Halloween - your top 3 -

[strangeways]

I'm a big Halloween / Michael Myers / John Carpenter fan and seeing as it was just that time of year -
Which is best?
Vote for your top 3 !
Plus, if you've seen them all then rank them all in order of preference!

[PinkWiz]

Gotta go with the original as #1... nothin' beats it! Part 2 is a close second and even though Michael Myers had nothing to do with it Season of the Witch is third just for the sheer creepiness when I was 10.

I couldn't get into the Rob Zombie remakes even though he did use God of Thunder in the first one.

[shramiac]

Never seen one!

[poserboy71]

I'm not into Horror films but I have seen the first ,SO ...

I'm sure Rob Zombie's versions are brutal.

[doublev2]

i hate horror but i can say I like the poster to the first one the best even though i don't like that either. I think when I was in high school I saw one of them.

[strangeways]

Huge fan of the original, the series as an idea and Carpenter in general.

My rankings -

1.) Halloween (1978) - the original and still king
2.) Halloween H20 (1998) - Jamie Lee is back with a vengeance - sweet
3.) Halloween (2007) - Zombie remake is decent but not great -
4.) Halloween II (2009) - Zombie sequel is decent but not great -
5.) Halloween 4 (1988) - the return - nice to see M.M. back in action -
6.) Halloween 5 (1989) - meh
7.) Halloween 6 (1995) - interesting
8.) Halloween III (1982) - no relation to the series -
9.) Halloween II (1981) - horrible - Jamie Lee sits around and waits -
10.) Halloween Resurrection (2002) - the worst - awful - pointless -

The original is still king.
It would've been my preference that they not make another one after the original, but.....they did and it didn't really do much for me.
Halloween II (1981) had Jamie sitting around and doing nothing which was the total opposite of the first one. Lame. Were there some quality kills? Sure, but I feel that it almost betrayed the spirit of the original by having Jamie Lee just sit around and wait.
Halloween III (1982) was not related to the series and was just an average horror movie.
A break of about five years and Michael came back to us in Halloween 4. Not half bad, but not great. Halloween 5 and 6 really didn't do much for me.
And now the come back - Halloween H20 -despite it's lame title this was actually a decent movie. The return of Jamie Lee Curtis and a great last half hour showdown between her and Micheal. This is the type of movie that should've been made after the original. This should've been the end of the series, but.....
they came back with the worst Halloween ever.
Halloween Resurrection is a sad affair that should've never been made and is infuriating in its existence.

Now we come to the Zombie movies.
My problem with Zombie is that his films before this were in my opinion - mediocre. His films have some great individual scenes within them and I admire his efforts to take the genre back to a more gritty Texas Chainsaw feel, but he has yet to put together a complete movie in my eyes. I was hoping he would up his game when it came to the Halloween films but it was not to be. I thought it was a good idea to focus a little bit more on Michael and his masks and whatnot, but after that he really didn't do much of anything with the character (except put M.M. on steroids it would seem). The Zombie sequel is also interesting but never really goes anywhere. The problem is that so many of the Halloween sequels were so awful that Zombie's films are refreshing just for the fact that he did something different.

In the end I go with the original Halloween, H20 and the Zombie remake as the top three.

[PinkWiz]

I never made it thru any of rob zombie's movies. the last halloween one he did fukn blew... I stopped it about 20 minutes in. no plot, no nothin... just gore for the sake of gore.