Especially in the glorious Seventies, filmmakers would have us think that there is not a single public place you can go to or stranger you can befriend (or who wants to befriend you, devious cackle) without being kidnapped, brainwashed, and/or sacrificed to the devil by Evil Cultists.

Below is a handy guide for recognizing The Cult Danger in all its hideously crafty permutations.

1. All small towns, especially in the South, are inhabited by Evil Cultists.

2. Anyone who starts a conversation with you first is an Evil Cultist.

3. Anyone who invites you to a meeting or a weekend get-together in the first 5 minutes of conversation is an Evil Cultist.

4. Cultsist are always The Last Person You'd Suspect. That guy waving an axe and an upside-down pentagram on the street corner-Not a Cultist. Clergypeople, especially angelic-looking women and children, polite college guys, and helpful old people-Big Time Evil Cultist.

5. Anyone the slightest bit interested in spirituality, especially if it lies beyond mainstream American Judeo-Christianity, is an Evil Cultist.

6. All people from a country other than the US, living in the US, are Evil Cultists.

7. All completely bald people are evil cultists.