Chances are, you've never experienced avians as aggressive as these...

Mothers to be, be thankful that you've never suffered a case of morning sickness comparable to this one! If you can get past the obvious stigma of the position, it's probably quite an honor to be the Matron of Darkness, but does every facet of that role have to be so intrusive?

Stretching a tiny budget to its outside limit, Tobe Hooper shot one of the most influential horror B-movies of all time in the hottest month of a scorching Texan summer. Shorter on gore and longer on technique than most people recognized of it upon its release, this great, goofy, viciously insane movie is required viewing for '70s horror buffs.

That mischievous Satan gives adoption a bad name when a diplomat (played with usual stoic charm by Gregory Peck) unwittingly takes in Lucifer's spawn amid some rather compromising circumstances...

Juicy!

From an age when great horror films were abundant, this glossy murder mystery is as surprising as it is nostalgic.

Werner Herzog's remake is a deliberate, beautifully filmed chiller that makes fine use of Bruno Ganz and Klaus Kinski as heroic lover and supernatural parasite, respectively.

One of a string of great early John Carpenter films, this eerie, atmospheric schlock imparts an equally cozy and ominous milieu. It's a coastal ghost story that relates a sound (if unlikely) moral: don't loot your leprous neighbor's booty, matey.

Give the man a hand...quick!

Kiyoshi Kurosawa will probably never achieve greater international success than he did with 'Cure' ever again, but that it's one of his very best offerings is an adequate consolation. Serial murder by proxy proves to be far more effective and unsettling than the hands-on approach.

Tim Burton's adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" stars Johnny Depp as a fastidious, effeminate detective in pursuit of a murderous, decapitated apparition. If you're looking for a radical, visually beautiful take on the nineteenth-century short story, look no further.

While the path of righteousness is long and tedious, Lucifer afforded his more literate followers a shortcut...but only for the few who are sufficiently determined and clever enough to understand it! Two great performances by Johnny Depp and Frank Langella drive Roman Polanski's second take on devil worship.

For his fifth televised feature, Kiyoshi Kurosawa adapted 'Seance on a Wet Afternoon' and made it his unmistakable own.

If you're nostalgic for the '70s, this is the next best thing to having a flux capacitor at your disposal...