"I'm Smart…and I'm Your Friend"

In honor of Halloween—and in deference to the fact that I gotta split early today for trick-or-treating—I'm once again paying homage to the cinematic evildoer who caused me countless childhood nightmares: undead utopian cult leader Reverend Henry Kane. I dare you to come up with a more terrifying horror-flick villain—the man oozes menace out of every scaly pore. Kind of awesome to know that the actor behind the character, Julian Beck, was a New York theater nerd who was pals with Allen Ginsberg.