What do you think of the Halloween movies?

[xmascarol25]

Actually I love the first one the best.The remake was just awful.Part three made no sense.It had nothing to do with Michael Myers. I cannot tell you how many times I saw that movie.I hate it when they cut out certain parts.If you had to pick who would u like Michael Myers or Jason from Friday the 13th.I like Michael.

[endo]

I love Halloween 3, but it should have been called something else. Nothing to do with Michael Myers at all and it was kind of a pretty mean trick to let people think it was  another Myers film when it released.
I love the movie, love the cast, all of it. But, it shouldn't have had the Halloween franchise name attached.

As for Jason or Michael, that's a tough call. Can't seem to actually kill either of them, lol. I'd call it a draw.

[NDX]

I believe Halloween was meant to be an anthology like series where each film was a different story, like AHS or Fargo shows. But they screwed that up off the bat by having the second flick be a direct sequel to the first.

[endo]

I've read that Carpenter didn't want to do any more after the first two, at least at the time. They brought in Wallace to direct the third one and went another direction with it.
So, yeah, if it was meant to be an anthology, maybe they were trying to get back on that track with the third one. But, after the first two, to associate it with them name wise was pretty underhanded IMO. You know most people were expecting Michael Myers back and were probably PO'ed when they found out it had nothing to with him.
I think this movie gets a lot of unfair hate for just that reason.

[gorepolice]

Of the main franchises, this one is on the lower end of the scale. The first 3 are great, the rest are a mixed bag.

4 sucks, 5 is bad but I have a soft spot for it for some reason. 6 is complete garbage, H20 is boring and generic, Resurrection I actually enjoy since it at least tried to do something a little different.

The Rob Zombie remakes are abysmal and 2018 stunk to me.

[NDX]

I'm not a huge fan of the Halloween franchise overall outside of the third movie. I do enjoy some of the flicks but in the end I don't revisit the series like I do Friday the 13th or A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Michael Myers does have an amazing design due to his size and that mask. It really adds to the fear factor of it all. For someone who has no facial features technically he emotes yeah pretty well in certain scenes.

[leangreen76]

Love them as a whole, but aguably get more and more flawed as they went along.

Halloween - The best of course, watch it every year and never get tired of it. Using the old hitcockian "What you think you saw" without the neeed for blood and gore.

Halloween II - Fun if lackluster, but at least Pleasance starts to ham things up ("You don't know what death is!" - One of my favourite lines). Maybe a bit undrated, despite some flaws.

Halloween III: Season Of The Witch: - Again I agree with the concencus it should've been released as "Season Of The Witch" without ties to the Halloween Franchise. Deserving of it's cult classic status it became even though it was hugely unpopular when released. If you look at as a Halloween film interms of the holiday and not the franchise then it's actually a good story.

Halloween IV: The Return Of Micheal Myers: I personally love this film, Pleasance is really hamming it up and Danielle Harris is a competannt child actor. Attempts to do something interesting at the end which is sadly completetly reversed in the next film. Does have the formulmatic teens but it is a guilty pleasure film.

Halloween V: The Revenge Of Micheal Myers A joke and literally should've been a comedy. Fails to capitalise on the last film, reduces a notable child actor to a mute for 3/4 of the film, hokey police officers (Complete with clown music), terrible boy actor playing "Billy" and don't get me started on the BS cult of thorn stuff inserts that won't be fully explained until next film.

Halloween VI: The Curse Of Micheal Myers I've seen a few different versions and still none of them good. Again Myers is best as unstopping killing machine without reasoning. Trying to "explain Michael" and why he does what hew does with some cult originas breaks the golden rule of having mystery and takes away every.bit.of.mistique.

Halloween: H20: Personally like this one alot, went to see it at the cinema and was actually on the edge of my seat with the Laurie/Keri stop running twist. Like IV V and VI there are mask issues again but it mixed a woman livving with a nightmare blending in the traditional teen aspect at a private school.

Halloween: Resurrection Garbage. falls into the so bad it's good only for Busta Ryhymes, the is unforgivable even then for crapping on everything the least film accomplished.

Rob Zombie's Halloween - Enjoyed the modern take on the first half (rest is garbage.) Again however, it tries to explain stuff breaking the golden rule. You won't miss much by skipping it.

Rob Zombie's Halloween II Have never watched.

Hallowen 2018 - Enjoyed it, did I love it, no. Has it's moments.

[classichorrorfan]

The first three of the original series are some of my all time favorites. I do like the other sequels a lot, but they are not nearly as high up on my list as the first three. I also like H20 a lot as well. I was even impressed with Halloween 2018, and found it interesting seeing Michael Meyers as an old man with gray hair, going bald for a change. I am still yet to see Halloween Kills. The remake and its sequel are nowhere near as good, and I can do without those.

[NDX]

H20 was my first Halloween movie I saw so I'll always view that through rose tinted nostalgia glasses.