It’s the best time of year to watch John Carpenter’s Halloween movies. Happily, all of them are available to watch on streaming services. Fittingly, there are 13 Halloween movies total, and while they’re all available on streaming, they’re not all available on the same platforms. The film that started it all came out in theaters on October 25, 1978. Set 15 years after murdering his sister, Judith, on Halloween night in 1963, Michael Myers (played by multiple actors in the first film) escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again. Jamie Lee Curtis followed in her mother’s (Psycho star Janet Leigh) horror footsteps with her role as Laurie Strode, a part she would reprise in future films in the franchise including the recent releases in 2018 and after. Six people played Michael Myers in the first Halloween, in which the character appeared at multiple ages.