I have the R2 UK H20 which is anamorphic. Basically, if you buy it in any country except the US, it will likely be anamorphic.

But http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=941 says it's non-anamorphic but people here are saying they have anamorphic.

DVD Compare is usually always correct so I'll have to listen to what it says there. Hope a Anamorphic soon comes out though.

Hmm...

Didn't realize there were that many versions of 6.

I have the Producer's Cut. Guess I better start searching some torrent sites.

we don't talk about that sort of thing around here.

I would definitley get the Halloween 25 Years Of Terror DVD. It is totally worth it. Jam packed with great stuff that sent this Halloween fan into hysterics.

I say go ahead and get Part 3 too. It got a lot of bad press, but taken on it's own, it's kind of a fun and interesting movie. It still has that great early 80s/Dean Cundey vibe to it and a great mood to it that a lot of later sequels didn't have.

You know what the other sequels DID have that part 3 DIDN'T?

MICHAEL MYERS

I had to, I couldn't resist.

And that would be a good thing...Halloween with Michael Myers is a waste of time after the second one. Just another slasher flick after that(just my opinion but true..lol). Halloween III would be considered a cult classic(to many of us still is) if it weren't for the fact it got stuck in that franchise. Had it been just called Season of the Witch it wouldn't be getting any crap. Heaven forbid we ever have an original story in horror better to have 20 sequels...ugh! 301 more days til halloween, halloween, halloween. 301 more days til Halloween, Silver Shamrock!!!

I'd like to know where and how you got an anamorphic R1 cut of this film as the studio released it as non-anamorphic as 1rst described in this thread.
Mine is definately not anamorphic. And I have th 25th year anniversary Anchor Bay Divimax edition of Halloween...is this the approved version as it does not mention THX Certified. I must say though I am very pleased with the edition I have!

Well there are tons of people who like sequels to horror movies, me included. If they had released III as Season of the Witch it probably would still get crap because IMO it's a stupid movie. I understand how to separate myself from the series and watch it for what it's worth, but I didn't like the movie. I have plenty of other sequels to enjoy, but this is just a bad movie.

You're relatively new here, so welcome, and you're already contributing with an intelligent comment! I agree with you 100%. The HALLOWEEN sequels with Michael Myers are dreadful - and I mean all of them, except #2 which is decent. I saw all the HALLOWEEN films as they were released and was sick of Michael Myers from #4 on. As far as the merits (or non-merits) of HALLOWEEN 3 goes, I didn't much like the film when it first came out, but it had nothing to do with the absence of Michael Myers. I just thought the film was stupid (which it is, but at least in a fun way in the right mindset). At that point, I really appreciated the idea of their plan to do an entirely different story and screenplay each year for the HALLOWEEN franchise instead of the usual crappy sequels. Unfortunately, that never happened as #3 wasn't well received and eventually Michael Myers was resurrected for the never-ending terrible and repetitive sequels.

Over the years, I appreciate HALLOWEEN 3 more and more. It's still not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a thing of its time and does offer some original fun that #4 and on don't. People may still have hated it if it wasn't under the HALLOWEEN banner, but how anyone can defend #5, 6, or 8 and trash #3 for trying something new is beyond me.

You sir, are a very smart man. Agree with all of that...even with the part about it not being a great movie. It's funny how that goes but in looking through my modest collection I've found the ones I keep and watch more than once are often the ones that aren't considered great film making or at least not popular film making, but they have a quality that makes them either cheesy fun or have an original story that draws me back. I can point to many John Carpenter films that are not great but very re-watchable if that is a term.

Oh and The Monkees yes I agree there is "tons" of people who like sequels...which is part of the problem, people keep buying into them so thats all we get. Sequels are on rare occasions done well(Aliens) but more often then not they are lazy filmmaking to make a buck. Power to you for liking them but I would rather have something original.

I'm about the same. I grew up never watching a Halloween movie and the only one they ever showed on TV, back before they showed relatively new movies on TV, was the third one. I tried watching it so many times but never finished it. I watched it a few years ago and found it to be decent.

I also watched the TV edit of the first Halloween movie and liked it. On the other hand, I bought the box set and watched the first one, the regular version, with my wife and didn't like it nearly as much as the TV edit. I was really disappointed.

Besides the first and third movie, everything else is just a blur. I remember one of the newer ones had the girl in the clown costume at the end and I also remember their being rappers in at least one of them.

I grew up with Freddy and Jason, so I always liked them. Being more into monster movies, a guy in a mask wasn't what I was looking for.

Fair enough. But not everyone is looking for something original. That's why there are so many people who are upset with remakes. These films have a fan following. There are even people out there that like Halloween Resurrection! When it comes to horror especially slasher films, sticking to the original formula is usually the best way to go. Look at Friday the 13th when they chose to simply replace Jason with someone who dressed like him, people lost their minds (me included) and I consider that film one of the worst in the series. Changing formula in slasher films is usually a no no.

Oh, no. The cat's out of the bag.

As a big fan of just the first two Haloween films, I'm sort of embarrassed to say that I don't own this. However, I heard that too much of it deals with the awful sequels.

Is this the case? I've been thinking about grabbing it, but I noticed that ebay lists it as having full screen and widescreen formats? Is that true? I thought it was a standard release?

Also, it had a slipcover, right? And the comic is inside the packaging...like a mini-comic? I don't wanna get hosed.

I couldn't have said it better. I can appreciate III for what it was, but 4 and up are just terrible. I went after the Producer's Cut of 6 just to see the differences.

It's not the approved version. The THX transfer is the approved one; this one appears on either the one disc edition or the two-disc Limited Edition.

Well yes, they do spend plenty of time on the sequels, but seeing as how it's a documentary covering the entire series up to that point (not mentioning RZ's remake, since they were planning Halloween 9 at that time), it's to be expected. With that said, I'm not huge on the sequels (I own 2, 4, and the remake, but don't consider any of them to be better than mediocre), but enjoyed the doc quite a bit.

The documentary is full frame. It was released with a slipcover, and the mini-comic is inside the case.

Anyway, seeing as how others have already, I'll go ahead and list which movies I own in the series...

Halloween (1978): 2-Disc Limited Edition (Anchor Bay)
Halloween (1978): 2-Disc 25th Anniversary Divimax Edition (Anchor Bay)
Halloween (1978) (Blu-Ray) (Anchor Bay)
Halloween II (Universal)
Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers: Divimax Edition (Anchor Bay)
Halloween: 25 Years Of Terror: 2-Disc Special Edition (Anchor Bay)
Halloween (2007): 2-Disc Unrated Collector's Edition (Blu-Ray) (Dimension)

Looks like Halloween 6, H20 and Ressurrection are coming out in Canada on Blu-ray from Alliance next week as well!

Sure, when you put it that way it doesn't make sense

Jason was more of a freak than Mike, which was just a normal dude with a Halloween mask. I know about the entity thing but that was just something never seen that was used to explain away things.

My Halloween collection is complete.

Halloween: 30th Anniversary Commemorative Set
- Halloween (1978) - Limited Edition (Discs 1 and 2)
- Halloween (1978) [Blu-Ray]
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) - Divimax Special Edition
- Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) - Divimax Special Edition
- Halloween (1978) - 25th Anniversary Edition Disc 2 (replaced Disc 1 of 25 Years of Terror and gave altered 25th Anniversary Edition to a friend who didn't mind).
Halloween II (1981)/Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) - Double Feature
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers [Producer's Cut] (1995) (user on the Bloody-Disgusting boards was nice enough to burn a copy and mail it to me for free)
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998) - Collector's Series
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Halloween (2007) - Two-Disc Special Edition
Halloween [Unrated Director's Cut] (2007)
- Best Buy Exclusive Lenticular Slipcover
- Hot Topic Exclusive Rob Zombie Autographed Cover Insert
- Circuit City Exclusive Bonus Disc
Halloween [Unrated Director's Cut] (2007) - 2-Disc Collector's Edition [Blu-Ray]
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006)

^ That's not everything, but just everything that you personally want, right?

Is this your clever way of telling us that you are not going to buy Halloween II next week?

Here's my collection

Halloween: 2 Disc 25th Anniversary Edition DVD
Halloween: Extended Edition DVD
Halloween: The Criterion Collection Laserdisc
Halloween Blu-Ray
Halloween: 2 Tape Limited Edition VHS
Halloween II (Universal Release) DVD
Halloween II: The "Ultimate" Cut (Basically the TV version & the theatrical version edited together) DVD-R
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Universal Release) DVD
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers -Divimax Special Edition- DVD
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers -Divimax Special Edition- DVD
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Official Release) DVD
Halloween 6: The Producer's Cut DVD-R
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later -Collector's Series- DVD
Halloween: Resurrection DVD
Halloween (2007) -Unrated Director's Cut- Blu-Ray
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror DVD

Halloween (1978) Limited Edition 2-Disc from 1999
Halloween (1978) Divimax 25th Anniversary 2-Disc from 2003
Halloween (1978) Blu-ray Disc released 2007
Halloween II (1981) Universal release from 2001
Halloween II (1981) The "Ultimate" Cut DVD-R (theatrical/TV fusion)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) Divimax released 2006
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) Divimax released 2006
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) Dimension non-anamorphic release from 2000
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) Producer's Cut 5-Disc DVD-R set 16x9/anamorphic (Producer's cut, Director's cut, Rough cut, Television cut, extras disc)
Halloween 7: Twenty Years Later (H20) (1998) Dimension non-anamorphic release from 1999
Halloween 8: Resurrection (2002) Dimension release from 2002
Halloween (2007) Theatrical Cut 2-Disc 2007
Halloween (2007) Unrated Director's Cut 2-Disc 2007
Halloween (2007) workprint DVD-R
Halloween (2007) Unrated Collector's Edition (Director's cut plus 4.5 hour documentary) 3-Disc 2008
Halloween (2007) Blu-ray Disc Unrated Collector's Edition (Director's cut plus 4.5 hour documentary) 2-Disc 2008
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror 2-Disc from 2006

It's all the movies and all the accompanying bonus features, AFAIK. I don't have things like, say, the Halloween 4 tin, but I wouldn't be getting any content out of it, just the packaging. The only thing I'd be missing is the Blockbuster Exclusive DVD of Halloween. And no, to the poster who asked, I will be picking up Halloween II at some point, because I was one of the few who thought it was good.