
The franchise-worst mask on Michael’s head makes it look like even he’s getting a little bored with the return trip to Haddonfield every dang year, and who could blame the guy? He’s stuck slow-walkin’ once again after his niece, Jamie Lloyd ( Danielle Harris)-robbed of both the intriguing ending of Halloween IV and her voice-alongside her older friend, Tina Williams ( Wendy Kaplan), Halloween’s most unforgettable character. The Revenge of Michael Myers is this story’s spiral into blah-ness, a slasher series that has officially lost any sense of what made it sharp in the first place. Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers isn’t technically as bad as the entry that came after it, but at least The Curse of Michael Myers is gonzo enough to be interesting. It’s important to keep hyperbole out of any film ranking, so please know that I am being both calm and rational when I say every person involved in putting that slide whistle over the two bumbling cops in this movie should be fired out of a cannon into the Pacific ocean. RELATED: A Guide to All the Different 'Halloween' Timelines But at its best and its worst, there's still no denying the power this franchise-and, most specifically, its unlikely leading man, Michael Myers-has held over the horror genre for decades.īelow, you'll find every Halloween movie, ranked from worst to best. Rushmore greats to historically bad stinkers not even worth your time as a Halloween trick. It's been a wild ride that veers dramatically in quality from all-time Mt. With this hauntingly simple premise, John Carpenter officially-and, by all accounts, unwillingly-kicked off the Halloween franchise, now four decades old and counting, a slasher monolith that's branched off into multiple timelines, several reboots, expanded lore involving ancient Druid cults and a young Paul Rudd, plus one brief pitstop to follow a psychotic mask manufacturer who tries to murder every child in the world with his catchy company jingle.


A madman escapes from a mental institution, returns to his hometown wearing a $2 William Shatner mask, and murders three innocent teens without mercy, emotion, or motive.
