Shitty 80's Horror Movie Review: Halloween (franchise)

This was one of those movie franchises that everyone always brings up when you're talking about crappy 80's horror movies (even though the first one came out in '78) and I always got a lot of shit for never seeing it sooner. I mean, come on, Jamie Lee Curtis, scream queen...

Except for the whole never-dying thing and the fact that he keeps coming back from the dead over and over again, the concept for the first movie in the franchise is completely plausible. Kid with certain mental problems (sociopathy, most likely) kills sister and gets put away, breaks out and targets teenagers. His lack of conversational skills and his downright fascination with his own work (like that scene when The Shape just takes a step back and looks at the kid he's just killed like it's a piece of art) point to something in that area.

I liked the first one. The others, not so much. Especially when they started just ignoring the timelines and making shit up.

Halloween (1978)

 Halloween II: The Nightmare Isn't Over (1981)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

 Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Halloween VII: H20 Twenty Years Later (1998)

Halloween VIII: Resurrection (2002)

Halloween *Remake* (2007)

Halloween II *Remake* (2009)

Yeah, and as you can see, the remakes were not really my favorite things in the world, but I tried to look at them objectively with my film student hat of appreciation.