With the release of Halloween Ends Today, October 14th, I thought it would be a good time to go through and take a look at the different timelines of the Halloween franchise. Coincidentally there are 5 distinct timelines within the Halloween Franchise, so today is the culmination of our five day look at the five timelines every day this week. Welcome to Halloween Timeline part five.
In 1978 the original Halloween, directed and scored by John Carpenter, was released independently by Compass International Pictures. Who could have imagined that this independent horror film in 1978 would spark a franchise that would span over four decades, thirteen films with five distinct timelines. Here is Halloween timeline part five.
This timeline begins the same as the first timeline in the series so for a breakdown of Halloween (1978) you can check the original post by clicking here. This timeline skips everything following the original Halloween and picks up 40 years later.
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2018)
Halloween 2018 picks up forty years after the original. This begins a new trilogy of films coming off the original movie in 1978. The film is directed by David Gordon Green and was written by Jeff Fradley, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green. Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode who is now older and a recluse waiting for her day to kill Michael Myers. Michael Myers has been in Smith’s Grove following the events of the 1978 film. Two podcasters visit him as he is being prepared to be moved to a maximum security prison for life. One of the podcasters has the mask that Michael used in the original killings and pulls it out trying to get a rise out of Michael to no avail. In wrestling terms Michael no sold it. Michael is being transferred on October 30th and Laurie is watching while drinking in her car. After the bus gets off with no issues, she heads to dinner with her estranged daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak). That night the bus crashes and Michael escapes not before murdering a father and son who stop to see if they can help.
We pick up on Halloween and Michael goes to his sister Judith’s grave. He sees the podcasters there and follows them to a gas station where he kills them both as well as the gas station mechanic and retrieves his mask from the trunk of their car. Laurie, learning of his escape warns Karen but she ignores the concerns. Michael kills Allyson’s friend Vicky and her boyfriend Dave while they are babysitting Julian. Laurie hears about the incident on the police scanners and heads over, she sees Michael for the first time in 40 years and shoots him in the shoulder and he just shrugs it off and keeps going as if he does not know her. Later that night after leaving a Halloween party where her boyfriend cheated on her, Allyson encounters Michael after he kills her friend Oscar by impaling him on a fence.
Dr. Sartain is riding with deputy Frank Hawkins (Will Patton) hunting for Michael. They arrive and rescue Allyson, see Michael and run him over. Hawkins gets out to kill him but is subdued by Dr. Sartain who is obsessed with Michael and worked on his prison transport escape. He wanted to study him in the wild so to say. Sartain loads Michael in the car with Allyson and heads to Laurie’s home. Michael awakens and kills Dr. Sartain while Allyson escapes. Michael kills the police outside the home as well as Karen’s husband Ray. In a series of events that mirror the first film Laurie is the hunter and Michael is the hunted. Her house is filled with traps as she was envisioning this day for years. Finally she, with the help of Karen, trap Michael in the basement and ignite gas to burn him and the house to the ground. They get in the back of a pick up truck that was passing by to take Laurie, who has been stabbed, to the hospital.
Halloween Kills (2021)
Following up in the Halloween timeline part five is the 2021 film Halloween Kills, also directed by David Gordon Green. This film picks up immediately after the last one, with the Strode family in the back of the pickup truck and they hear sirens going to put out the fire. We have flashbacks to Hawkins stopping Loomis from killing Michael back in 1978. He is found by Allyson’s cheating boyfriend Cameron Elam who calls an ambulance for him. At a bar, Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall), Lindsey Wallace (portrayed by Kyle Richards again), Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) and Lonnie Elam celebrate together 40 years as survivors of Michael Myers. We see the firefighters arrive at Lauries house and unknowingly unleash Michael who goes on a violent killing spree of the firemen. He then heads next door and murders the neighbors violently.
Tommy and the others learn of the escape of Michael and another inmate Lance Tivoli. One of the bar patrons thinks Michael was in her car and a mob is formed going after the car but the person escapes. Karen is told that Michael is alive but does not tell Laurie to allow her to recover from her surgery. Allyson and Cameron join the mob in hunting down Michael. Marion, Vanessa, Marcus and Lindsey are telling people to get off the streets and come across girls at a park. Lindsey goes to them and they tell her about a man watching. It is Michael…. He proceeds to kill Marion, Marcus and Vanessa but Lindsey is found alive by Tommy. They take her to the hospital and realize that Michael is heading towards his childhood home. As they are at the hospital the other inmate arrives and is mistaken as Michael (not sure how you mistake this guy for Michael but ok) and is chased by the mob until he eventually jumps out a window to his death.
Karen works with Tommy and Sheriff Brackett to lure Michael away and have the mob decimate him. At his childhood home, Michael has slaughtered Lonnie and Cameron and is about to off Allyson when Karen appears and stabs him, steals his mask and gets him to chase her. As she lures him, the mob is in wait and pounce once he is where they want him. He takes an asswhooping and is seemingly dead. Some of the mob disperses and Michael comes around and slaughters those who remain including Tommy Doyle. Karen had gone back to the old Myers home and Allyson is being worked on. Karen heads upstairs to Judith’s old room looking out the window and Michael appears behind her and kills her.
Halloween Ends (2022)
This brings us to current day with the final film in the “trilogy” being released today. The film opens up in 2019 a year after the events of the last movie and Michael has been nowhere to be found. We see Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), who seems like a good dude and is going to be babysitting for a well off family for their son Jeremy. Towards the end of the time together, the boy plays a prank on Corey and locks him in the attic. The parents arrive home and Corey is trying to get out of the attic and busts open the door. Jeremy is on the other side of the door and the door accidentally boots him over the balcony and he plummets to his death as his parents are walking in through the door.
The story now picks up 3 years later. Laurie has bought a new house and is living with Allyson and is writing a memoir about her experience. Cory now works at a salvage yard and is still hated in Haddonfield. He gets picked on by bullies and gets injured. Laurie assists him and gives him a knife to pop the tires on the bullies car. He soon begins a relationship with Allyson and at a Halloween party he sees the woman who he was babysitting for. Corey leaves the party and is confronted by the bullies again. They throw him off a bridge and he is dragged into the sewers as a homeless man watches. Corey awakens and is grabbed by Michael who looks into Corey’s eyes and they almost have a “passing of the torch” moment and Corey is let go. On his way out of the sewer, the homeless man confronts him with the knife Corey dropped as he was tossed off the bridge and during a struggle Corey stabs the man.
Corey and Allyson go on a date to make up for him bailing at the Halloween party. They run into a police officer, who happens to be Allyson’s ex boyfriend who harasses them. Corey lures him to the sewer for Michael to kill. It seems like Michael gains strength from the kill. Michael and Corey head to a Doctor’s home to murder him and the woman his is having an affair with as Allyson had learned she was passed over for a promotion because of the affair. Corey goes home and is berated by his mother. He leaves and heads to the abandoned house where the little boy died. On Halloween day, Corey heads to the sewers and fights Michael and successfully takes his mask and escapes. Corey goes on a murder spree killing the bullies at the salvage yard and accidentally kills his uncle (the manager of the yard). He then kills his mother and a DJ at the radio station who earlier had and encounter with Allyson and Corey. He then goes to Laurie’s house and she fakes suicide and shoots him and he falls down the stairs. At the bottom of the steps, he stabs himself in the neck to make it look like Laurie is doing this to keep him from Allyson.
Michael arrives, kills Corey by snapping his neck and the part we have all been waiting for is on. The main event is here, let’s get ready to rumble…….. Michael and Laurie fight with each other for a short period. Laurie is able to pin Michael to the countertop by hammering a knife through is hand with a frying pan and knocking the refrigerator over onto him. She takes off his mask, slits his throat and as he is dying he rips his hand off the knife and grabs her throat. Allyson arrives and snaps his arm like a twig. Laurie then slits his wrists as well and he is dead.
They strap him to the roof of their car and there is like a funeral procession through Haddonfield to the scrap yard where Laurie places him in the shredder. We see Michael’s body get destroys and blood flies and evil is dead. Allyson leaves Haddonfield, Laurie finishes her memoir and seems to rekindle things with Deputy Hawkins.
Thoughts of the Halloween timeline part five
Halloween timeline part five is an interesting one to say the least. We get the original Halloween as a starting point which is an amazing film. In my eyes it is the perfect film. The 2018 movie I felt was pretty damn awesome as well. Halloween Kills and Ends both lacked a bit for me and seemed to be a steep dive off from the 2018 film. I will be doing a full review of the new film today so stay tuned for that!
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