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Halloween

Thirteen films and four incompatible timelines, all growing out of the same 1978 night.

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Where to start with Halloween

Only the 1978 film is in every version of this story. After that the series splits four ways, and the branches actively contradict each other, so the job is to pick one and stay in it rather than to watch all thirteen in order.

  1. 1
    Halloween (1978) Halloween

    The film every other one is a sequel to, and the only one all four timelines agree happened. Nothing comes before it.

  2. 2
    Halloween (2018) Halloween

    A direct sequel to the 1978 film made forty years later that treats every other sequel as if it never happened. Two films in and you are already current, which no other branch offers.

  3. 3
    Halloween II (1981) Halloween II

    The other road out of the original, picking up the same night it ends. Take this instead if you would rather have the older run, and it leads into both the Thorn and H20 timelines below.

Then what? After that you are choosing a branch rather than continuing a line. Halloween Kills and Ends finish the modern trilogy; 4, 5 and Curse finish the Thorn one; H20 and Resurrection are the third. The two Rob Zombie films are a remake with no connection to any of them, and Halloween III has no Michael Myers in it and is best treated as a strange one-off.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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