The Two Best Halloween Sequels Finally Return to Streaming (And They're on the Same Service)

While there’s never exactly a bad time of year to watch horror movies, the months of September and October definitely stand out as the best part of the year for the genre. The two months leading to Halloween are called Spooky Season for a reason, and horror movie fans often take the opportunity to discover scary new hits, revisit iconic favorites from the past, or work their way through any number of long-running horror franchises. One of the most prominent rewatch marathons throughout the season is, of course, Halloween, the slasher franchise centered on Michael Myers, and the two best sequels from that series just returned to streaming.

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Peacock added an army of horror films on September 1st, including the first two sequels in the Halloween franchise. The streamer’s lineup at the start of the month added 1981’s Halloween II and 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. For anyone trying to binge through the Halloween films before October 31st, your mission just got a lot easier to accomplish.

The Best Halloween Sequels

Horror master John Carpenter’s original Halloween is in a league of its own when it comes to this franchise, with none of the sequels over the last five decades coming close to reaching the same heights. Overall, the Halloween franchise is largely known for producing bad movies after the arrival of the 1980s. However, those first two sequels still stand out to many as being the best of the bunch, with Season of the Witch actually getting more favorable with fans over time.

Halloween II is about as straight-forward a Halloween sequel as you’d expect, with Michael Myers picking up after the cliffhanger from the first movie and continuing to chase Jamie Lee Curtis’ iconic Final Girl, Laurie Strode. It’s not as scary or well-executed as Carpenter’s movie, but Halloween II does enough to get the job done. The continuity is what a lot of fans appreciate with this one.

Then there’s Halloween III, which has become beloved for the exact opposite reason. When it was first released in 1982, Halloween III: Season of the Witch was hated by a large portion of the fan base because, despite its title, the film had nothing to do with Michael Myers or Laurie Strode. This was an experiment in turning Halloween into more of anthology franchise, with sequels exploring haunting new tales from All Hallows Eve. The idea landed with a thud, especially after the first two Halloween films told one continuous story.

Removed from the disappointment and confusion of a Michael-less Halloween, horror fans have grown to adore Season of the Witch over the last 40 years. It’s an immensely fun movie with surprising twists, eerie imagery, and fantastic effects. You’ll find a huge number of Halloween fans nowadays that believe Halloween III is undoubtedly the best sequel of the bunch.

New Movies Streaming on Peacock

Halloween II and Halloween III: Season of the Witch are just two of the slew of new additions that hit Peacock on September 1st. That lineup featured several other horror standouts, including The Birds, The Mummy, The Thing, The Sixth Sense, and You’re Next.

You can check out the full list of Peacock’s September 1st additions below!

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2012
21 Jump Street
22 Jump Street
3:10 To Yuma
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Almost Famous
American Made
Amityville 3-D
Amityville II: The Possession
Amityville Moon
Amityville: The Awakening
The Amityville Harvest
The Amityville Uprising
The Angry Birds Movie
Bad Boys
Bad Boys II
Billy Madison
The Birds
The Breakfast Club
Bride of Chucky
Candyman III
Carlos
Child’s Play (2019)
Child’s Play 2
Child’s Play 3
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
Colombiana
Coming To America
The Craft: Legacy
The Creature Walks Among Us
Cult of Chucky
Curse of Chucky
Definitely, Maybe
Devil
Django Unchained
Downton Abbey
Drag Me To Hell
Firestarter
Flatliners (2017)
Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman
Goosebumps
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Hanna
The Hateful Eight
The Haunting In Connecticut
Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
Home
I, Frankenstein
Invincible
The Invisible Man’s Revenge
Just Go With It
Knock Knock
The Last Witch Hunter
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Leatherface
Lucy
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2 Armed And Fabulous
Mummies
The Mummy
The Mummy’s Ghost
October Sky
Phantasm II
Psycho
Puss In Boots
The Raven
The Replacements
Reservoir Dogs
Robin Hood
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
The Scorpion King
Scream 4
Seed of Chucky
Shrek
Shrek 2
Shek the Third
Sicario
The Sixth Sense
Son of Frankenstein
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight
Tales From the Hood
Ted
Ted 2
Terrifier 3
The Thing (1982)
The Thing (2011)
The Tillman Story
United 93
The Village
A Walk Among The Tombstones
Werewolf of London
When a Stranger Calls
World Trade Center
You’re Next
Zombieland