Watch : Halloween Costumes for the Pop Culture Obsessed: These Scream 2026 It's hard to believe the Halloween saga is over for good. But Michael Myers has been off the streets for four whole years since Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode finally took him down in 2022's Halloween Ends, 44 years after the sorta-supernatural serial slasher first terrorized the only responsible babysitter in Haddonfield on All Hallows' Eve. But while you'll have to rely on repeat viewings to relive those chills, you do have many, many Halloween incarnations and installments to choose from, Halloween Ends having capped off a trilogy that was filmmaker David Gordon Green's answer to the John Carpenter-directed original from 1978. They didn't mention a trilogy, they mentioned one movie, Curtis told E! News in July 2022 about agreeing to revisit her iconic final girl role in 2018's Halloween, which begs audiences to forget the seven films (plus the Rob Zombie-directed 2007 remake and 2009 sequel) released in the interim. Contractual minutiae aside, that was a very freeing experience, Curtis said, crediting Green's approach behind the camera-and the film's sweet financial success-for jolting her own creative spirit back to life. Getting a taste of the way David worked was like [remembering], 'Oh, s--t! This is fun!' #eonline #podcastdailynews