>A Nightmare On Elm Street:
I've seen all of these.
The first is a classic and is as you've stated.
The second is jacked up for a number of reasons, the main piece being that Robert Englund isn't playing Freddy for half of the film. It completely obscures the rules created in the first one, and is really strange follow up, but has one of the scariest scenes in the entire franchise at the pool.
The 3rd is simply a gem. A really good story with a great cast and creative death scenes. It doesn't hurt that a young Patricia Arquette and my guy Kincaid are holding the young cast together. Excellent film
4th film was doomed before it starts as they couldn't get Patricia Arquette back and starts the film off the wrong way. This is the beginning of the turn for this franchise. Where Freddy goes from straight sadistic killer to funnyman. He's still meanspirited, but but there's so much humor in some of these films moving forward you lose the fear of going to sleep that you have early in the franchise.
The new Nightmare is an incredible film, I don't love Freddy's make-up at the end of the film, but the blending between real world and movie world and the meta take on it are soo good. As you stated early this sets the stage for Scream.
Freddy Vs Jason is fun, it was Directed by Ronny Yu, so it has a lot of those Chinese aesthetics woven through the film. The way people fly through the air and some of the absurdity. Still fun, and the fake Jay and Silent Bob call backs with Monica Keena being the one to actually take folks out was a bit strange, but again it was enjoyable.
The remake was meanspirited, and added some really nice elements. The thing that I say a lot, I say it on the shows when we cover it, they missed a REALLY big opportunity in that they could've made Fred Kreuger innocent. I can only imagine if he didn't actually do it. That would've turned the entire franchise on its ear and we play that out some in one of our episodes when we talk about What would get out the room do. Jackie Earl Haley was actually a really good Freddy Though. Would watch again.
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>Friday The 13th:
I've seen them all. The Jean Grey phoenix one and everything, i've seen them all. I have a few favorite scenes in this franchise, the way Jason breaks people around trees, or bashes them inside of sleeping bags was ground breaking to me. I still enjoy it tremendously. Dude became superman with a mask though. That takes me out of the films sometimes, but some of those films in the middle 4 and 5 are good, the 2nd is great actually. I honestly think 1-5 are really enjoyable.
The remake has the spirit of the later films where Jason is this unstoppable killing force. Opposed to a really motivated deranged dude. Still fun

>Halloween:
I agree with what you've got here. Season of the witch might be a horror classic regarded differently if it wasn't titled Halloween. Its a really good film, but folks thought MM was supposed to be in it so they didn't give it a chance. I'm not a huge Rob Zombie fan, as I think his films are too dark and the villains are really the heroes of his films. This one was no different.

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>The Omen:
Good films, none of them are on the level of the first though.

>Poltergeist:
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Really good stuff here. The young actress that plays Carolanne died after the 2nd film so that sort of shot them in the foot.

>Hellraiser:
>The films fall off after the 2nd, but are still really good visually.

>The Evil Dead:
>Bruce has embraced the silly (To steal from Russell) and it makes these films more enjoyable.

>Phantasm:
>I'm impressed you even brought this up. Fantastic stuff and the Tall man is still something that haunts me.
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>Saw:
>-The first is clever and really innovative, those thereafter start leaning and eventually go all the way to Torture porn. You CAN KEEP IT>
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>Alien:
There are horror films, they have jump scares, they have background scares, they are horror films that take place in space. 1 4 starts 2 3.5 stars, it falls off from there. I recently rewatched the 3rd and its better than I gave i credit for. It stays. Prometheus and the 2nd prequel do the entire franchise a disservice.