Halloween
“The night he came home!”
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
How Halloween compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Halloween, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 11
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 22%
- Share of the series audience
Halloween (1978) is the highest-rated of the 11 rated films in the Halloween series, at 7.6/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.0/10.
It is the film that started the series, 44 years before the most recent entry, Halloween Ends (2022).
Its 6,534 TMDB ratings are 22% of the 29,282 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Halloween, comparing all 11 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
Halloween
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