Thus, this film is the only one in which Michael Myers does not appear at all. The next movie was meant to proceed from Carpenter's original vision of the Halloween series as a kind of Genre Anthology, featuring different unrelated stories of horror connected only by being related to the spooky holiday that gave the series its name. The film soon reveals/ retcons the reason why Michael is stalking Laurie.

Halloween II (1981) - On the same night as the original film, Laurie gets taken to a hospital to recover from Michael Myers's attack, but the serial killer follows her there.

The original continuity then continues with the original sequel: Sam Loomis ( Donald Pleasence), Michael's former psychiatrist, stands any chance of stopping him. Teenager Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis) steps onto the Myers property and thereby stirs Michael's bloodthirsty fascination, causing him to begin stalking her and her friends throughout the day and ensuing night until he finds his chance to begin murdering them one by one. Fifteen years later, Michael escapes from the asylum on the night before Halloween and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois in order to go back to his childhood home.

John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) - At the age of 6, Michael Myers stabbed his older sister Judith to death on Halloween night, 1963 this led to his incarceration at a mental hospital.With the sole exception of the Oddball in the Series Halloween III: Season of the Witch (more on that below), the one common thread in the various timelines is the psychopathic murderer Michael Myers, who lives solely to make All Hallows' Eve a night of horrific carnage and mayhem.Īll of the timelines (except for the Zombie reboot) flow from the original film: Since then, the original film, and the series overall, have become a celebrated, iconic staple of horror and wider pop culture.ĭespite its enormous influence and enduring popularity, the series is also rather infamous for having perhaps the single most confusing timeline in the history of the horror genre (if not all of cinema), with five distinct alternate continuities. The film was a massive hit that effectively popularized the Slasher Movie genre and inspired other similar franchises such as Friday the 13th, and it also turned the film into the first of a successful major horror film franchise. In 1978, writer/director John Carpenter and producer Debra Hill made Halloween, a low-budget independent horror film. Samuel Loomis on Michael Myers, Halloween (1978)

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