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Directed by David Gordon Green, the new film depicts what is purportedly the final battle between gun-toting former babysitter Laurie Strode ([Jamie Lee Curtis](https://time.com/5434332/jamie-lee-curtis-halloween-movie/)) and Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney and Nick Castle), the masked murderer who’s been taunting her since her teen years. Green’s new trilogy—which kicked off in 2018 with the simply titled _Halloween_—brought new life to the aging series, but some of Michael’s past adventures remain extremely missable. Here, a ranking of all the Michael Myers Halloween movies from the franchise, from worst to best. ## _13\. Halloween: Resurrection_ (2002)  Tyra Banks in "Halloween: Resurrection". Kimberley French—Miramax/Shutterstock In theory this movie has a lot of things going for it—Tyra Banks, Busta Rhymes, and a semi-interesting reality show premise—but in practice, it’s just lackluster, which is why it earned this last spot on the Michael Myers Halloween movie ranking. Though other _Halloween_ sequels definitely overdid the “Michael’s here for his last living relative” thing, watching a bunch of annoying strangers try to outrun him is even less compelling. ## _12\. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers_ (1989)  Donald L. Shanks as Michael Myers in "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael" Magnum/Shutterstock _Halloween 4_ ends with Michael’s niece Jamie attacking her foster mother, but _Halloween 5_ ruins that potentially scary twist by establishing an unexplained psychic connection between Michael and Jamie that implies he was possessing her. It’s like Harry Potter’s lightning bolt scar, but with more screaming. It never really works, and neither does the introduction of a secondary villain, the Man in Black. ## _11\. Halloween_ (2007)  Danny Trejo as Ismael Cruz, Tyler Mane as Michael Myers and Lew Temple as Noel Kluggs in "Halloween". Snap Stills/Shutterstock Rob Zombie spends the first hour of his remake trying to explain _why_ Michael is the way he is, which is both unnecessary and unsuccessful. Plenty of people have dark childhoods and don’t grow up to be serial killers, Rob! This _Halloween_ is also two hours long, which is an absolutely insane length for a horror movie, and is significantly more violent than the ’80s and ’90s ones. Scary movies should be scary, yes, but the heightened gore here doesn’t quite fit in a franchise that is otherwise relatively campy. ## _10\. Halloween Kills_ (2021) Like Halloween II (1981), _Halloween Kills_ picks up where its immediate predecessor left off — with Michael on the loose, Laurie in the hospital, and the town of Haddonfield desperately trying to stop another killing spree. The movie is light on scares, but there are a few delightful nods to past entries that make it worth a watch: the spooky masks from Season of the Witch and the return of Kyle Richards as Lindsey, one of the kids Laurie was babysitting in the 1978 original. ## _9\. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers_ (1995)  A still of Michael Myers in "Halloween The Curse Of Michael Myers" Moviestore/Shutterstock Like many beloved franchises before and after it, The _Halloween_ sequels have a real knack for undercutting everything cool about the original; this one sets out to ruin the mystery of why Michael never dies. “He just doesn’t” had been working for nearly 20 years, but _The Curse of Michael Myers_ makes it into a whole misguided _thing_ involving witchcraft, runes, and human sacrifice. At least there’s a young Paul Rudd as adult Tommy Doyle, who, as you might imagine, is still struggling with post-traumatic “my babysitter almost got murdered in front of my face” disorder. ## 8\. _Halloween Ends_ (2022) _Halloween Ends_ is allegedly the final entry in the series, but as viewers know, this franchise has come back to life more times than Michael. If it is indeed the last one, then it does provide a somewhat satisfying conclusion to the saga of Laurie and her boogeyman, complete with a shockingly funny montage that—major spoiler alert—proves Michael is really, truly dead this time. Richards is back again too, but a convoluted plot line about a would-be Michael imitator sinks this one a bit farther down the list. ## _7\. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers_ (1988)  George P. Wilbur as Michael Myers in "Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers". Mayfair/Trancas/Kobal/Shutterstock When the Michael-less _Halloween III_ failed to impress anyone, the writers brought him back for _Halloween 4_ and introduced Jamie, the daughter of Laurie Strode (who has died in a car accident) and the niece of Michael Myers. There’s an excellent, super-dark twist at the end, but it’s hard to get past the feeling of wanting Michael to pick on someone his own size. ## _6\. Halloween II_ (1981)  Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in "Halloween II". Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock The first _Halloween_ sequel is one of the better entries in the franchise, but it nonetheless suffers from a serious case of not needing to exist. The original _Halloween_ has a perfect ending—Michael strolls away from Tommy Doyle’s house unharmed, to wreak unknowable future havoc—but _Halloween II_ posits that he just…walked over to the hospital and came after Laurie again. Like, an hour later. Still, Donald Pleasence is in fine scenery-chewing form here, and there’s a chillingly gruesome murder in the hospital’s physical therapy pool. ## _5\. Halloween III: Season of the Witch_ (1982)  A scene from "Halloween III - Season Of The Witch". Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock _Halloween III_ is the _Tokyo Drift_ of this franchise—it has almost nothing to do with the overarching storyline, but is actually kind of fun once you get past the fact that you’re dealing with a whole new, mostly irrelevant set of characters. In _Season of the Witch_, the original _Halloween_ exists as a piece of fiction (you see it playing on TVs throughout the movie) and the villain is a toy company called Silver Shamrock, which plans to murder the entire U.S. population using microchips implanted in their wildly popular Halloween masks. But that’s not even the best part—that would of course be the fact that the murder energy is coming from a piece of Stonehenge that Silver Shamrock somehow imported to Northern California. The ’80s were wild! ## _4\. Halloween II_ (2009)  Tyler Mane as Michael Myers in "Halloween II" The first Rob Zombie _Halloween_ is, as established, a miss, but the second one is close to perfect. It’s full of great callbacks to the originals, and in some instances even improves upon weirder plot notes that never quite came together in earlier sequels. It’s also genuinely terrifying in a way that most of the _Halloween_ movies are not—the last five minutes are downright haunting. ## 3\. _Halloween_ (2018) Green’s reboot wiped the slate clean by erasing continuity from all previous _Halloween_ films except the 1978 original—a real boon for fans who didn’t love when _Halloween II_ (1981) established Laurie as Michael’s sister. The premise remains the same—Michael, slashing as many people as possible—but there are enough modern touches to keep the movie fresh. It begins, for example, with two true-crime podcasters visiting Michael in prison and taunting him with his mask. Laurie, meanwhile, has spent the past 40 years coping with the trauma of the night Michael came home. The film ends with a cliffhanger that hints Michael is still alive, but it can still stand alone thanks in part to performances from new additions Will Patton, Judy Greer, and Omar Dorsey. ## _2\. Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later_ (1998) _H20_ isn’t anywhere near as scary as the original _Halloween_, but it’s thrilling to see Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode, and the introduction of a new setting—northern California, where Laurie is living under an assumed name—adds a much-needed jolt of freshness. It’s also just so perfectly ’90s that’s it hard not to love it: Josh Hartnett and a _Dawson’s Creek_–era Michelle Williams star as high schoolers, and LL Cool J plays a security guard who spends his downtime writing erotica. Perfection! ## _1\. Halloween (1978)_  Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie in "Halloween". Mary Evans—Compass International Pictures The original _Halloween_ is a masterpiece, full stop. None of the sequels have ever come close to replicating that feeling of dread, and few horror movies in general have done as much with so little—a man standing behind a shrub, a car creeping down a suburban street on a cloudy day. If John Carpenter’s score in the opening credits doesn’t forever ruin your ability to look at a jack-o’-lantern without feeling a _little_ bit scared, then congratulations! 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