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WTF You Need to Know about the Halloween franchise

By Cody Hamman

Posted 4 years ago

Halloween, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, and Halloween 5 are returning to theatres in the U.S. this October

It doesn’t get any more appropriate than this. Today is Halloween, and a new episode of the WTF You Need to Know video series has been released to tell you everything you need to know about the Halloween movie franchise! You can watch it – and take in the information – in the embed above.

The Halloween franchise consists of the 1978 classic original, Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5 (which is referred to as Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers in the marketing material), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, Halloween: Resurrection, the 2007 remake, a sequel to the remake, a 2018 sequel to the original film that is also called Halloween, Halloween Kills, and this year’s release Halloween Ends (read our review HERE).

Here’s the information on WTF You Need to Know: Sometimes binging a whole franchise just isn’t feasible as there are only so many hours in the day. And you’re often left with a lot of questions like: What was that sequel you liked again? When did the series start getting bad? Which is the most fun? We wanted to make it a little easier for those who wanted to either revisit or get into some horror franchises for the very first time. So join us as we tell you WTF You Need To Know about various popular horror movie franchises.

About the Author

Cody Hamman

Horror News Editor

19,043 Articles Published

Favorite Movies: The Friday the 13th franchise, Kevin Smith movies, the films of read more George A. Romero (especially the initial Dead trilogy), Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, FleshEater, Intruder, Let the Right One In, Return of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, Jaws, Tremors, From Dusk Till Dawn, Phantasm, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, Back to the Future trilogy, Dazed and Confused, the James Bond series, Mission: Impossible, the MCU, the list goes on and on

Likes: Movies, horror, '80s slashers, podcasts, animals, traveling, Brazil (the country), the read more Cinema Wasteland convention, classic rock, Led Zeppelin, Kevin Smith, George A. Romero, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Richard Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, James Bond, Tom Cruise, Marvel comics, the grindhouse/drive-in era

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