FEATURE: Ranking the Halloween movies
By Stephen Pytak I run through this every year. It's a tradition, I suppose, something I enjoy about the season, the time when leaves turn brown and gold and the scariest night of the year is right around the corner. Ranking the series of films which followed John Carpenter's " Halloween (1978)" is kind of fun to do. And every fan of the franchise I suppose has a slightly different take. I don't think any of the films in the series match the power of the original. After I saw "John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)" on TV back in the day (I think it was in 1980 or 1981), I found myself checking the shadows as I crept up to bed. I was 9 or 10. A lot of things about the film stuck with me. For starters, it's a simple concept. A deranged man breaks out of an asylum, tears back to his hometown and steals a mask and some knives. The next day, on Halloween, he stalks three high school girls, tricks them with a few rounds of now you see me, now you don...