Halloween (franchise)

Halloween is an American horror franchise that consists of ten films, novels, and comic books. The franchise focuses on the fictional character of Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his older sister, Judith Myers. Fifteen years later, he escapes to stalk and kill the people of Haddonfield, Illinois while being chased by his former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis. Michael's killings occur on the holiday of Halloween, on which all of the films primarily take place. (Michael Myers is the antagonist in all of the films except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the story of which has no direct connection to any other film in the series.)

Original series

 * Halloween (1978)
 * Halloween II (1982)
 * Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1984)
 * Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
 * Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1990)
 * Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1994)
 * Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
 * Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
 * Halloween (2018)
 * Halloween Kills (2020)
 * Halloween Ends (2021)

Series reboot AKA Rob Zombie's Halloween

 * Halloween (2007)
 * Halloween II (2009)

About

 * I didn’t think there was any more story, and I didn’t want to do it again. All of my ideas were for the first Halloween – there shouldn’t have been any more! I’m flattered by the fact that people want to remake them, but they remake everything these days, so it doesn’t make me that special. But Michael Myers was an absence of character. And yet all the sequels are trying to explain that. That’s silliness – it just misses the whole point of the first movie, to me. He’s part person, part supernatural force. The sequels rooted around in motivation. I thought that was a mistake. However, I couldn’t stop them from making sequels. So my agents said, ‘Why don’t you become an executive producer and you can share the revenue?’ But I had to write the second movie, and every night I sat there and wrote with a six pack of beer trying to get through this thing. And I didn’t do a very good job, but that was it. I couldn’t do anymore.
 * John Carpenter "John Carpenter Q&A: Why ‘Halloween’ Didn’t Need Sequels & What Scares The Master Of Horror" Jen Yamato, Deadline, Oct 31 2014.