Every Halloween Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

Plot: 15 years after murdering his sister as a child, Michael Myers returns to his home-town to kill once again on Halloween night.

Halloween is the stuff that nightmares are made of.

As the story of an inexplicable, unstoppable and borderline supernatural force of evil invading a completely normal town and stalking a group of realistic, believable characters, Halloween already has a horrifyingly effective premise but it goes far, far beyond that.

Thanks to John Carpenter's note-perfect directing, an electrifying musical score, suffocatingly atmospheric visuals and some of the most nerve-shredding, scream-inducing and frankly harrowing set-pieces you'll ever, Halloween is one of the scariest and most horrifying films ever made.

Factor in the watertight pacing and terrific performances from Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance and you've got a living, breathing cinematic nightmare that'll have even the hardest viewers sucking their thumbs in terror.

Halloween spawned the slasher sub-genre, which is pretty ironic. Slasher movies might be iconic, but the majority of them really aren't very good, yet the film that really started this subgenre is one of the greatest horror films ever made.

It does have some iffy dialogue here and there, but other than that Halloween is an exceptional film that's ageing incredibly well, and it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that the Halloween franchise will never top it.