Every Halloween Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
2. Halloween (2018)
Plot: This direct sequel to the original ignores all of the other films and sees Michael Myers, having escaped from prison, returning to Haddonfield to terrorise its residents once more.
Halloween (2018) is the sequel we were waiting for forty years.
The film not only scrubs all the sequels from existence, but basically served as a delightful middle finger to all the mistakes they made. The twist about Laurie and Michael being siblings was retconned, the gore is done intelligently, Michael Myers is a mysterious bogeyman figure once more and there's a strong emphasis on tension over violence.
Basically, this is how you do a franchise course correct.
As well as being exactly what the franchise needed, it's also a really good movie and one of the best slasher films of all time. Admittedly, there's a terrible plot twist, some of the dialogue is cringey and it's not very scary, but it is incredibly suspenseful, it makes you care about Michael's victims and the kills are genuinely disturbing.
As well as this, the third act is phenomenal, Jamie Lee Curtis is brilliant, the cast is generally excellent and the film beautifully mixes its bone-crunching brutality with heartfelt emotional drama, making it a hugely powerful horror film.
It's definitely one of the best horror sequels of the last 20 years... and maybe among the best ever.