Anybody a fan of the Halloween Series? If not then you should definately check them out...they are, indeed, the best horror movies of all time!!! But if you start renting them here is the best order to watch them in:
Halloween
Halloween II
-The third movie has absolutely NOTHING to do with the main storyline so you can watch that anytime before or after you watch the main series.
That being said, From number 2...there are 2 different continuations you can follow:
1st: Halloween 4, Halloween 5, and Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers
..The 2nd continuation completely ignores the events from 4 5 and 6 because one of the most important characters of the story (Donald Pleasance) died shortly after the 6th finished filming...so the main character of the 1st and 2nd (Jamie Lee Curtis) decided to make a comeback
2nd: Halloween: Twenty Years Later(H:20), and Halloween: Ressurection
....On August 31st, Rob Zombie's Prequel/Remake/Reinvision of the first film is coming out and looks good as hell!!! I cant wait for it!
Click Here to watch the teaser trailer
so....I guess you guys want a Summary of the original storyline? well....I warn you there will be spoilers!!
So here it is(I actually just spent like 40 mins typing one up but it sucked...so im just gonna copy wikipedia xD) Please note that watching these is ALOT better than reading about them.
Halloween:
On October 31, 1963, six-year-old Michael Audrey Myers stabs his sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. He is sent to Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium and placed under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis. Loomis suspects that there is more to Myers than meets the eye and plans to have him committed indefinitely; he senses a tremendous amount of rage behind Myers' blank stare. Loomis explains to Sheriff Leigh Brackett: "I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply…evil." At the age of 21, Myers escapes from Smith's Grove while being transferred, and returns to Haddonfield with Loomis in pursuit. In Haddonfield, Myers stalks seventeen-year-old Laurie Strode. Laurie glimpses a man in a white mask (Michael Myers) from her classroom window, behind a bush while she walks home, and in the neighbor's clothesline from her bedroom window. Later in the evening, Laurie meets her friend Annie Brackett (Nancy Loomis), who is babysitting Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards) across the street from where Laurie is babysitting Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews). After arranging to pick up her boyfriend, Annie sends Lindsey to stay with Laurie at the Doyle house. Annie heads back to the Wallace house and gets in her car, only to find every window fogged. Myers (who has followed her and Laurie) pops up from the backseat, strangles Annie until she weakens, and slits her throat. Tommy sees him carrying her body into the Wallace house and thinks Myers is the Boogeyman. Laurie dismisses Tommy's terror and sends him and Lindsey to bed. Myers later murders Laurie's other friend Lynda Van Der Klok (P. J. Soles) and Lynda's boyfriend Bob Simms (John Michael Graham) who had arrived at the empty Wallace house and decided to retreat upstairs to have sex after Lynda orders Bob downstairs for a beer. Bob does as told but is attacked by the Shape. The Shape lifts him up against the wall and stabs him once. Bob struggles, then the Shape stabs him, only this time the knife holds Bob up and the Shape stares at him for a brief moment. Lynda, upstairs and bored, sees a shape with a sheet over his body and Bob's glasses. On assuming its Bob she calls the Doyle house but is attacked. Laurie worries after receiving a strange phone call from the Wallace house, thinking it's Annie. It was actually Lynda, screaming as Myers strangled her with the phone cord. She walks across the street and discovers the three bodies and Judith Myers' missing tombstone. She is attacked by Myers but escapes back to the Doyle house. Laurie stabs Myers with a knitting needle in the neck, a clothes hanger in the eye and a knife to the chest, but he continues to pursue her. Eventually, Loomis spots Tommy and Lindsey running from the house and finds Myers in the upstairs hallway. Loomis rescues Laurie, shooting Myers six times and causing him to fall from the house's second-story balcony. Upon looking out the window for Myers' body, however, Loomis discovers that he is nowhere to be found.
The film closes on a shot of the Myers house and the sound of Michael breathing beneath his mask.
Halloween II:
The beginning of the film is a re-shot version of the final scenes of Halloween, concluding with Dr. Loomis finding the body of Michael Myers missing from the lawn. Loomis runs off in search of him. Laurie Strode is taken in an ambulance to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. One of the EMS drivers, Jimmy Lloyd (Lance Guest) begins to show an interest in her. Myers continues to wander Haddonfield in search of her. Jimmy tells Laurie that the man who attacked her was Michael Myers, infamous for murdering his older sister fifteen years earlier on Halloween night. After this, Laurie drifts in and out of consciousness, having strange flashbacks about her adoption by the Strodes and visiting an unpleasant boy in an institution. Dr. Loomis and the Haddonfield police continue to search the town for Myers. At the local elementary school they discover that Myers has broken into a classroom and scrawled the word Samhain in blood on the chalkboard. Loomis explains that it is a Celtic word that means "lord of the dead", the "end of summer", and "October 31" (Samhain's symbolic importance is not elaborated on until later films). Myers learns that Laurie is at the hospital and goes there, murdering the hospital's staff one by one. Laurie manages to elude him, but she is limping badly and sedated and is thus unable to move very quickly. Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens), Loomis's assistant, meets up with the doctor and informs Loomis that he has strict orders to return to Smith's Grove, and that she is accompanied by an armed marshal. In the marshal's car, she tells Loomis that she has discovered a secret file on Myers to which he was not privy. The file reveals that Laurie is actually Myers' sister, adopted by the Strodes after Myers killed his older sister, Judith. At gunpoint, Loomis forces the marshal (John Zenda) and Chambers to drive to the hospital, knowing that Myers will have already tracked Laurie there. Upon arriving, Loomis shoots Myers several times, but to no avail. After Myers kills the marshal, Loomis and Laurie retreat into an operating room, and Laurie shoots Myers in the eyes after Loomis is stabbed. Loomis is able to turn on the oxygen tanks in the operating room, causing an explosion that engulfs him and Myers. Laurie survives and is taken away in another ambulance
SIDE NOTE: The TV version had an alternate storyline where Jimmy also Survives and is in the Ambulance with Laurie crying with joy saying "We made it, We made it!"
First Continuation
Halloween 4-The Return of Michael Myers:
Michael Myers has been in a coma since the events of Halloween II, when his massacre was stopped by Dr. Sam Loomis and Laurie Strode. At the beginning of this film, Myers is being transferred from Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium to Smith's Grove Sanitarium. He awakens when he hears that Laurie Strode, his sister, is deceased, but her daughter is alive and well in Haddonfield. He kills the ambulance crew and escapes. Dr. Loomis races to Haddonfield in an attempt to bring Myers' killing spree to an end once and for all.In Haddonfield, his niece Jamie Lloyd (played by Danielle Harris), has been adopted by the Carruthers family. She has frequent nightmares about Michael, though she does not know who he is. On Halloween night, Jamie goes out trick-or-treating dressed as a clown (a costume that is very similar to the one worn by young Michael Myers at the beginning of the first Halloween film) with her teenage foster sister Rachel Carruthers (played by Ellie Cornell). Her uncle, Michael, follows them. Dr. Loomis, meanwhile, arrives in Haddonfield after an exhausting journey, and contacts the police department to inform them of Myers' disappearance. Haddonfield's new Sheriff Ben Meeker (played by Beau Starr) and him begin to search the town for Michael and Jamie. They find that Myers has singlehandedly annihilated the entire police force. The girls hide in the Sheriff's house, where Michael follows them. They escape and leave Haddonfield, but Myers hides in the back of the truck that they use to escape. The sheriff's deputies catch up to them and shoot Michael several times. He falls into an abandoned mine shaft which collapses on him. Back at the Carruthers house, Jamie puts on her clown mask and stabs her foster mother. It turns out that she was possessed by Myers' rage. Dr. Loomis attempts to shoot her, but Sheriff Meeker prevents it. The film ends with a shot of Jamie, wearing the clown mask, holding bloody scissors. This shot is very similar to the shot near the beginning of the original Halloween, where young Michael Myers is seen holding a bloody knife after killing his older sister, Judith.
Halloween 5-The Revenge of Michael Myers:
The film begins with a recap of Michael Myers being shot at and falling into a mine shaft , from the end of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, but Michael finds a way out and stumbles into a nearby river.He stumbles into a small shack by the river owned by a local hermit.Once there Micheal collapses and remains in a comatose state for a full year. On October 31st 1989, Michael reawakens, kills the hermit and returns to terrorize Haddonfield, where his young niece, Jamie Lloyd (played by Danielle Harris) continues to live after nearly being killed by Michael the year before. Jamie has been unable to speak since attacking her foster mother in a state of shock at the end of part four,but exibits signs of a telepathic link with her evil uncle. Dr. Sam Loomis realizes that this link exists, and plans to use it to put an end to Michael. Michael begins stalking Rachel (Jamie's foster sister) and her friend Tina (played by Wendy Kaplan)After both are killed Jamie agrees to put herself in danger to help Loomis stop Michael for good.With Jamie's help, Loomis lures Michael back to the old Myers House. Michael makes many attempts to kill Jamie, finally getting the chance to kill her in the attic. Jamie in a desperate move,tries apealing to Micheael's humanity by saying "Uncle." This causes Myers to pause. When Jamie asks to see his face, he takes off his mask. A lone tear runs down his face. Jamie reaches up to wipe it away, and Michael is thrown into a rage. Loomis comes to the rescue and attacks Michael, beating him repeatedly with a 2 x 4. They take Michael to the local sheriff's station. However, a mysterious stranger ,dressed in all black, has come to Haddonfield. He shoots all of the officers in the police station. Jamie walks through the station finding the bodies of the dead officers.She goes over to Michael's jail cell to discover that it's empty. Jamie discovers that Michael has disappeared.As Jamie sobs realizing Myers is once again able to get to her,she says No...NO!. The scene then goes black.
Halloween-The Curse of Michael Myers (This summary sucks...so you will definately want to see this movie):
In 1989, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois,while trying to kill his niece, Jamie Lloyd (parts 4 + 5).After a mysterious figure known as The Man in Black frees Michael from police captivity,both Micheal and Jamie disapeared. Most people believed them to be dead. In fact, Jamie has been kidnapped, and impregnated by a group of evil Druids bent on controling Michael Myers. But after giving birth, Jamie and her newborn baby escape. She runs to Haddonfield in hopes that Dr. Loomis will once again help her. Meanwhile, relatives of the family that adopted Laurie Strode are living in the Myer's house. Furthermore, Tommy Doyle (one of the two children Laurie Strode was babysitting in the original Halloween) has moved into the house directly across the street from the Myers house and has been obsessed with stopping Michael ever since his childhood confrentation with him in 1978. After finally killing Jamie (which occurs early in the film) at the Tower Farm, by pushing her into some farm machinery, Michael returns to Haddonfield and begins stalking the Strode family, in search of the baby. Tommy discovers Micheal is under the influence of the Curse of Thorn which drives him to kill his family. It's up to Tommy and Dr. Loomis to protect the Strodes and Jamie's baby in the final showdown between Dr. Loomis and Micheal Myers.
Second Continuation
Halloween-Twenty Years Later(H:20):
The movie features the return of Curtis's character from the first two Halloween films, Laurie Strode, now revealed to be living under the assumed name "Keri Tate". As Tate, Laurie has a seemingly perfect life with an intelligent son and a dedicated boyfriend, a great career (as a head mistress at a private boarding school in Northern California); however, Laurie Strode is far from happy. The tragic events from 20 years previous still haunt her mind, and strongly take effect on her parental capabilities. To everyone, this is "just another Halloween," however Laurie Strode still lives in constant fear. But this year is different. To mark the 20th anniversary of the happenings of 1978, her psychotic brother, serial killer Michael Myers, appears, and starts killing off her co-workers and students one by one. And for the first time in two decades, they meet again. Laurie manages to escape, but instead of leaving, chooses to go back, in an attempt to restore her life, to the school to challenge Michael in a fight to the death. She finds him and attempts killing him several times. She finally pushes him off a balcony, causing him to fall to his death, similar to the first film. The police come and clean the mess and put Michael's corpse in a body bag, and in an ambulance. Laurie steals the ambulance with Michael's body in the back. However, Michael is still alive and escapes the body bag, and again tries to kill her. She slams on the brakes, throwing him through the windshield. She then tries unsuccessfully to run him over. The vehicle tumbles down a cliff but she escapes, while Michael is trapped between it and a tree. He reaches out to her. She reaches for his hand, then pulls back. And while remembering everything he's done to her, she chops his head off with an axe. Michael's head then rolls down the hill.
Halloween-Ressurection:
The film begins three years after the events of Halloween: H20. Laurie Strode, the main character of the first two installments as well as H20, has been confined to a mental institution on the counts of murder. A retcon is established in which Laurie did not really decapitate Michael Myers at the end of the previous film, but rather a paramedic with whom Myers forcefully switched clothing and his mask. Laurie pretends to be heavily medicated, but in reality dodges her pills and prepares herself for the inevitable confrontation with Michael Myers that she knows will come. When Myers does appear, Laurie lures him into a trap, but before she can kill him for good, he turns the tables on her and she presumably dies after being stabbed and falling from the roof of the institution. A year later, a group of six college students win a competition to appear on a reality show on which they are to spend Halloween night in the childhood home of Michael Myers. Their mission is to find out what led him to kill. The investigation is done in the style of the MTV reality show, Fear and is broadcast live on the internet. The participants think the show is entirely for entertainment purposes and that the stunt will earn them some publicity and scholarship money. While in the house, the event goes horribly wrong as Michael returns home and one by one, kills the students and the crew involved in the broadcast. Soon, all but one of the college students are murdered. Using her PDA and penpal on the outside, Sara escapes. Ultimately, only Sara Moyer and Freddie Harris, the host of the show, survive. Toward the end Myers dies of electrocution and is taken to a morgue, where a frightened female mortician slowly opens his body bag. He opens his eyes as the screen goes black and the final credits begin to roll.
Other Plots
Halloween 6: Producer's cut (This would have been the finalized movie if Donald Pleasance hadn't died)
-The differences:
The voice over in the beginning of the film is the voice of Dr. Loomis with a slightly different dialogue than Tommy's in the theatrical version. The next cut scene is a flashback sequence that picks up right where part 5 had left off. Jamie Lloyd is walking through the police station back after she hears the gunshots from inside. She goes in, hears a voice, exits the building, and finds Michael Myers being pushed into a van. She is then kidnapped by the Man in Black. This scene is shown right after Jamie has given birth and fallen asleep. The truck owner does not get his head ripped off in the Producer's Cut, just a simple broken neck. Next is a scene in which Danny wakes up from hearing the "voice" and Kara comes into the bedroom. Danny tells her what he saw and then Kara does a little song, a dance to fix the scare problem. "Stay away monsters, stay away Ghouls. Stay away from Danny, you jerks know the rules." In the P-cut, when first scrolling to see Loomis typing in his den, you hear 3 different callers that are all discussing their thoughts about the Halloween returning to Haddonfield with Barry Simms. In the T-cut, you only hear 2 callers. The first caller that is on the air is going on about his theory of what happened to Michael. Being that Michael was kidnapped by the government, killed 8 CIA Agents, then was put on a rocket and flown into outer space. Doctor Wynn shows up at Loomis' front door. Doctor Loomis invites him in. There is interesting talk about how Loomis' scars were removed by plastic surgery. Loomis is asked to come back to Smith's Grove. Jamie, meanwhile, arrives at the bus station and makes a call to the radio show. Loomis and Wynn hear her call, and Loomis becomes concerned. Jamie slips downstairs to hide in the bathroom, and Loomis gets out his revolver! A great display of Loomis' change of heart - very upsetting, this was left out of the theatrical version. The next scene is a variation from the theatrical version. Jamie makes it to the bus stop and then escapes from Michael again, and makes it to the barn, and sits to rest a minute. Michael comes in and stabs her in the stomach. She falls to the ground and Michael walks off, leaving her to die. She tells Michael, "You can't have the baby." He goes out and finds the paper towel roll inside the baby blanket. The next missing scene is the next day, right before Wynn and Dr. Loomis enter Wynn's office, they talk in the hallway. Wynn is trying to convince Loomis that Michael and Jamie are dead; they both died in the police station explosion back in 1989. Loomis tells him that it's not true. He knows it was Jamie on the radio the night before. Then they walk into the office and find out that Jamie has been found. The next missing scene is where Tim Strode is talking to one of his buddies about Berry Simms. While Tim is talking to one of his buddies, Danny is helping him make his stomach pounder. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release, except it is a bit longer and it is cut differently. It is the breakfast scene, after John hits Kara, we hear the voice "Danny, kill for him". Danny goes up to the window and sees Michael Myers. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release, except it is a bit longer. It is where Kara is talking to Danny about John hitting her. It's almost the same except with a few added lines. The next missing scene is where Debra & John are talking about Kara, where John disowns his daughter. Wynn and Loomis arrive on the scene where Jamie was found stabbed at the barn - she is ALIVE and is taken away in an ambulance. The Thorn rune is burned into the haystack. Loomis gets some flack from the sheriff about being in Haddonfield, but Loomis handles the uniformed sheriff with ease. Kara has a look at Danny's artwork, later to be spooked while walking home from school. Michael was actually watching her. This seems to be an expanded version of the Loomis-meets-Tommy scene at the hospital, which starts right after Tommy demands a doctor at the receptions desk. The conversation gets cut short because security arrives to find Tommy, so he splits fast. The part that is different is that Wynn is also in this scene, and gets curious with Loomis regarding who he was talking to. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release, except it is a bit longer and it is cut differently. It is the meeting between Loomis and Mrs. Strode regarding the house they are living in. Loomis seems a bit more obsessed in this version. Also includes flashbacks of Jamie's recovery in the hospital. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release. It is the scene where Kara finds Danny alone with Tommy playing electronic games. The scene runs pretty much the same except Tommy tells Kara, "You're in danger." This is a totally deleted scene where Jamie is sleeping in the hospital and there is a flashback sequence in black and white. The flashback is to when she was force-impregnated by a member of the Thorn cult (originally thought to be Michael) to give birth to the next Thorn child. The sequence ends and Jamie gets killed as she is shot in her hospital bed by the Man in Black. Loomis mourns. We change scenes to Tommy's house where there is a greatly expanded version of his theory of Michael's madness, being explained to Kara. Loomis rags out a doctor for the breach of security on Jamie. The doctor explains he found placental fluid and that there is a baby. Loomis knows where the baby is. Wynn is also interested... This is not very important, but it's interesting. Tommy is at the campus rally standing around, waiting for Loomis to show up. The little girl who we all remember said "It's raining red" actually sings a song in the Producer's Cut! It's got a much darker feel. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release. It is the death scene of John Strode. It's pretty much the same except John Strode's head doesn't explode, his hair just turns white. The death scene of Berry Simms is pretty much the same except before he gets into the van, it shows that the van has a lable on it, "Warren County Smiths Grove Sanitarium". The theatrical scenes are all present from the campus rally onwards, to the Kara/Danny chase scenes, to Wynn being revealed as the Man in Black, to everybody being drugged and Tommy/Loomis being released. They go to Smith's Grove to find Wynn. Tommy reveals his Thorn theory, and how Michael can be stopped by an opposite rune. Loomis and Wynn meet, where there is a much revealing conversation about Wynn's scheme. Meanwhile, Tommy gets curious and wanders off following somebody in a gown. The mood is very Halloween III and so is the music! Wynn goes into a monologue about Michael's power, very H3 "Connel Cochrane" sequel. Loomis gets knocked out. Tommy seems to find where all the robed people are going, then we cut to next clip... This is the complete ending of the movie - the grand finale at almost seven minutes! No stabbing Michael with syringes and then beating him with a pipe...check this out. We are taken to the Thorn Cult room, where Kara is about to be sacrificed. Michael is standing there and is part of the cult. Wynn explains how Danny is to be the next Thorn child. Kara pleads to Michael to not sacrifice the baby. Tommy stops Wynn from continuing the ritual, and escapes with Kara, Danny, and the baby. Michael follows. An amazingly cool chase scene through the bright hospital halls, and Loomis appears to shoot out the locked door. Tommy stays behind to play with his "good" runes and perform a sacrifice of blood to cast a spell on Michael. Michael stops dead in his tracks and stands frozen. Tommy leaves and Wynn shows up and is heartbroken that Michael is seemingly shut down. Outside, Loomis says, "I have a little business to attend to here" and we get to see what that REALLY MEANT. Loomis goes back inside to see Michael. He pulls off the mask to find Wynn, who has cast a spell on Loomis and Loomis has Thorn on his wrist now! Michael is dressed as the Man in Black now and gets away. The pumpkin blows out and the movie is left wonderfully open-ended.
Halloween III-Season of The Witch:
On Saturday, October 23, shop owner Harry Grimbridge (Al Berry) is chased by mysterious figures wearing business suits. He collapses at a filling station clutching a Silver Shamrock jack-o'-lantern mask and is driven to the hospital by the filling station attendant (Essex Smith) all the while ranting, "They're gonna kill us all." Grimbridge is placed under the care of Dr. Daniel "Dan" Challis. While Grimbridge is hospitalized, another man in a suit (**** Warlock) enters his room and pulls his skull apart, killing him immediately. The man then enters his vehicle, douses himself with gasoline and lights himself on fire, causing the car to explode. Challis, together with Grimbridge's daughter, Ellie, begin an investigation that leads them to the small town of Santa Mira, California, home of the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory. They learn from a hotel manager, Mr. Rafferty (Michael Currie), that the source of the town's prosperity is Irishman Conal Cochran and his factory and that the majority of the town's population is made up of descendants of Irish immigrants. Challis learns that Ellie's father had stayed at the same hotel. Other guests of the hotel included shop owners Marge Guttman (Garn Stephens) and the Kupfer family: Buddy (Ralph Strait), Betty (Jadeen Barbor) and their son "Little" Buddy (Bradley Schacter). All have business at the factory and eventually meet gruesome ends because of the Silver Shamrock masks. A day after arriving in Santa Mira, Challis and Ellie tour the Silver Shamrock factory with the Kupfers and are alarmed to discover Grimbridge's car in a storage building guarded by more men dressed in suits. They return to their hotel but find that they cannot contact anyone outside Santa Mira. Ellie is kidnapped by the men in suits from the factory, and in an attempt to locate her, Challis breaks into the factory. There he discovers that the men in suits are actually androids created by Cochran. After Challis is captured by Cochran's androids, Cochran reveals his plan to kill children on Halloween night. He explains that the Silver Shamrock trademark on the masks contains a computer chip embedded with a small fragment of a five ton sacrificial stone stolen from Stonehenge. When the Silver Shamrock television commercial airs on Halloween night, the chip will activate, causing the wearers' heads to dissolve and spew insects and snakes. Cochran further explains that he is attempting to resurrect the more macabre aspects of the Celtic festival, Samhain, which he connects to witchcraft. Challis escapes, and rescues someone he believes to be Ellie. They destroy the factory and Cochran in the process, however, Challis finds that Cochran replaced Ellie with an android. After destroying it, Challis returns to the same filling station where Ellie's father had come eight days earlier. Challis contacts the television stations and convinces all but one of the station managers to remove the commercial. The film ends with Challis screaming into the telephone, "Turn it off! Stop it! Stop it!"
Halloween
Halloween II
-The third movie has absolutely NOTHING to do with the main storyline so you can watch that anytime before or after you watch the main series.
That being said, From number 2...there are 2 different continuations you can follow:
1st: Halloween 4, Halloween 5, and Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers
..The 2nd continuation completely ignores the events from 4 5 and 6 because one of the most important characters of the story (Donald Pleasance) died shortly after the 6th finished filming...so the main character of the 1st and 2nd (Jamie Lee Curtis) decided to make a comeback
2nd: Halloween: Twenty Years Later(H:20), and Halloween: Ressurection
....On August 31st, Rob Zombie's Prequel/Remake/Reinvision of the first film is coming out and looks good as hell!!! I cant wait for it!
Click Here to watch the teaser trailer
so....I guess you guys want a Summary of the original storyline? well....I warn you there will be spoilers!!
So here it is(I actually just spent like 40 mins typing one up but it sucked...so im just gonna copy wikipedia xD) Please note that watching these is ALOT better than reading about them.
Halloween:
On October 31, 1963, six-year-old Michael Audrey Myers stabs his sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. He is sent to Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium and placed under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis. Loomis suspects that there is more to Myers than meets the eye and plans to have him committed indefinitely; he senses a tremendous amount of rage behind Myers' blank stare. Loomis explains to Sheriff Leigh Brackett: "I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply…evil." At the age of 21, Myers escapes from Smith's Grove while being transferred, and returns to Haddonfield with Loomis in pursuit. In Haddonfield, Myers stalks seventeen-year-old Laurie Strode. Laurie glimpses a man in a white mask (Michael Myers) from her classroom window, behind a bush while she walks home, and in the neighbor's clothesline from her bedroom window. Later in the evening, Laurie meets her friend Annie Brackett (Nancy Loomis), who is babysitting Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards) across the street from where Laurie is babysitting Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews). After arranging to pick up her boyfriend, Annie sends Lindsey to stay with Laurie at the Doyle house. Annie heads back to the Wallace house and gets in her car, only to find every window fogged. Myers (who has followed her and Laurie) pops up from the backseat, strangles Annie until she weakens, and slits her throat. Tommy sees him carrying her body into the Wallace house and thinks Myers is the Boogeyman. Laurie dismisses Tommy's terror and sends him and Lindsey to bed. Myers later murders Laurie's other friend Lynda Van Der Klok (P. J. Soles) and Lynda's boyfriend Bob Simms (John Michael Graham) who had arrived at the empty Wallace house and decided to retreat upstairs to have sex after Lynda orders Bob downstairs for a beer. Bob does as told but is attacked by the Shape. The Shape lifts him up against the wall and stabs him once. Bob struggles, then the Shape stabs him, only this time the knife holds Bob up and the Shape stares at him for a brief moment. Lynda, upstairs and bored, sees a shape with a sheet over his body and Bob's glasses. On assuming its Bob she calls the Doyle house but is attacked. Laurie worries after receiving a strange phone call from the Wallace house, thinking it's Annie. It was actually Lynda, screaming as Myers strangled her with the phone cord. She walks across the street and discovers the three bodies and Judith Myers' missing tombstone. She is attacked by Myers but escapes back to the Doyle house. Laurie stabs Myers with a knitting needle in the neck, a clothes hanger in the eye and a knife to the chest, but he continues to pursue her. Eventually, Loomis spots Tommy and Lindsey running from the house and finds Myers in the upstairs hallway. Loomis rescues Laurie, shooting Myers six times and causing him to fall from the house's second-story balcony. Upon looking out the window for Myers' body, however, Loomis discovers that he is nowhere to be found.
The film closes on a shot of the Myers house and the sound of Michael breathing beneath his mask.
Halloween II:
The beginning of the film is a re-shot version of the final scenes of Halloween, concluding with Dr. Loomis finding the body of Michael Myers missing from the lawn. Loomis runs off in search of him. Laurie Strode is taken in an ambulance to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. One of the EMS drivers, Jimmy Lloyd (Lance Guest) begins to show an interest in her. Myers continues to wander Haddonfield in search of her. Jimmy tells Laurie that the man who attacked her was Michael Myers, infamous for murdering his older sister fifteen years earlier on Halloween night. After this, Laurie drifts in and out of consciousness, having strange flashbacks about her adoption by the Strodes and visiting an unpleasant boy in an institution. Dr. Loomis and the Haddonfield police continue to search the town for Myers. At the local elementary school they discover that Myers has broken into a classroom and scrawled the word Samhain in blood on the chalkboard. Loomis explains that it is a Celtic word that means "lord of the dead", the "end of summer", and "October 31" (Samhain's symbolic importance is not elaborated on until later films). Myers learns that Laurie is at the hospital and goes there, murdering the hospital's staff one by one. Laurie manages to elude him, but she is limping badly and sedated and is thus unable to move very quickly. Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens), Loomis's assistant, meets up with the doctor and informs Loomis that he has strict orders to return to Smith's Grove, and that she is accompanied by an armed marshal. In the marshal's car, she tells Loomis that she has discovered a secret file on Myers to which he was not privy. The file reveals that Laurie is actually Myers' sister, adopted by the Strodes after Myers killed his older sister, Judith. At gunpoint, Loomis forces the marshal (John Zenda) and Chambers to drive to the hospital, knowing that Myers will have already tracked Laurie there. Upon arriving, Loomis shoots Myers several times, but to no avail. After Myers kills the marshal, Loomis and Laurie retreat into an operating room, and Laurie shoots Myers in the eyes after Loomis is stabbed. Loomis is able to turn on the oxygen tanks in the operating room, causing an explosion that engulfs him and Myers. Laurie survives and is taken away in another ambulance
SIDE NOTE: The TV version had an alternate storyline where Jimmy also Survives and is in the Ambulance with Laurie crying with joy saying "We made it, We made it!"
First Continuation
Halloween 4-The Return of Michael Myers:
Michael Myers has been in a coma since the events of Halloween II, when his massacre was stopped by Dr. Sam Loomis and Laurie Strode. At the beginning of this film, Myers is being transferred from Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium to Smith's Grove Sanitarium. He awakens when he hears that Laurie Strode, his sister, is deceased, but her daughter is alive and well in Haddonfield. He kills the ambulance crew and escapes. Dr. Loomis races to Haddonfield in an attempt to bring Myers' killing spree to an end once and for all.In Haddonfield, his niece Jamie Lloyd (played by Danielle Harris), has been adopted by the Carruthers family. She has frequent nightmares about Michael, though she does not know who he is. On Halloween night, Jamie goes out trick-or-treating dressed as a clown (a costume that is very similar to the one worn by young Michael Myers at the beginning of the first Halloween film) with her teenage foster sister Rachel Carruthers (played by Ellie Cornell). Her uncle, Michael, follows them. Dr. Loomis, meanwhile, arrives in Haddonfield after an exhausting journey, and contacts the police department to inform them of Myers' disappearance. Haddonfield's new Sheriff Ben Meeker (played by Beau Starr) and him begin to search the town for Michael and Jamie. They find that Myers has singlehandedly annihilated the entire police force. The girls hide in the Sheriff's house, where Michael follows them. They escape and leave Haddonfield, but Myers hides in the back of the truck that they use to escape. The sheriff's deputies catch up to them and shoot Michael several times. He falls into an abandoned mine shaft which collapses on him. Back at the Carruthers house, Jamie puts on her clown mask and stabs her foster mother. It turns out that she was possessed by Myers' rage. Dr. Loomis attempts to shoot her, but Sheriff Meeker prevents it. The film ends with a shot of Jamie, wearing the clown mask, holding bloody scissors. This shot is very similar to the shot near the beginning of the original Halloween, where young Michael Myers is seen holding a bloody knife after killing his older sister, Judith.
Halloween 5-The Revenge of Michael Myers:
The film begins with a recap of Michael Myers being shot at and falling into a mine shaft , from the end of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, but Michael finds a way out and stumbles into a nearby river.He stumbles into a small shack by the river owned by a local hermit.Once there Micheal collapses and remains in a comatose state for a full year. On October 31st 1989, Michael reawakens, kills the hermit and returns to terrorize Haddonfield, where his young niece, Jamie Lloyd (played by Danielle Harris) continues to live after nearly being killed by Michael the year before. Jamie has been unable to speak since attacking her foster mother in a state of shock at the end of part four,but exibits signs of a telepathic link with her evil uncle. Dr. Sam Loomis realizes that this link exists, and plans to use it to put an end to Michael. Michael begins stalking Rachel (Jamie's foster sister) and her friend Tina (played by Wendy Kaplan)After both are killed Jamie agrees to put herself in danger to help Loomis stop Michael for good.With Jamie's help, Loomis lures Michael back to the old Myers House. Michael makes many attempts to kill Jamie, finally getting the chance to kill her in the attic. Jamie in a desperate move,tries apealing to Micheael's humanity by saying "Uncle." This causes Myers to pause. When Jamie asks to see his face, he takes off his mask. A lone tear runs down his face. Jamie reaches up to wipe it away, and Michael is thrown into a rage. Loomis comes to the rescue and attacks Michael, beating him repeatedly with a 2 x 4. They take Michael to the local sheriff's station. However, a mysterious stranger ,dressed in all black, has come to Haddonfield. He shoots all of the officers in the police station. Jamie walks through the station finding the bodies of the dead officers.She goes over to Michael's jail cell to discover that it's empty. Jamie discovers that Michael has disappeared.As Jamie sobs realizing Myers is once again able to get to her,she says No...NO!. The scene then goes black.
Halloween-The Curse of Michael Myers (This summary sucks...so you will definately want to see this movie):
In 1989, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois,while trying to kill his niece, Jamie Lloyd (parts 4 + 5).After a mysterious figure known as The Man in Black frees Michael from police captivity,both Micheal and Jamie disapeared. Most people believed them to be dead. In fact, Jamie has been kidnapped, and impregnated by a group of evil Druids bent on controling Michael Myers. But after giving birth, Jamie and her newborn baby escape. She runs to Haddonfield in hopes that Dr. Loomis will once again help her. Meanwhile, relatives of the family that adopted Laurie Strode are living in the Myer's house. Furthermore, Tommy Doyle (one of the two children Laurie Strode was babysitting in the original Halloween) has moved into the house directly across the street from the Myers house and has been obsessed with stopping Michael ever since his childhood confrentation with him in 1978. After finally killing Jamie (which occurs early in the film) at the Tower Farm, by pushing her into some farm machinery, Michael returns to Haddonfield and begins stalking the Strode family, in search of the baby. Tommy discovers Micheal is under the influence of the Curse of Thorn which drives him to kill his family. It's up to Tommy and Dr. Loomis to protect the Strodes and Jamie's baby in the final showdown between Dr. Loomis and Micheal Myers.
Second Continuation
Halloween-Twenty Years Later(H:20):
The movie features the return of Curtis's character from the first two Halloween films, Laurie Strode, now revealed to be living under the assumed name "Keri Tate". As Tate, Laurie has a seemingly perfect life with an intelligent son and a dedicated boyfriend, a great career (as a head mistress at a private boarding school in Northern California); however, Laurie Strode is far from happy. The tragic events from 20 years previous still haunt her mind, and strongly take effect on her parental capabilities. To everyone, this is "just another Halloween," however Laurie Strode still lives in constant fear. But this year is different. To mark the 20th anniversary of the happenings of 1978, her psychotic brother, serial killer Michael Myers, appears, and starts killing off her co-workers and students one by one. And for the first time in two decades, they meet again. Laurie manages to escape, but instead of leaving, chooses to go back, in an attempt to restore her life, to the school to challenge Michael in a fight to the death. She finds him and attempts killing him several times. She finally pushes him off a balcony, causing him to fall to his death, similar to the first film. The police come and clean the mess and put Michael's corpse in a body bag, and in an ambulance. Laurie steals the ambulance with Michael's body in the back. However, Michael is still alive and escapes the body bag, and again tries to kill her. She slams on the brakes, throwing him through the windshield. She then tries unsuccessfully to run him over. The vehicle tumbles down a cliff but she escapes, while Michael is trapped between it and a tree. He reaches out to her. She reaches for his hand, then pulls back. And while remembering everything he's done to her, she chops his head off with an axe. Michael's head then rolls down the hill.
Halloween-Ressurection:
The film begins three years after the events of Halloween: H20. Laurie Strode, the main character of the first two installments as well as H20, has been confined to a mental institution on the counts of murder. A retcon is established in which Laurie did not really decapitate Michael Myers at the end of the previous film, but rather a paramedic with whom Myers forcefully switched clothing and his mask. Laurie pretends to be heavily medicated, but in reality dodges her pills and prepares herself for the inevitable confrontation with Michael Myers that she knows will come. When Myers does appear, Laurie lures him into a trap, but before she can kill him for good, he turns the tables on her and she presumably dies after being stabbed and falling from the roof of the institution. A year later, a group of six college students win a competition to appear on a reality show on which they are to spend Halloween night in the childhood home of Michael Myers. Their mission is to find out what led him to kill. The investigation is done in the style of the MTV reality show, Fear and is broadcast live on the internet. The participants think the show is entirely for entertainment purposes and that the stunt will earn them some publicity and scholarship money. While in the house, the event goes horribly wrong as Michael returns home and one by one, kills the students and the crew involved in the broadcast. Soon, all but one of the college students are murdered. Using her PDA and penpal on the outside, Sara escapes. Ultimately, only Sara Moyer and Freddie Harris, the host of the show, survive. Toward the end Myers dies of electrocution and is taken to a morgue, where a frightened female mortician slowly opens his body bag. He opens his eyes as the screen goes black and the final credits begin to roll.
Other Plots
Halloween 6: Producer's cut (This would have been the finalized movie if Donald Pleasance hadn't died)
-The differences:
The voice over in the beginning of the film is the voice of Dr. Loomis with a slightly different dialogue than Tommy's in the theatrical version. The next cut scene is a flashback sequence that picks up right where part 5 had left off. Jamie Lloyd is walking through the police station back after she hears the gunshots from inside. She goes in, hears a voice, exits the building, and finds Michael Myers being pushed into a van. She is then kidnapped by the Man in Black. This scene is shown right after Jamie has given birth and fallen asleep. The truck owner does not get his head ripped off in the Producer's Cut, just a simple broken neck. Next is a scene in which Danny wakes up from hearing the "voice" and Kara comes into the bedroom. Danny tells her what he saw and then Kara does a little song, a dance to fix the scare problem. "Stay away monsters, stay away Ghouls. Stay away from Danny, you jerks know the rules." In the P-cut, when first scrolling to see Loomis typing in his den, you hear 3 different callers that are all discussing their thoughts about the Halloween returning to Haddonfield with Barry Simms. In the T-cut, you only hear 2 callers. The first caller that is on the air is going on about his theory of what happened to Michael. Being that Michael was kidnapped by the government, killed 8 CIA Agents, then was put on a rocket and flown into outer space. Doctor Wynn shows up at Loomis' front door. Doctor Loomis invites him in. There is interesting talk about how Loomis' scars were removed by plastic surgery. Loomis is asked to come back to Smith's Grove. Jamie, meanwhile, arrives at the bus station and makes a call to the radio show. Loomis and Wynn hear her call, and Loomis becomes concerned. Jamie slips downstairs to hide in the bathroom, and Loomis gets out his revolver! A great display of Loomis' change of heart - very upsetting, this was left out of the theatrical version. The next scene is a variation from the theatrical version. Jamie makes it to the bus stop and then escapes from Michael again, and makes it to the barn, and sits to rest a minute. Michael comes in and stabs her in the stomach. She falls to the ground and Michael walks off, leaving her to die. She tells Michael, "You can't have the baby." He goes out and finds the paper towel roll inside the baby blanket. The next missing scene is the next day, right before Wynn and Dr. Loomis enter Wynn's office, they talk in the hallway. Wynn is trying to convince Loomis that Michael and Jamie are dead; they both died in the police station explosion back in 1989. Loomis tells him that it's not true. He knows it was Jamie on the radio the night before. Then they walk into the office and find out that Jamie has been found. The next missing scene is where Tim Strode is talking to one of his buddies about Berry Simms. While Tim is talking to one of his buddies, Danny is helping him make his stomach pounder. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release, except it is a bit longer and it is cut differently. It is the breakfast scene, after John hits Kara, we hear the voice "Danny, kill for him". Danny goes up to the window and sees Michael Myers. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release, except it is a bit longer. It is where Kara is talking to Danny about John hitting her. It's almost the same except with a few added lines. The next missing scene is where Debra & John are talking about Kara, where John disowns his daughter. Wynn and Loomis arrive on the scene where Jamie was found stabbed at the barn - she is ALIVE and is taken away in an ambulance. The Thorn rune is burned into the haystack. Loomis gets some flack from the sheriff about being in Haddonfield, but Loomis handles the uniformed sheriff with ease. Kara has a look at Danny's artwork, later to be spooked while walking home from school. Michael was actually watching her. This seems to be an expanded version of the Loomis-meets-Tommy scene at the hospital, which starts right after Tommy demands a doctor at the receptions desk. The conversation gets cut short because security arrives to find Tommy, so he splits fast. The part that is different is that Wynn is also in this scene, and gets curious with Loomis regarding who he was talking to. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release, except it is a bit longer and it is cut differently. It is the meeting between Loomis and Mrs. Strode regarding the house they are living in. Loomis seems a bit more obsessed in this version. Also includes flashbacks of Jamie's recovery in the hospital. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release. It is the scene where Kara finds Danny alone with Tommy playing electronic games. The scene runs pretty much the same except Tommy tells Kara, "You're in danger." This is a totally deleted scene where Jamie is sleeping in the hospital and there is a flashback sequence in black and white. The flashback is to when she was force-impregnated by a member of the Thorn cult (originally thought to be Michael) to give birth to the next Thorn child. The sequence ends and Jamie gets killed as she is shot in her hospital bed by the Man in Black. Loomis mourns. We change scenes to Tommy's house where there is a greatly expanded version of his theory of Michael's madness, being explained to Kara. Loomis rags out a doctor for the breach of security on Jamie. The doctor explains he found placental fluid and that there is a baby. Loomis knows where the baby is. Wynn is also interested... This is not very important, but it's interesting. Tommy is at the campus rally standing around, waiting for Loomis to show up. The little girl who we all remember said "It's raining red" actually sings a song in the Producer's Cut! It's got a much darker feel. This scene appears in the Producer's Cut exactly where it appears in the theatrical release. It is the death scene of John Strode. It's pretty much the same except John Strode's head doesn't explode, his hair just turns white. The death scene of Berry Simms is pretty much the same except before he gets into the van, it shows that the van has a lable on it, "Warren County Smiths Grove Sanitarium". The theatrical scenes are all present from the campus rally onwards, to the Kara/Danny chase scenes, to Wynn being revealed as the Man in Black, to everybody being drugged and Tommy/Loomis being released. They go to Smith's Grove to find Wynn. Tommy reveals his Thorn theory, and how Michael can be stopped by an opposite rune. Loomis and Wynn meet, where there is a much revealing conversation about Wynn's scheme. Meanwhile, Tommy gets curious and wanders off following somebody in a gown. The mood is very Halloween III and so is the music! Wynn goes into a monologue about Michael's power, very H3 "Connel Cochrane" sequel. Loomis gets knocked out. Tommy seems to find where all the robed people are going, then we cut to next clip... This is the complete ending of the movie - the grand finale at almost seven minutes! No stabbing Michael with syringes and then beating him with a pipe...check this out. We are taken to the Thorn Cult room, where Kara is about to be sacrificed. Michael is standing there and is part of the cult. Wynn explains how Danny is to be the next Thorn child. Kara pleads to Michael to not sacrifice the baby. Tommy stops Wynn from continuing the ritual, and escapes with Kara, Danny, and the baby. Michael follows. An amazingly cool chase scene through the bright hospital halls, and Loomis appears to shoot out the locked door. Tommy stays behind to play with his "good" runes and perform a sacrifice of blood to cast a spell on Michael. Michael stops dead in his tracks and stands frozen. Tommy leaves and Wynn shows up and is heartbroken that Michael is seemingly shut down. Outside, Loomis says, "I have a little business to attend to here" and we get to see what that REALLY MEANT. Loomis goes back inside to see Michael. He pulls off the mask to find Wynn, who has cast a spell on Loomis and Loomis has Thorn on his wrist now! Michael is dressed as the Man in Black now and gets away. The pumpkin blows out and the movie is left wonderfully open-ended.
Halloween III-Season of The Witch:
On Saturday, October 23, shop owner Harry Grimbridge (Al Berry) is chased by mysterious figures wearing business suits. He collapses at a filling station clutching a Silver Shamrock jack-o'-lantern mask and is driven to the hospital by the filling station attendant (Essex Smith) all the while ranting, "They're gonna kill us all." Grimbridge is placed under the care of Dr. Daniel "Dan" Challis. While Grimbridge is hospitalized, another man in a suit (**** Warlock) enters his room and pulls his skull apart, killing him immediately. The man then enters his vehicle, douses himself with gasoline and lights himself on fire, causing the car to explode. Challis, together with Grimbridge's daughter, Ellie, begin an investigation that leads them to the small town of Santa Mira, California, home of the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory. They learn from a hotel manager, Mr. Rafferty (Michael Currie), that the source of the town's prosperity is Irishman Conal Cochran and his factory and that the majority of the town's population is made up of descendants of Irish immigrants. Challis learns that Ellie's father had stayed at the same hotel. Other guests of the hotel included shop owners Marge Guttman (Garn Stephens) and the Kupfer family: Buddy (Ralph Strait), Betty (Jadeen Barbor) and their son "Little" Buddy (Bradley Schacter). All have business at the factory and eventually meet gruesome ends because of the Silver Shamrock masks. A day after arriving in Santa Mira, Challis and Ellie tour the Silver Shamrock factory with the Kupfers and are alarmed to discover Grimbridge's car in a storage building guarded by more men dressed in suits. They return to their hotel but find that they cannot contact anyone outside Santa Mira. Ellie is kidnapped by the men in suits from the factory, and in an attempt to locate her, Challis breaks into the factory. There he discovers that the men in suits are actually androids created by Cochran. After Challis is captured by Cochran's androids, Cochran reveals his plan to kill children on Halloween night. He explains that the Silver Shamrock trademark on the masks contains a computer chip embedded with a small fragment of a five ton sacrificial stone stolen from Stonehenge. When the Silver Shamrock television commercial airs on Halloween night, the chip will activate, causing the wearers' heads to dissolve and spew insects and snakes. Cochran further explains that he is attempting to resurrect the more macabre aspects of the Celtic festival, Samhain, which he connects to witchcraft. Challis escapes, and rescues someone he believes to be Ellie. They destroy the factory and Cochran in the process, however, Challis finds that Cochran replaced Ellie with an android. After destroying it, Challis returns to the same filling station where Ellie's father had come eight days earlier. Challis contacts the television stations and convinces all but one of the station managers to remove the commercial. The film ends with Challis screaming into the telephone, "Turn it off! Stop it! Stop it!"
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