101 Dalmatians

If she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will. One of the most villainous cretans in movie history, Cruella De Vil scoops up English dalmatian puppies, and intends to skin them for fur coats. Thankfully, the stolen puppies are recovered, Cruella is left in ruins, and the puppies live out their days on a country estate. Proof positive that anything cute is cuter times 100. (The 1996 remake, starring Glenn Close as Cruella, however, was proof positive that what appears frightening in animated form comes off as just plain silly when converted to live action.)
Cujo

The Saint Bernard is generally regarded as one of the most loveable breeds on earth — who doesn’t love a big fluffy dog that revives ailing mountaineers with brandy from a miniature barrel? But in this movie, based on a Stephen King book of the same name, the Saint Bernard is a rabid killer named Cujo, who terrorizes an adulturous woman and her young son trapped in a car. King later said he was so inebriated on alcohol and cocaine at the time he penned Cujo, “that I barely remember writing.”

























