries to flesh out the connection between Michael and Laurie. This Zombie film is a reimagining of the Halloween franchise, but it isn’t a great movie. It manages to be darker than the original films, however.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

The final movie in our guide is technically the third-released film from the Halloween franchise. Released in 1982, Season of the Witch is a failed attempt at creating a Halloween anthology series. That means it has nothing to connect it to anything else in the Halloween Universe.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Where does the new Halloween movie fit in chronologically?

Halloween Ends is the final film in the latest reboot trilogy. That means it should fit in neatly after 2021's Halloween Kills.

Halloween Ends (2022)

Halloween Ends picks up four years after the events of Halloween Kills. Laurie's granddaughter, Allyson, is living with her. Remember, in the last movie Michael killed Karen, Laurie's daughter and Allyson's mother.

Halloween Ends (2022)

As far as Michael Myer goes, he hasn't been seen since that Halloween night four years earlier when he killed 43 people. This will probably be the last time we see Jamie Lee Curtis face off against Michael Myers, so it's worth watching just for that.

Halloween Ends (2022)

The film is directed by David Allen Green (who also directed 2018's Halloween and Halloween Kill). It's set to release on 14 October 2022 in theatres and on Peacock. You can check out the latest trailer above.

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