The best order to watch all the Halloween movies

The best order to watch all the Halloween movies
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
.Halloween (1978)
The first Halloween film kicks off Halloween night, of course, in 1963. We see a six-year-old Michael Myers murder his older sister with a kitchen knife at 45 Lampkin Lane. Fifteen years pass and Myers breaks out from an institution where he’s been held, and his psychiatrist, Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasance), is forced to chase him. 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 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, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris). For those wondering, Laurie “died” in an off-screen car accident before the events in Hallowen 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.Show more

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. 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. 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.
Michael Myers, naturally, arrives just in time for a Halloween family reunion.
HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION (2002)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
This installment sees two things we never thought we’d see: Michael Myers finally gets to kill Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), and he gets to karate-fight Busta Rhymes. The film opens with Laurie institutionalised following the events of H20 three years earlier, and Michael comes to pay her a visit. 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)
The highest-grossing film in the franchise is also the most recent. It's another reboot, but it serves as a direct sequel to the original Halloween, meaning it treats all the other movies as if they didn’t happen. Since it was so successful, it's about to finish off it's own trilogy with Halloween Ends release on 14 October.
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. She keeps in touch with her granddaughter, Allyson (Andi Matichak), but rarely sees her daughter, who was taken away from her as a child. Luckily, Myers breaks out of an asylum to host some family therapy. David Gordon Green directed this Halloween film. Green also directed two sequels to this film: Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.

Halloween Kills (2021)
The latest instalment 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. The film also sees the return of Judy Greer and Andu Matichak as Laurie Strode's daughter and granddaughter, Karen and Alyson Nelson, respectively.