Live Poll: Best 'Halloween' Franchise Movie

@dan_dassow Okay, I'd better make my own poll suggestion.

@khadafimahfud8​ ,

Your poll suggestion is fine. I just wanted to give @James_The_Movie_Guy a chance to respond in the remote chance that he would like to update his poll.

@jeorj_euler​ 

Your choice is very objective and different from the others.

I understand that Halloween III was something of an unexpected curiosity for moviegoers since none of the characters from the previous two films showed up again, and the subgenre of horror was different, seeing as how it is not a slasher type at all. The fact that the Halloween series of movies was intended to form a thematically-diverse horror anthology was not conveyed too clearly to the public from the getgo. For fan's of John Carpenter's work (in which he also scores the music, as was the case in the 1980s and late '70s), it makes sense, especially considering They Live and, well, Assault on Precinct 13 also. Anyway, I feel that having Jamie Lee Curtis reprise her role as Lorie Strode twice (in two-decade intervals), after Michael Meyers perished in the hospital fire hasn't really helped the franchise. If she lives a long time, I hope she doesn't do this again when she is eighty years old, even if surprisingly physically fit for the purpose, unless maybe it is just a very short cameo. Now, come to think of it, I sort of wonder if the Friday the 13th movie franchise might have been originally intended to be an anthology too, like the television series. Well, at least, now, we have The Conjuring universe to take such a concept's place, and the studio behind it has taken care to not to assign all the connected movies the same supertitle.

Notably, one of the clear advantages of Michael Meyers' story over Conal Cochran's is that the audience can maybe connect with it more on a personal level, and scenarios like it have probably happened many times throughout history, whether the antagonists taking the form of serial killers, jealous betrothed, schizophrenic PTSD sufferers, cult followers, invading armies, political assassins/ninjas or mobsters. Whereas [and with subtle spoilers ahead], Silver Shamrock is like a complete inversion of the general delightfulness of Willy Wonka outside the chocolate factory itself, and I'm not aware of anybody in all of history being so hateful of a possibly-prank-oriented holiday enough to actually play a prank on the average consumer, on a massive scale and likely ushering in the "end of days" at the same time, with the world overrun with venomous predators. The only other movie that I can think of vaguely resembling the concept is Cabin in the Woods, in which the matter of averting catastrophe has secretly long been formulated into standard operating procedure.

@Peter_pbn​ Done.