Hoop-tober is now in its fourth year, the event was created by Letterboxd user Cinemonster, you can read his Hoop-tober 4.0 post and get filled in on the challenges entailed here: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/the-night-hooptober-came-home-hoop-tober/
This year I blew my 31 Days of Horror out of the water. 61 films in 31 days! Good lord, I do not have a life! Nah, I kid, of course I do, and it heavily involved watching horror movies this month! As you could imagine, in regards to the series of challenges involved with Hoop-tober, I accomplished them all in spades!
- 6 sequels - (11: Psycho II, Prom Night II, Insidious 3, TCM 2, Jason X, Friday the 13th parts 4 and 6, It's Alive II…
Hoop-tober is now in its fourth year, the event was created by Letterboxd user Cinemonster, you can read his Hoop-tober 4.0 post and get filled in on the challenges entailed here: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/the-night-hooptober-came-home-hoop-tober/
This year I blew my 31 Days of Horror out of the water. 61 films in 31 days! Good lord, I do not have a life! Nah, I kid, of course I do, and it heavily involved watching horror movies this month! As you could imagine, in regards to the series of challenges involved with Hoop-tober, I accomplished them all in spades!
- 6 sequels - (11: Psycho II, Prom Night II, Insidious 3, TCM 2, Jason X, Friday the 13th parts 4 and 6, It's Alive II and III, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, and Halloween III)
- 6 countries - (12: USA, UK, Italy, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Germany)
- 6 decades - (8: 40s-2010s)
- 6 films from before 1970 - (9: Cat People, I Bury the Living, Paranoiac, Nightmare, Strangers on a Train, The Cremator, NOTLD, Genocide)
- 6 films from the following: Carpenter, Raimi, Whale, Browning, Craven, and Tom Holland, mix-and-match, or all one - (Psycho II, Scream for Help, The Thing, Ghosts of Mars, Shocker, Halloween)
- 3 people eating people (non-zombie) - (4: TCM, TCM2, Raw, We Are What We Are)
- 1 Hammer Film - (2: Paranoiac, Nightmare)
- 1 Romero Dead film - (NOTLD)
- 1 terrible oversight - (from the list provided, I chose The Cremator)
And 2 Tobe Hooper Films - (TCM, TCM2)
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Of the 61 films watched, 33 were first time viewings. Of those 33, these were my 10 favorites: Prom Night II, Scream for Help, Strangers on a Train, The Day of the Beast, Anguish, Frankenhooker, Amsterdamned, Body Count, The Cremator, and Angst.
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Check out my Hoop-tober 2.0 here: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-20-october-2015/
Hoop-tober 3.0 here: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-30-october-2016/
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
HAPPY HOOP-TOBER!
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