Ranking ALL The Halloween Films | #spookyspot 2023
Ranking ALL The Halloween Films | #spookyspot 2023
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00:00 It's finally time, Michael. Here's my movie rankings of the films of Michael Myers.
00:07 [music]
00:25 Well now we have the Blumhouse trilogy all wrapped up and we can finally say we've put things to rest
00:30 until of course Miramax decides what direction they want to go with the franchise.
00:33 Of course the last trilogy kind of had very conflicting polarizing opinions from fans of the franchise.
00:39 Some liked the direction in which the Halloween ends did wrap up the trilogy
00:43 and other was other of us did think it was a dumpster fire.
00:46 The equivalent of a burnt annual pie by Laurie Strode.
00:50 Anyways though I thought it would be a prime time, a spooky time in fact, to go back and rank all of the Halloween films
00:56 at least in my own personal opinion. My opinions may very well greatly change and differ from everybody else's.
01:02 And I would always encourage of course you guys if you guys wanted to participate in this
01:05 let me know down below in the comment section how you would rank the Halloween films.
01:09 And it'd be fun to see where we put like our number ones, our number twos, all the way down to the dismal last.
01:14 Now I decided also as well to look at my favorite Halloween films first
01:17 and then of course as we got to the bottom would be more fun to kind of talk and trash a little bit
01:21 about why I dislike that specific Halloween movie.
01:23 But we're going to start things first with my first Halloween, my favorite of the Halloween films.
01:27 Now a lot of what I will be looking at and showing you guys in my ranking at least
01:31 has more biased opinions not so much as much to the movie as I was watching
01:35 but kind of like the memories and of course all the things that went along with it.
01:38 The time I was in my life a lot of times it may have been also in high school hanging around with friends
01:42 or the person I was with at the time.
01:44 The pizza parties, the joking behind the scenes and all the laughs we would have along the way of watching these movies.
01:49 Those all kind of add on to the reasonings why I have the rankings the way that they are.
01:53 So while you may be looking at the few titles thinking why would he have the rank so high on that particular Halloween movie?
02:00 Again it's for those reasons.
02:01 It's more again the fun that goes along with watching these movies not always just the movie itself.
02:05 Now for anyone that has also been following along the exploits of this channel
02:09 probably already know a lot of my favorite of the Halloween movies.
02:11 You'll probably be able to identify these right away.
02:13 But we're going to start things first with my favorite of the Halloween films.
02:16 That is Halloween 4 The Return of Michael Myers.
02:19 Don't worry the 70/80 is still pretty sitting pretty high on this.
02:23 But the reason I can tell you why I like Halloween 4 so much is the inclusion of Jamie
02:27 and the idea that we're having a younger character this time around.
02:30 Trick or treating this time around not actually being babysat.
02:33 And this time around instead of actually having Nick Castle we had ourselves George P Wilbur coming back
02:38 and playing the role of Michael Myers 10 years after the events of Halloween 2.
02:42 The reason why I like this film so much is there's sort of a different type of feel and tone to the movie itself.
02:49 Some have actually even in fact said that Halloween 4 kind of comes across a little bit like a TV movie.
02:53 And I get a lot of that.
02:55 What I do also really like is the additional gore that was added as well for Halloween 4.
03:01 It ups the ante I feel a little bit on the kills.
03:03 I mean obviously the shotgun scene for example is one of my personal favorites.
03:08 There's just something to be said as well for Michael Myers.
03:10 Now some of you may not like the look of Michael Myers and Halloween 4.
03:14 The shoulder pads George P Wilbur sporting a very heavily painted mask.
03:18 A Don Post mask but still heavily ruined.
03:21 Some would say from the original 78 classic.
03:24 I like the look of the actual mask itself.
03:26 It had almost more of an alien almost ghost like vibe to it.
03:29 I wasn't so keen on the idea that the boilers were as bright blue as they were.
03:33 For a long time I actually really thought that the coveralls in Halloween 4 were actually a black or a dark blue.
03:38 But for me at least Halloween 4 is my favorite of all the Halloween films.
03:42 And in fact when it comes time to actually watching all the Halloween movies.
03:45 I usually tend to start with either Halloween 4 or if I go in chronological order of course then I'll start usually then with a 78 film.
03:52 I kind of do my best to kind of go through all of them that way.
03:55 But if I always get the chance and I only have a chance to maybe watch one or two of the Halloween movies that season.
04:00 Halloween 4 is the one I always want to watch first.
04:03 So we're going to put that right there.
04:05 Next in order I had to have this one pretty high on the list.
04:09 The original 78.
04:10 Now of course Halloween the original film the classic.
04:13 Nobody can I think pretty much if you're a fan of Halloween you're probably going to have this sitting pretty high.
04:18 In fact probably not at the very top of the list.
04:20 I mean what can you really say about the original 78 classic.
04:23 John Carpenter coming and actually producing something that would leave a legacy behind it.
04:28 Nick Castle of course playing the role of Michael Myers this time around.
04:31 Jamie Lee Curtis starting her series of roles as Laurie Strode.
04:35 It's a classic to say the least.
04:37 Now of course the original film is a little slower paced.
04:40 But that's the charm that also goes along with it as well.
04:42 It's the atmosphere.
04:43 It's the tone it sets.
04:45 It certainly does take things a little slower and say the direction than say what Halloween 4 would have gone with.
04:51 But there's something to be also saying about Halloween.
04:53 The original 78 is one that you want to get together with friends.
04:56 Have yourself a pizza for example and just sit down and have a good time watching the original 78 movie.
05:01 I'm not going to go through a lot of the individual stories of what ends up happening.
05:04 I may touch base on a little bit of each of the individual movies.
05:07 But overall again like this is just this is my ranking.
05:10 And the reason again why I did put Halloween 4 before I put Halloween 1.
05:13 As classic as the original 78 may be.
05:16 It's always those 78, 78 is always the one I go to if I'm looking at it chronologically.
05:22 But if the one I wanted to watch above all others is always Halloween 4.
05:26 The next one on my list scratching I'm sure some heads will be Halloween 820 or Halloween Water.
05:33 Some people have jokingly said as well.
05:35 The reasoning thing, the reasoning why I like this movie.
05:37 And I think the reasoning also why this movie has aged better for me.
05:41 Is with the recent direction of course they went with with the Blumhouse trilogy.
05:44 I feel like H20 is a better direction for the Laurie Strode character 20 years later.
05:50 After the events of Halloween and the follow-up Halloween 2.
05:53 Laurie Strode this time around is going into hiding.
05:56 Changing her name completely and now being on the run.
05:59 Essentially not really on the run.
06:00 She's restarting her life but then being eventually pursued by Michael Myers.
06:03 She has to finally face her fears and fight down the monster.
06:07 That's been stalking her for as long as she's basically been alive.
06:11 The character of Laurie Strode I think develops better in H20 than it does in the 2018 movie.
06:17 And 2018 is really one that had me really bothered by the way the direction of the franchise.
06:21 First of all they completely uncanonized Halloween 2.
06:25 And they make it only just a direct sequel to the original 78 film.
06:28 H20 embraces the idea that Laurie Strode is one that's been a broken person.
06:33 I mean of course she's trying to recover from the fact that it's not just a random stranger.
06:37 But it's the fact that actually it's her brother trying to still find her.
06:40 The idea that it's her family always means that he's always on the lookout for her.
06:44 Sooner or later as he even says in the movie itself he's going to find her.
06:48 And I find that's a lot more scarier than just some random stalking character that bumps into her in the original 78 movie.
06:55 H20 for me is always one I always have to watch if again I only had a stack to choose from of say three films.
07:01 Halloween 4, H20 and the next one would be one I would always watch.
07:06 So Halloween H20. I prefer again the direction of Laurie Strode more in this one than the 2018 Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.
07:13 H20 for me and it's also by the way one of my favorite looks for Michael Myers as well.
07:18 Chris Durran who actually played the role in the movie.
07:21 I like personally the idea of having the open eye area in his mask.
07:24 I like the spike your hair as well. He's also one of my favorite moving Michael Myers too.
07:28 There's something about the way that Durran moves actually in Halloween H20.
07:32 It's one of my favorites if not my favorite actor who's ever put on the mask.
07:36 So that's H20. That's my third favorite of the Halloween films.
07:39 Up next the next favorite film of mine is Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers.
07:44 Right now I'm getting up my shield defending myself by being all the throwing pumpkins coming my way.
07:49 But Halloween 6, The Curse of Michael Myers.
07:52 There's a certain charm for me at least that goes along with this.
07:55 Now again I did say earlier the reasoning why some of these may still higher on my listing rankings
08:00 is more so because again like the memories that go along with it.
08:02 I very vividly remember going and seeing the poster for Halloween 6 inside my video store.
08:07 I never got the chance to see this in the theater.
08:09 But originally seeing the poster advertisement at Video 99, a Strip Plaza video store.
08:14 I frequently asked the person that was working at the counter.
08:17 I believe that the name I think his name was Zoltan.
08:20 So right away I mean that it was a small Strip Plaza video store.
08:23 Again the kind you would go in you take a little velcro piece numbers off the tapes.
08:27 You take them up to the front. He would of course give you the tape.
08:29 Something about Halloween 6.
08:31 Between that, the idea that also Michael Myers for me at least,
08:34 bringing back George P Wilber by the way to portray the role of the shape once again.
08:38 For me Michael Myers is one of the scariest ways he's ever looked in any of the franchises with Halloween 6.
08:44 There's something kind of eerily made about the paper mâché like mask that he has.
08:48 It's sort of a cold, very cold demeanor that he has in that particular movie as well.
08:53 The kills are also up there as well.
08:55 I would certainly encourage if you ever have never had the chance really to go see and watch Halloween 6,
08:59 The Curse of Michael Myers.
09:00 Go and choose to watch this one.
09:02 Don't watch The Producers Cut.
09:03 The Producers Cut didn't even make my list.
09:05 Producers Cut is also something similar to like the TV version of Halloween 2 and the original 1978 Halloween.
09:11 I didn't include those simply just because again like there's the same movie.
09:14 This slightly changed in a different direction.
09:16 Halloween 6 though, I like the rock music that they incorporate into it as well.
09:20 I love the way that Michael Myers looks in the movie.
09:22 Even though he is technically played by two actors in the movie,
09:25 I love the idea that George P. Wilbur had the chance to come back and reprise the role again as Shape.
09:29 Halloween 6 for me is my number four favorite of the Halloween films.
09:33 Just looking around to see if anybody else, okay, nobody else is going to be throwing pumpkins my way.
09:38 The next one on my list is actually Halloween 2.
09:41 Now for some avid fans of the Halloween franchise probably would have had this title sitting further up their list.
09:47 Halloween 2 is still a classic for me, but it's one that honestly with time,
09:51 my fluctuating taste in these movies does sometimes change the rankings.
09:55 I'm almost even considering the idea of actually doing this as an annual thing.
09:59 So every year I'm going to kind of rank my Halloween movies to see where we're standing with those movies.
10:04 But with Halloween 2, it's a movie that I either really love at the time or it's a movie that I'm okay with.
10:10 I find it is slightly slower paced of the Halloween movies.
10:13 It takes its time to do what it needs to do.
10:15 Dick Warlock this time around actually comes back and plays Michael Myers.
10:19 And, you know, some criticisms were made about Dick Warlock's,
10:22 the way he actually portrayed Michael Myers as very a slow moving robotic Michael.
10:26 The kills are interesting enough.
10:28 Of course, everybody remembers the hot tub bathtub scene with Nurse Karen.
10:32 Halloween 2 again, for me, isn't as high on my list simply just because, again, like I have to really be in the mood for it.
10:38 It is certainly one of those things that if you do watch them in chronological order, if you watch the 1978 film,
10:43 this one obviously goes really hand in hand with it because it follows Michael Myers on the same night as the original movie.
10:49 Halloween 2 this time also takes place in the hospital.
10:52 I find there's something just also as well, but the eerily look, the setting,
10:56 the scary setting of a very dark dwelling hospital.
10:59 It's strange that really on Halloween night, that hospital isn't busier than what it is.
11:04 But for me, at least Halloween 2 is a good movie, but it's one that does probably change a lot every single year.
11:10 If you had asked me this last year, what my favorite Halloween films were and to put those in order,
11:14 honestly, Halloween 2 probably would have sat even probably just before Halloween 6.
11:19 This year, though, with my personal opinions and my taste changing like of right for this year,
11:24 I would probably put Halloween 2 right after Halloween 6.
11:27 Now, whether that will change, though, for next year, maybe again, I'll do this as an annual thing.
11:31 Up next, my next favorite of the Halloween films, which I guess this time around is number 6.
11:36 We've got Halloween 3, the season of the witch.
11:38 I did say earlier that I was going to be ranking the movies of Michael Myers.
11:41 Technically, Michael Myers really isn't in Halloween 3 other than just being an advertised TV movie on the TV set.
11:48 But Halloween 3 is one I've already watched this year.
11:50 It's also one of those ones that if I only had a short stack to choose from, Halloween 3 would always be one I watch.
11:55 The main thing about Halloween 3 is also the fact that because Canon, I'm not going to begin to say that word,
12:01 because it's not actually Canon in the rest of the franchise, I can easily watch this at any given point.
12:07 I don't have to necessarily follow it up right after Halloween 2.
12:10 I can watch this right now, for example, like if I've already finished and watched all the other Halloween movies,
12:15 I can always then go back and watch Halloween 3.
12:17 And Halloween 3, in fact, is also one movie that I've also gone back and watched on Halloween night.
12:22 It's just a fun movie. Of course, Silver Shamrock makes masks this time around.
12:26 The whole plan in mind was the idea that John Carpenter was going to branch off from what he was doing with Michael Myers
12:31 and choose instead to have each annual subsequent sequel, so to speak.
12:36 They basically be a different Halloween tale.
12:38 It started, of course, with Halloween 3.
12:40 All the fans always really say one thing that was the biggest problem with this movie was the fact they had to call it Halloween 3.
12:47 If they had only called it, say, Halloween Season of the Witch, or at the very least called it Halloween,
12:51 or even called it Season of the Witch and even just dropping the Halloween title altogether,
12:54 I think it probably would have been embraced earlier into the movie's run.
12:58 Now, though, this movie is well revered, and obviously fans of the franchise really hold this one in high regard.
13:05 Back then it wasn't the case.
13:07 Back then this movie really bound bombs because critics were complaining that it didn't feature Michael Myers.
13:12 But it's a movie now that I feel is really getting the well-deserved acceptance that it wasn't maybe getting before.
13:18 If you never had any chance to watch any of the Halloween films, and you really don't know even know where to jump into,
13:23 don't rule this one out just because it doesn't actually have Michael Myers in it.
13:26 Up next on my list, I've got myself Halloween 5.
13:30 Now, again, you're probably going to be scratching your head asking yourself, "Why would you say Halloween 5?"
13:35 Some would even say it's one of the worst, if not the worst, of the movies.
13:38 Halloween 5, for me, of course, brings back Jamie.
13:41 This time around, again, we've got ourselves Michael Myers coming back.
13:44 Now, the thing I really like also about Halloween 5 is also the fact that, well, Donald Shanks, first of all, is playing Michael Myers this time around.
13:50 I was a little disappointed at the fact that George P. Wilbur couldn't come back and reprise the role,
13:54 kind of keep it consistent because, of course, it kind of takes after the events of Halloween 4.
13:58 But Donald Shanks does an okay job, I feel, for Michael Myers.
14:02 Some will really criticize the fact that the mask looks probably one of the worst.
14:05 It kind of bears more of a resemblance to, I think, a witch or a warlock mask.
14:09 It does bring back, of course, Jamie.
14:11 The thing about Halloween 5 is sort of my same feelings when it came to, like, the Dream Child.
14:15 A lot of people hate Nightmare on Elm Street, Dream Child, but for me, I love Dream Master.
14:20 And for Dream Master, when I was in high school, I would always watch, like, Dream Master,
14:24 and then I would follow up right away with watching Dream Child.
14:27 I would always group the two together.
14:29 For maybe more the idea in mind that Halloween 5 is attached to Halloween 4,
14:34 I feel like because it's so close to Halloween 4, because I like Halloween 4 so much,
14:38 automatically I inherit sort of the love for Halloween 5 as well.
14:41 Now, again, this is one of those movies also as well that I...
14:44 If I was the person that would be sitting along with other people watching these movies,
14:47 I would always be the one that would be joking and making little references behind the scenes
14:51 when scenes popped up in Halloween 5.
14:54 Halloween 5 is not a great movie, but it's a movie I enjoy probably more for the memories
14:58 that I had with Halloween 5 and, again, like with Dream Child,
15:01 because it's more closely attached to Halloween 4.
15:04 I kind of consider the two to be one thing.
15:07 Up next, looking at Halloween Resurrection.
15:11 Why would you put Halloween Resurrection long before the Rob Zombies and the trilogy?
15:15 Well, I'll give you the reason why.
15:17 The reason why I like Halloween Resurrection, I reaffirmed it by the idea of just recently watching it.
15:23 Halloween Resurrection is not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination.
15:27 Busta Rhymes, of course, karate kicking Michael Myers,
15:30 some say that's a total cringe moment, and I certainly would agree.
15:33 The thing I really like also about Halloween Resurrection is that it continues on
15:36 what would be like the remaining of like this...
15:39 Well, I mean, obviously the timeline, the directions have gone in all different directions.
15:42 Of course, you have the Cursed trilogy, you have...
15:45 Of course, you have the Laurie Strode trilogy, which of course does branch off from '78,
15:49 Halloween II, H20, and of course it branches off again for the newer trilogy.
15:53 But one thing I really like about Halloween Resurrection is that it first ties still in Laurie Strode,
15:58 even though, again, very short-lived.
16:00 It also does bring back Michael Myers' home,
16:03 which is something that very drastically takes a direction in Halloween V.
16:06 Whoever decided, "Let's give Michael Myers a gothic mansion for Halloween V,"
16:10 this sort of does bring back Michael Myers to his home, essentially, like literally and figuratively.
16:15 The kills aren't fantastic.
16:17 The idea of actually using an actual cam system as being a reality TV online site...
16:23 Even at the time that this movie came out, it felt outdated.
16:26 I remember even in fact seeing Halloween V in the theaters, and thinking at the time,
16:30 there's something about this technology that even at that time seemed outdated.
16:34 And even, of course, to go back and look at it again,
16:36 watching some of the harsher, like rougher-looking footage that they use in the movie,
16:40 of course, all via the cameras that they have on their heads,
16:43 is a little bit of a departure, and it kind of takes you a bit out of the movie.
16:48 But still, despite that, Halloween Resurrection is one I would still put higher on my list
16:52 than the next movie that we're going to be looking at.
16:55 The next one we're going to be looking at is Halloween from Rob Zombie.
16:59 Now, you're probably, again, asking yourself,
17:01 "Well, why would you put this before the Blumhouse trilogy?"
17:04 The reason why I put this before everything else,
17:07 before, of course, we get down to the actual Blumhouse trilogy,
17:10 the one thing I didn't like about the new trilogy is the direction that they went with
17:13 with the 2018 Halloween.
17:15 Because of that, I had more times actually arguing with the movie,
17:18 yelling out loud, "Why are they doing it this way?
17:20 Why are there so many plot holes in this movie?"
17:23 Halloween, the original Rob Zombie, is one that I actually didn't like as much,
17:27 and I remember even going and seeing it in the theater,
17:29 and at the time, looking over and leaning over to the person I was seeing it with,
17:33 and whispering in her ear, "I'm not liking this at all."
17:36 And in fact, that was right around the time I think he actually beats up the bully in the park.
17:40 I will say, though, about Rob Zombie,
17:42 it's one of those movies that, to go back and look at it now,
17:45 now, I would never go back and watch, say, for example, the original director's cut,
17:50 because I don't like the way that Michael leaves in the original director's cut,
17:53 or work print edition, I think they also call it as well.
17:56 I think, really, once you get past the whole opener with Michael's backstory as a kid,
18:00 I think the moment he really does break out,
18:03 I think is where the movie finally starts to be what it needed to be.
18:07 All the stuff that kind of comes before that,
18:09 with the abuse, of course, he gets at his home,
18:11 the fact that his mother is a stripper,
18:13 the fact that his sister is a little on the looser side,
18:16 if you can get all past that point,
18:18 that's the part of the movie that I really do despise.
18:21 Once you get to that point onward,
18:23 everything else afterwards feels and plays out like a regular Halloween movie.
18:26 I mean, it keeps things very close to the original '78 film,
18:30 but it does things at least a little bit different.
18:32 Now, Tyler Mayne in this time around actually was playing Michael Myers,
18:35 and one big complaint was the fact that Tyler Mayne is over 7 feet tall.
18:38 He's too tall, honestly, for Michael Myers,
18:40 but I still like the direction that they went with this movie.
18:43 To be also said, though, I like the direction of the movie once it gets past the point of the kid.
18:47 The whole opener, again, is not one that I really enjoy watching at all,
18:51 but once we get past that point, it's actually a movie I still enjoy watching.
18:55 I actually, in fact, last year, decided to watch Rob Zombie's Halloween on Halloween night.
19:00 I actually watched it with my mother-in-law,
19:02 and she even at the time was looking at it and saying, "This movie is very brutal."
19:05 Yes, yes, the movie is very brutal.
19:07 So that's Rob Zombie's Halloween.
19:09 Now, we're getting down to the last four titles,
19:12 and you're probably going to be asking yourself, "Well, how is he possibly even going to...?"
19:16 I mean, based on what we're looking at right now and where he's ranked any of these movies,
19:19 what is he going to possibly rank the next movies?
19:22 Well, up next, of the Blumhouse, we're going to go with Halloween Kills first.
19:26 I'll give you the argument as to why I chose Halloween Kills before the 2018 Michael Myers.
19:31 The 2018 Halloween I had a real problem with, more so in the direction that they decided to go with.
19:36 By not actually attaching Cannon to Halloween II,
19:38 and not by making a sibling connection, was really where they lost me in 2018.
19:42 Not to mention, of course, it has really convenient tied-in plot holes,
19:45 where, like, Michael Myers can just escape.
19:47 He's so close to Haddonfield, and someone who's so traumatized by the events of the original film
19:51 could still stay in Haddonfield and be preparing for Michael Myers 40 years later.
19:57 Whatever opinions you may have about the 2018 movie by Blumhouse,
20:00 I honestly, though, of the trilogy, prefer Halloween Kills before the others.
20:04 The reason why I like Halloween Kills as much is because the kill count is good.
20:09 I like the kills that he has in the movie, and it just gets to the point.
20:12 It doesn't have any of the backstory to the point where I was yelling at the TV,
20:15 I was saying, like, "Why would they go in the direction that they went with?"
20:18 Halloween Kills basically just says, "Okay, you've already seen what we did in Halloween 2018.
20:23 This is just more of Michael Myers, and it's more of Michael Myers just simply killing."
20:26 He literally is just killing through the majority of the movie.
20:28 If you can get over the whole, you know, "Evil dies tonight" aspect of things,
20:32 I actually enjoy Halloween Kills of all the three films of the trilogy.
20:37 Halloween Kills is not a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination,
20:40 but I prefer it a lot more than Halloween 2018 and Halloween Ends.
20:44 With that being said, the next film I've decided to go with is Halloween 2018.
20:49 For whatever feelings I have about the film, it's still a film I enjoy more than Halloween Ends,
20:54 and a movie I enjoy a lot more than Rob Zombie's Halloween 2.
20:57 It has a lot of problems with it. Personal problems more so.
21:00 And again, this is coming from somebody that put in third place Halloween H20.
21:04 Halloween H20 for me is a perfect way and a continued arc for the Laurie Strode character,
21:09 not the direction that they went with in this film.
21:11 Now again, that's only my personal opinion.
21:13 Laurie Strode as a survivor of only the 78 film, they really hyped this movie.
21:17 And the biggest problem I really have with this movie is that the way they write the movie,
21:21 they write it to the fans of the franchise that already know all the events that happened before it.
21:27 And yet the script plays out as if Michael Myers is only killed on Halloween night alone.
21:32 He's only killed what, five, six individuals?
21:34 And he's yet so notoriously a serial killer, to the point where, of course,
21:39 somebody with a vlog wants to go and interview him.
21:43 Somehow he escapes, somehow he manages to escape near Haddonfield, and he walks a straight line.
21:48 I can't even imagine they actually mention that in the movie.
21:50 He walks a straight line and somehow manages just to bump into Laurie Strode,
21:54 who's apparently been waiting for this guy for 40 years.
21:56 By not tying it directly into a sibling connection, I think is where the movie falters.
22:01 If they had only managed to keep connected, still the events of Halloween Resurrection.
22:05 I know Laurie Strode, technically, of course, we all know the demise of Laurie Strode in Halloween Resurrection.
22:10 But the thing about it, though, is if, let's say, Laurie Strode had survived the fall in Resurrection,
22:16 you could have then at least tied it into Halloween.
22:19 At the very end of Halloween Resurrection, of course, there's some spoilers for anybody who has already picked that up by now.
22:24 At the end of Halloween Resurrection, Michael Myers is electrocuted and taken to the morgue.
22:29 Well, the person zipping open the body bag does discover that Michael Myers is still alive by the fact his eyes do open.
22:35 I think at that point, Michael could have easily left the morgue and been arrested by police.
22:39 Having heavenly been bruised, battered, and electrocuted, it would have been a lot easier for the police to apprehend Michael Myers,
22:45 to which then he would have spent the majority of his remaining life behind bars until eventually he breaks out in Halloween 2018.
22:52 Instead, what they decide to do instead is flash back to the 1978 film in Halloween Kills
22:58 and just have it simply where Michael walks out the door and is apprehended right away by police.
23:02 Makes no sense. You can't even see it, but I'm shaking my head quite a lot here behind the camera.
23:08 Despite that, Halloween, the 2018 film, is still one that I appreciate more.
23:13 I don't like it. In fact, every single year I will say to the person that I'm with,
23:18 I would much rather, if I only had the choice to choose through Halloween films, I would obviously go through this order first.
23:23 This one, actually, this year, I'm not even deciding to watch the trilogy.
23:26 I watched just recently Ends just to see again if whether it was as bad as I remember.
23:30 It's as bad as I remember, but I don't think this year I'm actually going to watch the new Halloween Blumhouse trilogy.
23:36 I'm fine to actually do without it this time.
23:39 Now, again, like despite that, it's pretty high on my list of least favorite Halloween films,
23:45 but it's not nearly where I would put, say, Halloween Ends and Rob Zombie's Halloween 2.
23:51 Speaking of the last two, I guess I've already kind of said that.
23:54 The reasoning why, okay, now you're probably going to be saying to yourself,
23:58 "Why would you then put Halloween Ends? I mean, we all know your feelings of Halloween Ends.
24:02 Why would you put Halloween Ends not as your least favorite Halloween film?"
24:06 Well, the reason why I don't, and the reasoning why Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 is my least favorite of the Halloween movies,
24:12 it's just more so the fact that it still is with Halloween Ends.
24:15 Okay, here's my defense for Halloween Ends, and this is coming from somebody that does not like Halloween Ends.
24:20 One thing I do like about the movie is the tone, the music, and sort of the atmospheric mood that Halloween Ends sets.
24:27 I actually like Corey Cunningham as well.
24:29 I don't like the direction that they went with for the character, and I honestly really feel like with Corey Cunningham,
24:34 it's a character that should have been introduced well early into the trilogy.
24:38 He could have been introduced, say, in the original 20... or he could have been introduced in 2018 Halloween.
24:42 He could have then been established maybe killing the kid accidentally in Halloween Kills,
24:46 and then in Halloween Ends would have been then years later where Corey Cunningham could have been trying to put his life back together.
24:52 Instead, what they unfortunately do is they rush through Corey Cunningham's entire story arc in the span of one movie,
24:59 and at the expense of Michael Myers.
25:01 And that's my biggest problem, really, with Halloween Ends.
25:03 It's not the development of Corey Cunningham, but it came at the expense of Michael Myers.
25:08 Michael Myers should not be living in a sewer.
25:10 Michael Myers should not be getting beaten down by a kid that's already being bullied already and have his mask stolen.
25:15 And the whole idea that his powers are somehow inside his mask, that the moment he loses his mask,
25:20 Corey Cunningham becomes stronger, even though we already saw him getting bullied earlier into the movie.
25:25 Halloween Ends by no way is any perfect film.
25:29 I mean, obviously, we already know where my direction has gone when it comes to the rankings of these movies.
25:33 Halloween Ends could have been a lot better of a movie.
25:36 I like the idea of a copycat killer.
25:39 The fact that, unlike Michael Myers, who was actually evil personified, Corey Cunningham actually started as a normal kid.
25:46 And through the process of having the rest of the town hate him and make him into a monster,
25:50 he was in fact the town that made Corey Cunningham into a killer.
25:54 That's the direction I wish that the movie could have gone with.
25:56 But instead, what they unfortunately do is they rush through a lot of backstory.
26:01 And what it ends up translating to is Michael Myers has to take a backseat for Corey Cunningham,
26:05 only for Corey Cunningham to get rushed through on a story arc.
26:08 Halloween Ends is my second least favorite of the Halloween films.
26:12 Now, I've gone again, gone back and watched Halloween Ends.
26:14 I haven't watched Halloween Kills and Halloween 2018 this year, and I don't even think I'm planning to do that either.
26:19 But Halloween Ends for me is my second least favorite of the Halloween movies.
26:23 Now, here's the reason why I chose Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 as my least favorite of the Halloween movies.
26:29 Even though it has the direction following up to, of course, the original Rob Zombie Halloween,
26:34 the thing I don't really like about it is the fact that it's the least Michael Myers in all of the movies.
26:40 I mean, obviously, I'm not going to include Halloween 3.
26:42 Halloween Ends at least has a Michael Myers that's in his coveralls and he's wearing the mask.
26:47 What little time he's actually wearing the mask.
26:49 The problem I really have with Halloween 2, it's a very brutal movie.
26:53 I mean, it's obviously, it follows still the same formula as what Rob Zombie normally does with all his movies.
26:58 Rob Zombie loves rape. Rob Zombie loves brutality.
27:00 And of course, Halloween 2 and Halloween, the original Halloween has a lot of that,
27:04 especially if you ever watch the work print version of Halloween and how Michael Myers originally escapes.
27:08 Halloween 2 just, again, carries on a lot more of that.
27:11 But unfortunately, with the direction now that Rob Zombie had, I think he had more freedom to do Halloween 2.
27:16 And because of that, it ended up meaning as well that he could go a lot more literal with what he wanted to do with the direction of the movie.
27:22 It meant that Michael Myers, I mean, most of the time was actually just a hermit, a homeless man,
27:26 just walking the wild wilderness, can't get that out, eating dogs, killing people along the way.
27:33 And I also didn't like the direction that he also went with with Laurie Strode.
27:36 Laurie Strode became very erratic, very frantic, just like unwound.
27:41 And I guess that would be the direction a character would probably go anyways,
27:44 having survived the events of the original Rob Zombie Halloween.
27:47 But I personally don't like Halloween 2.
27:49 At least I would say to the defense of Halloween ends, while I don't like Halloween ends at all,
27:54 I at least like that it feels more like a Halloween movie.
27:57 This doesn't feel as much like a Halloween movie for me.
27:59 It just feels like a Rob Zombie movie.
28:01 And probably one of the reasons again, why I would say Halloween 2 is my least favorite,
28:06 when I know I'm so very openly advocating the idea that Halloween ends is a terrible movie.
28:10 At least it has more of a feel of Halloween, and it doesn't have as much the brutality of Halloween 2.
28:15 So there's my rankings of the Halloween films.
28:18 Do you agree with me? Do you disagree with me?
28:20 I'd love to see what you guys say down below in the comment section.
28:23 Tell me in your own personal writing, what your favorite Halloween film is,
28:27 all the way down to your least favorite.
28:29 And would any of these perhaps match the ones that I did in this video?
28:32 Of course, if you guys wanted to see this on a regular basis,
28:35 maybe I might just decide to do this next year also as well,
28:38 to see if my personal tastes have changed.
28:40 I mean, if you had asked me again like last year,
28:43 I might have actually even said it would have been Halloween 4, Halloween 2 probably,
28:49 H2O, and then probably Halloween 6.
28:51 I don't think the order would have changed all that much.
28:53 Maybe I would have even had Halloween 5 further down on my list of more favorites than least favorites.
28:59 But yeah, my tastes will always change.
29:01 And of course, the way that I'm also looking at the ranking of these movies
29:04 may not always just have something to do with the actual movies themselves.
29:07 But again, the memories, the fun that I've had,
29:09 the people I've hung around and watched these movies with,
29:11 I'll kind of tack that onto as well.
29:14 It's the fondness, it's the feelings that you have when you watch these movies
29:18 that you can always go back and when you think to yourself,
29:20 "Oh, I remember watching this movie and I remember doing this and we were having pizza and we're having a laugh."
29:24 All of that kind of contributes towards the ranking of how I rank these movies.
29:27 But do you agree with me? Do you disagree with me?
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