Where To Watch Every Halloween Movie Online

Where would horror be today without John Carpenter’s masterpiece? The 1978 low-budget film gave way to the slasher subgenre and a whole slew of lackluster attempts to replicate its success. Of course, that success also meant sequels, remakes, and reboots galore for the franchise.

Like all great horror franchises, the series has had highs and lows, but there seems to be something of a Halloween renaissance with the new batch of Blumhouse-guided films. With Halloween Kills offiically, now is a good time to get started on the strange cinematic maze that is the Halloween series. These films can mostly be found online.

Updated on November 24, 2021, by Kevin Pantoja: Thanks to the arrival of Halloween 2018 and now Halloween Kills, interest is as high as it has been in a long time for this iconic slasher franchise. Although most of these films are from decades ago, the new era of technology has allowed for something unique. Halloween streaming is now a year-round thing. With so many streaming services out there though, that can lead a fan to ask themselves, “Where can I watch the Halloween movies?” Luckily, this can now be your one stop shop to find out where you can see every spooky adventure in the franchise, regardless of when it happened.

Halloween (1978)

• Stream On AMC+, Hoopla, Roku, Shudder, & Red Box

The one that started the whole thing, John Carpenter’s seminal slasher is one of the most beloved horror films of all time. Almost universally respected, the simple story explores the horrifying story of Laurie Strode as she is stalked and terrorized by Michael Myers, who is quite literally a living boogeyman.

Curtis is still as watchable as she was in 1978 in her debut role, the iconic score remains unbelievably eerie, and the clever ways Carpenter frames Michael all help the original Halloween retain its spooky power over 40 years on. Of the streaming services you can find it on, Hoopla is interesting since it’s free with a library card.

Halloween II (1981)

• Stream On AMC+

A direct follow-up to the original, Halloween II is the film that established much of the initial lore surrounding Michael Myers. Thankfully Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance returned to finish out the Laurie Strode storyline (for the first time, that is).

A much more outwardly bloody and gory film, Halloween II is far from an embarrassment, but it has little of the same creeping dread of its predecessor. Perhaps most notably, the film reveals that Michael and Laurie are, in fact, siblings. Of course, this relationship would return in later installments, to increasingly diminishing returns.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

• Stream On AMC+

After Halloween II attempted to wrap up the arc of Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, a curious choice was made to attempt the continuation of the franchise as a yearly anthology installment. What resulted from the risk was something of a noble failure.

Halloween III is a bizarre film that borders on being so-bad-its-good, but long stretches of nothing going and the damning mixture of bad acting meeting bad writing make the film fairly unwatchable. The film was poorly received and is now defended by a small group of followers. Though not essential to the lore, it’s interesting to see such a different take.

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

• Stream On Shudder & AMC+

Ditching roman numerals and the anthology strategy, the series returned six years later with Michael Myers back as the villain. There are lots of fans of the series that have fond impressions of this film, but by this point, the cracks had begun to show. Laurie Strode has been killed off, and the film suffers from Jamie Lee Curtis’s absence.

Thankfully, Donald Pleasance once again came back to pursue the now fully supernatural being that Michael Myers has become. Far from the worst the franchise has to offer, Halloween 4 nevertheless is still considered by many to be a pretty bad movie.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

• Stream On AMC+ & Shudder

Released the following year, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers follows up on the events of its predecessor by continuing the story of Jamie Lloyd, the niece of Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. This film is the first in the series that produces some truly unintentional humor.

As Jamie develops a telepathic connection with Myers, scenes of Michael killing people intercut with Jamie’s supernatural seizures and are some seriously schlocky stuff worth watching with a group of horror buffs one night for fun. Hard to take seriously but worth a look for sheer goofiness.

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

• Stream On Showtime

After another six-year gap, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is another episodic installment in the Michael Myers saga that had by this point, become a slasher soap opera. There are some fun ’90s nostalgia-themed laughs to be had with this one, but the absolutely wild druids/cult storyline mixed with the unsatisfying death of the previous protagonist Jamie Lloyd makes this film fade into the melodramatic background.

Additionally, there are some really odd stretches the film takes to connect it to the original installment, all of which fall flat. On the plus side, it has Paul Rudd in it.

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

• Stream On AMC+

One of the more respected of the Halloween sequels, H20 brought back the heart of the series in Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. The film is actually a fairly fun watch, competently directed and elevated immeasurably by Strode’s return.

After revealing Laurie’s death was a ruse to get her out of Michael’s grasp, the two meet again to hash out their unfinished business. What largely amounts to the best of all possible course corrections given the state of the series at the time, H20 is a nice reprieve from the muck of the last few movies.

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

• Stream On AMC+

The film that effectively killed the original series, leaving it in shambles until Rob Zombie brought his C-4 to the mix, Resurrection is a misfire from the get-go. Directed by the man who helmed Halloween II, Resurrection is a direct sequel to H20.

Jamie Lee Curtis appears briefly before Laurie Strode is, once again, killed off. A mind-boggling plot involving webcam broadcasts of Michael’s murders, Busta Rhymes being an odd choice for the hero, and a tone that is confounding combine to make one of the very worst offerings of the series.

Halloween (2007)

• Stream On FX Now

One saving grace of this Rob Zombie-helmed remake is Malcolm McDowell’s deliciously overacted turn as Dr. Loomis. Unfortunately, many critics felt this was a bit too much in the way of being overly gory. Zombie’s skill behind the camera as demonstrated in The Devil’s Rejects was seen to be lacking in his take on Michael Myers.

When he attempts to adapt elements of the original, they sometimes pale in comparison. However, worse than that is his attempts to weave in his own origin story for Michael Myers. Despite disappointing reviews, this film still managed to be a minor box office hit.

Halloween II (2009)

• Rent On Apple TV & Vudu

Somehow this sequel was considered to be even uglier and more purposeless than the first go-around. Representing a more nihilistic and detached style than its predecessor, Halloween II continues Zombie’s revisionist take on the struggle between Laurie Strode and the savage Michael Myers.

Myers is a frightening figure throughout both of Zombie’s films, but the rest of the elements never come together to create anything more than a particularly brutal big budget fan-film.

Halloween (2018)

• Stream On Fubo TV

The latest attempt to revive the series sees indie darling David Gordon Green’s take on the material, which brings back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. A direct continuation of the original classic, the new film disregards everything that comes after.

The resulting retooled vision is lots of fun to watch and Green is able to capture a lot of the independent spirit of the 1978 classic. Additionally, Lee Curtis is absolutely wonderful as Laurie as she presents a woman permanently affected for the worse by what happened that fateful Halloween night 40 years prior.

Halloween Kills (2021)

• Stream On Peacock

An alarming trend continued with Halloween Kills as yet another sequel in this franchise couldn’t quite live up to the original. Although fans appreciated this more than critics, it was still seen as inferior to Halloween 2018 but did set up an interesting final installment in Halloween Ends.

Though Michael was left for dead coming into this, he finds a way out and goes on his usual killing spree. The twist here is that Laurie is hospitalized for most of the runtime, leaving Michael to face off against her daughter, granddaughter, and the residents of Haddonfield.

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