Chilltober Daze: Nature's Critters Strike Back (Part 1 -- Beast, The Birds, Cocaine Bear, Cujo, The Swarm and Willard)

Animals Gone Wild: The horror, the horror

“Someone’s knocking at the door, somebody’s ringing the bell,” Paul McCartney sang in “Let ‘Em In,” his not necessarily well-regarded Wings hit from 1976. “Do me a favor, open the door and let ‘em in.”

Not such a great idea if the unexpected visitor is one of nature’s own beasts, bent on vengeance due to some type of havoc visited on the critter or its n…