They Should've Just Stopped After HALLOWEEN 2

Could have been better but I thought the moments with Loomis and the fun halloween atmosphere made up for the rest. I thought two was boring, and blah.

Why am I not surprised? Your idiotic political posts would extend also to poor business and cultural decisions, along with a dictatorial attitude. I can't imagine what makes people think they need to shit on a franchise that they obviously don't take to in the first place. I lost interest in the Rocky films after 4, and now there are twice as many. Good on Stallone! I wish him the best. It never occurred to me to trash them.

Folks have always been clamouring for more of these movies, and more Michael Myers in particular. This is the money train of Trancas/Compass Int'l Pictures. They tried something different with III while maintaining the spirit of the Halloween season, and while still laying out a groundbreaking horror story, it didn't quite take off. So, they listened to the market... brought back the horror icon and successfully competed with the other famous properties lead by Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees.

All the films have something to offer and the series evolved beautifully and continued to thrive up to the current day. The new trilogy was a phenomenon, and a Haddonfield limited television series in currently in the works, which will offer an opportunity to bring back previous directors/filmmakers and fan favorite cast members such as Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell and Wendy Kaplan who all have their own cult following in the convention scene. I hope to see Lance Guest and Pamela Susan Shoop again, too, in an alternate timeline.

The "simple story" has more to it than you acknowledge, with each entry having something new to offer. The original was the babysitting murders with the supernatural twist ending, then we had the brilliant hospital setpiece in II, unrelated III have the druid cults which was incorporated in the origin angle of Smith's Grove Sanitarium in 6. 4 had that power outage and trapped claustaphobic feeling as well as great trick-or-treating scenes with was overlooked in previous entries. 5, this one (my favorite) brought an old-school Victorian gothic horror feel with it's European director. 5 also contained farm house and barn locales, which fit in with the Midwest harvest season vibe, a new first with fun new characters living it up with Halloween parties and sexy adult costumes which were previously overlooked. Also, Loomis was at his best in 5, fully embracing his nemesis (Capt. Ahab after his Moby Dick) role, and chewing the scenery with one of the most memorable performances I've ever seen in horror. Donald Pleasance is truly a 20th Century iconic character actor.

All and all, you need every entry to bring out the fullness of everything the Halloween season has to offer. I didn't care much for the H20/Resurrection fan fiction, or the Rob Zombie white-trash fests, but everything else is part of American folklore.

If you don't like the supernatural horror aspect, then move along please. Because it existed from the very beginning with it's fascinating "boogeyman" twist.

Agree although I do like Halloween 3 for its originality.

I think all of the sequels post H3 are garbage.

Carpenter said they should have stopped after the first one.

Producers forced him to make the second one and he killed off Myers and Loomis to put an end to the franchise.

But it was sold to other producers years later and Myers and Loomis were brought back with no explanation of how they survived.

They’ve basically remade the same movie over and over ever since.