Best Halloween/fall feeling.
Captures the best Halloween feeling. By that I mean the feel of autumn, the look of a traditional Halloween street, you know leaves, decorations,pumpkins, people dressed up.
For me I always loved the looks of H4 and H6. Both to me captured the Halloween/fall vibe.
Perhaps a spicy take, but as somebody from rural/suburban Illinois, Halloween 6 goes A LONG way to look like an average October in suburban Illinois.
Around town comparisons:
Wow, I was totally thinking the same! H4 and H6 just have this vibe to them that’s very Fall/Halloween. Probably the reason why I like them so much despite their shortcomings.
H1 is awesome but there’s like hardly any decorations. H4 is the best
Absolutely 
Totally agree.
Halloween 6 is the most convoluted, nonsensical, mess of a movie. However it can’t be denied that it captures the look and feel of late October PERFECTLY. So based on that criteria alone, H6 did it perfect. I just wish it wasn’t such a mess of a movie.
H4 would be my runner up. That opening title sequence is probably my favorite in the franchise as far as the mood and atmosphere of Fall.
Keep in mind I’m more of an H1 purist, but I do have fun with the other films. With that said, I have no problem admitting that H4 and H6 nailed the atmosphere of fall and Halloween.
The new movies did well with decorating and getting that vibe going, but I didn’t feel it grab me like I did with H4 and H6. You can almost feel the crisp cool fall air just looking at those movies.
Im gonna jump in here and say 2018s one shot of Michael going house to house captures Halloween at sundown perfectly. Where I live the local historical neighborhood looks exactly like that street on Halloween night. Kids everywhere, home owners scaring them on the way up to the door. It has it all
First and foremost, I’m somewhat of an H1 purist. Let’s get that straight right away.
I see a lot of votes for H1. I’m thinking they aren’t reading through the first post to realize it’s about the best mood and atmosphere, not the best movie. Or maybe they are.
When talking about fall and Halloween atmosphere captured on film, it’s lacking. The story distracts from it very well though.
H6 is one of the most ridiculous films in this franchise, but manages to be one of the best at capturing Fall/Halloween on film.
Heck, I will go out on a limb and say H3 actually captures the mood and atmosphere of Halloween better than H1. H3 oozes Halloween atmosphere.
I might be an H1 purist, but I can admit other films captured the actual season of Fall/Halloween better. The stories might of been trash can worthy, but the imagery was spot on.
For Myers, H4 and H6 do it perfectly, H3 does it best in the way of it being a Halloween film
H6 was shot in autumn and flat out looks and feels it. They do almost everything right for this one.
H4 does a great job considering it was shot in early spring (which can at least look similar to autumn since a lot of trees would be missing leaves). They do almost everything they can to make it feel like Halloween given the budget and time of year it was shot.
H1,2,3 do a really good job with their limited budgets and technology and being shot in spring. Each one does something a little better than its’ sibling, but there was a good amount more that could have been done.
H5’s nighttime sequences do a solid job (even though the streets have sparse trick or treaters), but the daytime is often too bright (I know the director wanted a contrast with the night, but it just looks and feels like spring. I do like the scene at the decorated liquor store during the day, it presents a good autumn feel. It’s ahead of H:20 and Resurrection, but behind the rest.
H:20 just doesn’t do a good job at all, the new UHD may help a little, but there’s only so much they can do when the movie is bereft of almost anything Halloween related save for some decorations at the town square where the restaurant is.
Resurrection does a better job than H:20, they have a trick or treater scene, a Halloween party, and some decorations here and there, but it’s only better than H:20, but maybe the new UHD will surprise me.
RZH1 does a really solid job, not as good as its’ sequel, but I’d say it’s a little step ahead of Halloween’s 1-3, they tried to do some color correction to make the tries look more autumnal and less spring-like an they paid attention to decorations and such as well. The town feels a bit more alive with Halloween.
RZH2 is right with H4 and H6 for presenting a real Halloween time feel. Trick or treaters could have been shown more, but then again none of the paths of the characters took them near where trick or treaters would be save for that one scene with Michael.
2018 and Kills do a really solid job as well. I’d put them probably around RZH1 maybe even a little ahead, I’d have to watch them again to really get a hold of their placements as I’ve seen them the least.
Halloween 6.
Halloween 6 hands down for me. It’s also my favorite Halloween film in general.
Were decorations even a thing back in the 70s… i think Carpenter likely depicted the times accurately, with fancy dress and Jack O lanterns.
As a child of that era…yeah they definitely were! 
I agree with you100% though. He did capture the feeling even without them!
I agree he did capture very well with so little of decorating.
These images speak for themselves Davy. Its about as pure Midwest October as you can get.
I’m an H1 geek and I think H6 is a trainwreck of a movie, but it’s one saving grace is the presentation of Fall on film. Take the movies out of it and just observe the images, H6 wins hands down.
Awesome shots of our home state as always Davy. Heading down to Clinton towards the end of the month for their Fall festival 
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4 & 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAA-xbhMuBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCkeW1mgRho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZzbdjnWer4
Got done rewatching Zombie’s two films, the two Blumhouse films, and skimmed through the new UHD’s of H:20 and Resurrection (as well as bothversions of 6), so I have a better perspective now.
H4, H6 (both versions), Zombie H1, Zombie H2, and Kills, as well as the nighttime scenes (and the liquor store daytime scene) in 5, and the opening of H:20 all do a great job of both giving off an October autumnal vibe while also presenting the Halloweentime holiday feeling. H6 though is the king of this category. Halloween 4 being shot in early spring gives off a similar vibe to autumn, they are similar seasons, just played out in reverse, the movie does everything else right that it could. H4’s opening was as close as springtime will ever feel to October. RZH1 with its’ larger budget was able to do more with making it feel like autumn, they even had digital color correction of a bunch of the greenery. RZH2 was shot in early spring and late winter in mostly Georgia (some shooting in western Connecticut), so it had the sparse leaves on the trees while not being as bare as further north, and had that cooler autumn air feeling. Kills, much like H6, was shot in autumn, just in a place further from the midwestern feel (in North Carolina, though the southern tip of NC) than H6’s Utah (even though NC is physically closer to Illinois and the midwest and mid-south area). There is plenty to criticize Kills for, but they get the autumn and Halloween feeling quite right.
Halloween (the original), Halloween 2 (also the original), and Halloween 3 also are contenders but the original Halloween has some budget and seasonal constraints so it doesn’t have as full a feeling as the entries above it. Halloween 3 mainly suffers from the spring greenery and overall more springtime feeling than H1- which has more of that slightly overcast autumn look despite being shot in spring; it has the Halloweentime feeling, even if decorations could have popped up more (the early 80’s weren’t as decoration heavy as today, but you still saw them and I feel that more people had at least something up compared to nowadays, at least in my area (this is more so an issue with some shots in the trick or treating montage). Halloween 2 gets the overall Halloween at night feeling quite well, but again you can tell it was shot in spring even by how the light from the lighting travels at night.
H:40 I feel is in a level more so with Halloween 5 (overall), it never has the highs of H5’s feeling though. The orange lighting that bathes everything didn’t help (fine sometimes, not so much when it’s everywhere). H5 again suffers from overly bright and springtimey daytime scenes.
Resurrection is a little above H:20, it is more consistent throughout, but never has anything close to the feeling of H:20’s opening.
If I had to make a list it’d be something akin to this…
-H6
-H4, RZH1, RZH2, Kills.
-H1, H2, H3.
-H5, H:40.
-Resurrection.
-H:20.*