Since this is an opinion question, I’d have to say my personal favorite of the three would be A Nightmare on Elm Street. If you compare Friday the 13th to Halloween, the two antagonists are very similar characters. Here I’m talking about Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, and disregarding Jason’s mother who is the killer in the first Friday the 13th movie. Both are speechless psychopaths who slowly hunt down stupid teenagers (and adults on occasion) and grow more and more powerful through the series due to some supernatural causes. While I know that if I saw Jason or Michael in real life I would die of fright, from a moviegoers standpoint I don’t think that they are as interesting as Freddy Krueger. Here, Wes Craven took an entirely different approach to the horror genre and created a villian who, instead of being a silent menace, actively spoke to and verbally tormented his victims. This also allowed a good deal of dark humor to be present in the movies, which was always a plus for me.