Forty years and 7 films. For a well known horror franchise, that's kind of on the light end. But, we should really be counting that from when the 2nd one came out. Making sequels to this sort of thing weren't thought of back in 1974. And with the end of the retrospective comes the wonderful ranking. This franchise only contains 2 terrible movies for me. So 5/7 isn't too bad. For the common observer though, I think its probably significantly less as a few are acquired tastes and/or grow on you over the years. But, no matter how bad it got, nothing will ever taint the original film. It stands large and tall over the remainder of this series, much like Halloween towers above the rest of its franchise. This series started off with one of the greatest horror (and low budget) films of all time. So, nothing that follows is likely to have that same impact. That doesn't mean there isn't fun to be had with these movies.
