The Brood (1979)

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

From memory:  Although this is a more mainstream work for Cronenberg with an unusual, but generally incredulous plot, it is still an effective shocker and shows its director's signature, especially in the over-the-top finale.

Halliwell (no star): "Idiotic and repellent shocker."

Maltin BOMB: "Eggar eats her own afterbirth while midget clones beat grandparents and lovely young schoolteachers to death with mallets. It's a big, wide, wonderful world we live in!"

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

A mute servant girl bears a child on Christmas day after being raped by a bestial madman and first shows itself at the infant's christening, whereupon the holy water begins to boil.

Fanny Hill (1983)

Happily engaged to her handsome fiance Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another.

This adaptation of John Cleland's erotic classic is indeed frivolous with lots of nudity and sex scenes, but just as well quite boring.

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

The Devils (1971)

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu, but hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

Over-the-top blasphemous and deliberately in bad taste, this infamous movie seems likewise as possessed and fevered as the hysteria it depicts.

Halliwell**: "Despite undeniable technical proficiency this is its writer-director's most outrageously sick film to date, campy, idiosyncratic and in howling bad taste from beginning to end, full of worm-eaten skulls, masturbating nuns, gibbering courtiers, plague sores, rats and a burning to death before our very eyes...plus a sacrilegious dream of Jesus."

Maltin**1/2: "Fine performances save confused mixture of history, comedy, and surrealism...A mad movie, with fiery finale not for the squeamish."

Captain Clegg (1962)

The Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in a certain locale, and they send a captain and his crew to check it out.