It just wouldn't be Halloween without some scary flicks to go with your popcorn balls and candy corn. No, don't just rent 'Pulse' or 'The Ring 2'... here are some suggestions for a fun night of creepy entertainment with some movies you probably won't see on Cinemax's Spooktacular Night of Blah-Blah Thrills.

Vampires - Rabid Not a traditional fangs 'n crucifixes kind of affair. David Cronenberg's typically chilly, clinical approach gives an air of sleazy respectability to this ridiculous-sounding story, in which a skin graft gone wrong turns former porn starlet Marylin Chambers into a sort of plague-spreading pseudo-vampire who sucks blood through a penis-like mutation in her armpit.

Ghosts - The Devil's Backbone A thematic companion film to 'Pan's Labyrinth', Guillermo del Toro's atmospheric ghost story is set in a bomb-riddled orphanage during the fallout of the bloody Spanish Civil War, circa 1939. Though it's ultimately more about the horrors that the living inflict upon each other, del Toro still dishes up some remarkably frightening supernatural shocks along the way.

Werewolves - The Company of Wolves One of the strangest werewolf movies ever made, and also one of the most visually sumptuous. Neil Jordan and Angela Carter's neo-Freudian fairy tale is a haunting fever dream that deals directly with the carnal nature of lycanthropy. It’s bloody, erotic and dripping with fantastical imagery.

Frankenstein - Flesh for Frankenstein Originally rated X on its 1974 release, Paul Morrissey's jaw-dropping take on Mary Shelley's classic novel features fountains of gore, pulsing viscera, full-frontal nudity, and Udo Kier in one of his best roles ever. Conceived more as a snarky satire than a true horror flick, this is a bizarre hybrid of gorgeous cinematography, over-the-top violence and deliberately, hysterically awful dialogue. Just try not to laugh out loud at the “To know death, Otto...” line.

Mummies - The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy If ever there was a case of truth in advertising, this 1957 film is it. 'See the relentless machine battle the gruesome corpse!' screamed the tagline. A mad scientist who looks kind of like Orson Welles builds a lumbering robot (out of cardboard, aluminum siding and a dead Mexican, apparently) and pitches it in battle against a grunting Aztec mummy that kind of resembles Leatherface if you freeze-dried him. The stiff English dubbing makes this even funnier.

Monsters - The Great Yokai War In traditional Japanese folklore there are hundreds of kinds of supernatural creatures (yokai), and it seems like most of them make appearances in Takashi Miike's gloriously strange action/horror/fantasy children's movie. Snake-headed ladies, hopping corpses, turtle men and paper lantern ghosts are just a few of the monsters on display here, but you may find yourself more scared of whip-wielding Chiaki ('Kill Bill's Gogo Yubari) Kuriyama as a vicious sprite who enjoys abusing cute little animals.

Zombies - Dead and Buried Director Gary Sherman originally wanted this creepy tale of the undead in a seemingly peaceful Rhode Island seaside town to be a dark comedy, but supposedly his producers forced him to tone down the humor while playing up the story's vicious murders. It may not be what Sherman had intended, but as it stands, this paranoid, fog-drenched mystery is tense, gory and squirm-inducingly cruel.

Demons - The Church For those who believe Halloween to be the Devil's holiday, here's a heaping spoonful of delicious blasphemy. Stylishly filmed by Michele Soavi, who's worked as assistant director for the likes of Terry Gilliam, this Italian flick is surprisingly ambitious in scale for a story that features rampant demons, torture, decapitations, impalements, a bloody village massacre, and death by jackhammer. All this, plus you get to see a horny goat-headed lizard demon make sweet love to female lead Barbara Cupisti.