Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes) are a young couple living in a New York apartment building who are delighted by the news that Rosemary is pregnant. But strange physical changes, bizarre cravings, and the increasingly suspicious behavior of her husband and neighbors cannot begin to prepare her for the horrific truth about her baby. Ralph Bellamy, Sidney Blackmer, and Ruth Gordon co-star in writer/director Roman Polanski’s chilling adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel. 136 min. C/Rtg: R

Pet Sematary (1989)

Spirits moan among the tombstones as Stephen King adapts his own best-seller about a mysterious Indian burial ground with resurrective powers. After the graveyard brings the Creeds’ cat back from the dead, the family patriarch hopes it will do the same for his recently deceased son. But when the boy returns as a bloodthirsty murderer, it’s up to dad to stop his reign of terror. Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, and Fred Gwynne star. 103 min. C/Rtg: R

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)

Tim Burton brings Stephen Sondheim’s darkly funny Broadway musical to the screen, as sinister barber Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) forms an unholy alliance with meat pie maven Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), slicing his way through the necks of Victorian London’s gentry to save his long-lost daughter from the judge (Alan Rickman) who sent him to jail. With Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen; songs include "No Place Like London," "Johanna," "God, That’s Good!" 116 min. C/Rtg: R

Crawl (2019)

As Florida authorities were evacuating a small town ahead of a Category 5 hurricane, Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) was fighting to get in--trying to locate her unaccounted-for dad Dave (Barry Pepper). Making her way to his house, she finds him injured within an attic crawlspace...and, now, their survival is in question, both from the rising floodwaters and the hungry alligators trolling within. Alexandre Aja’s terrifying two-hander co-stars Ross Anderson, Anson Boon. 87 min. C/Rtg: R

Smile (2022)

It was a traumatic day for therapist Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) when a young patient (Caitlin Stasey) complaining of tormenting visions convulsed, flashed a ghastly grin--and killed herself. There'd be more to follow, as her investigations found a string of similarly bizarre and lethal incidents...and as she encounters sundry strangers with the same evil rictus, the more certain she is she'll be the next victim. Disquieting chiller also stars Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Kal Penn, Robyn Weigert. 115 min. C/Rtg: R