The 3 movies you need to watch to understand “Halloween: Ends” and where to watch them

The Halloween horror saga is about to end with the latest film “Halloween: ends”that is about to come to light, thrilling horror fans to see the outcome of the story that hit theaters in 1978. The film will be released on October 13 in Mexico, but there are 3 films that precede it to understand this tape.

With 13 films in total, you probably need to know something about the history of the Halloween saga before you see it, even if you don’t need to see all the installments. The chronology itself is a bit confusing, and they are not consecutive, being made up of several timelines, a remake with a sequel directed by Rob Zombieand even a remake in which Michael Myers does not appear.

If you haven’t seen the entire saga, but want to see and understand “Halloween: Ends”, you just have to see 3 of the films in the franchise, which are linked consecutively, just like the episodes, and luckily we can find them on different streaming platforms, so you can enjoy them before you go to see it at the cinema.

Halloween (1978) – Amazon Prime

This is the film that started the entire franchise and was born from the creative mind of the director. John Carpenter. He introduces us for the first time the fearsome killer, Michael Myers, and the character of Laurie Strode, played by Jamie Lee Curtiswho would be the protagonist of several films in the saga and the most iconic of all, of course.

In it we see Michael Myers’ beginnings as a child, with a first scene that has become a classic within the genre where Michael kills his older sister. After this, Myers is taken to a psychiatric hospital, from which he ends up escaping, only to commit a series of murders in an attempt to return to his old home.

Halloween (2018) – Apple TV +

This film is directed by David Gordon Green, who also directs “Halloween: Ends”. The 2018 film is a direct sequel to the first film. That is to say that, from the first film of 1978, one must absolutely ignore all the others and move on to that of 2018, since it is a direct continuation of the first film.

Here we see how Myers spent four decades in a psychiatric institution and are about to take him to another place. During the trip, the car in which they were transporting him suffers an accident and he is released, precisely on October 31st. In addition to that, her sister Laurie spent four decades preparing for the return of the one who nearly killed her. The meeting is full of action and a lot of blood.

Halloween Kills (2021) – HBO Max

The same night we were in the previous movie, Laurie is injured after confronting Michael Myers, whom she claims she managed to kill. However, it is not so easy to kill the personification of evil. This is the continuation of 2018’s “Halloween” and it would be like a “Part Three” from the movie released in 1978.

The complete list of 13 Halloween movies

• Halloween (1978)
• Halloween II (1981)
• Halloween III: Season of the Witches (1982)
• Halloween 4: Return of Michael Myers (1988)
• Halloween 5: Michael Myers’ Revenge (1989)
• Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
• Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
• Halloween (2007)
• Halloween II (2009)
• Halloween (2018)
• Halloween kills: the night is not over yet (2021)
• Halloween: Ends (2022)

Now ‘Halloween: Ends’, is the last film in the Halloween saga, is four years after the events that happened in the previous film and will mark the last confrontation between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. It will surely give us the ending that one of the most loved Hollywood franchises by horror fans deserves.