Every Halloween Series Timeline Ranked From Worst To Best

Which Movies? Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, Halloween: Resurrection

Two decades before the new forty year reunion, H20 brought Curtis back as Laurie Strode for the first reboot of the Michael Myers timeline. Originally planned as "Halloween 7: The Revenge Of Laurie Strode", the seventh film instead decided to capitalise on Curtis' return by ditching most of what had come before and bring the focus back to Laurie instead.

Since The Curse Of Michael Myers, Scream had been released and revitalised flagging interest in the slasher genre with its postmodern take. H20 emerged from a pitch from Scream writer Kevin Williamson and, while he doesn't have a credit on the final screenplay, his rewrites as script doctor give this reboot some of the same knowing tone as his earlier hit.

Halloween, Halloween II, and H20 make for a fairly satisfying Halloween trilogy which seems quite neatly wrapped up at the end. Laurie survives her first confrontation with Michael, he comes back after her specifically, revealing that they are brother and sister, then twenty years later Michael tracks her and her son down again and she finally kills him.

If you were to choose just to watch those three then you can probably bump this entry up one place on the list. But this reboot timeline doesn't, unfortunately, end there. Producers Dimension couldn't just leave it alone, which meant that four years later Michael came back from his decapitation with Halloween: Resurrection.

Resurrection is perhaps the worst movie in any of the various Halloween series. It clumsily retcons Michael's death and then has him bump off Laurie almost immediately to instead go after some complete non-entity victims and only gets worse from there. Even more than the Curse series, this mini-series suffers immensely from the quality of its final instalment.