Franchise Fixation: Halloween Ends (2022)
The Shape steps aside, a new evil moves in, and thirteen movies bring us back to the beginning.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween Kills (2021)
Evil dies tonight. Unfortunately, it takes the screenplay down with it.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween (2018)
Forty years after the original, Laurie Strode returns to confront Michael Myers again. Halloween (2018) has some genuinely effective scares and welcome performances, but I find it much easier to appreciate in pieces than as a whole.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween II (2009)
Freed from the constraints of remaking John Carpenter's original, Rob Zombie takes Halloween in a direction entirely his own. I just wish I liked where he took it.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween (2007)
Rob Zombie brings Michael Myers back to Haddonfield. I wish I had enjoyed the trip more.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
A terrible sequel, a strangely watchable movie, and the man who gave Michael Myers a kung-fu lesson.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Twenty years later, Laurie Strode returns. Twenty-eight years later, I finally appreciate it.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Six years after Halloween 5, Michael Myers returns with a new mythology, a troubled production, and Donald Pleasence's final appearance as Dr. Loomis. The Curse of Michael Myers delivers plenty of Halloween atmosphere, but does it deliver any satisfying answers?
Franchise Fixation: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Just one year after Halloween 4 brought Michael Myers back from the dead, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers nearly buried the franchise again. A rushed production, baffling creative decisions, and misguided attempts at humor make this one of the series' dullest installments.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, but Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell give Halloween 4 its heart. Franchise Fixation continues with an autumn atmosphere, an increasingly unhinged Dr. Loomis, and an ending that still leaves a mark.
Franchise Fixation: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch took a huge swing by leaving Michael Myers behind. More than four decades later, has this once-maligned sequel gone from underrated to almost overrated?
Franchise Fixation: Halloween II (1981)
The night he came home isn't over yet, but three years later, horror had already changed.