I'm very excited to do this for the first time and be part of the fun after just having played catch up for a year with my Hoop year – the year I discovered Hoop-tober list. And as with that the actual list may look weird in relation to the below but I organized the list by the first challenge criteria that a movie met.
This is 100% subject to change, I don't know how you all decide on movies to watch so far in advance. [Update: it's changed a bit but not a lot from the original plan.]
10 'Anniversary Films' (Release years end in an 8, excluding 2018)
1. The Cavalier's Dream (1898)
2. House of Ghosts(1908)
3.…
I'm very excited to do this for the first time and be part of the fun after just having played catch up for a year with my Hoop year – the year I discovered Hoop-tober list. And as with that the actual list may look weird in relation to the below but I organized the list by the first challenge criteria that a movie met.
This is 100% subject to change, I don't know how you all decide on movies to watch so far in advance. [Update: it's changed a bit but not a lot from the original plan.]
10 'Anniversary Films' (Release years end in an 8, excluding 2018)
1. The Cavalier's Dream (1898)
2. House of Ghosts(1908)
3. The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
4. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
5. Behind Locked Doors (1948)
6. The Fly (1958)
7. Dracula (1958)
8. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
9. The Cremator (1968)
10. Halloween (1978)
11. Dead Ringers (1988)
12. The Vanishing (1988)
13. Phantasm II (1988) [unplanned addition]
14. Eden Lake (2008)
15. Twilight (2008) [unplanned addition]
6 countries
1. The Vanishing (Netherlands)
2. The Brood (Canada)
3. Evolution (France)
4. Eden Lake (UK)
5. The Cremator (Czechoslovakia)
6. Rodan (Japan)
6 decades
1. The Cavalier's Dream (1890s)
2. House of Ghosts(1900s)
3. The Eyes of the Mummy (1910s)
4. Fall of the House of Usher(1920s)
5. The Old Dark House (1930s)
6. Behind Locked Doors (1940s)
7. The Fly (1950s)
8. The Devil Rides Out (1960s)
9. Alien (1970s) [unplanned addition]
10. The Thing (1980s) [unplanned addition]
11. An American Werewolf in London (1980s) [unplanned addition]
12. The Craft(1990s) [unplanned addition]
13. The Silence of the Lambs (1990s) [unplanned addition]
14. Twilight (2000s) [unplanned addition]
15. It Follows (2010s) [unplanned addition]
16. Jigsaw (2010s) [unplanned addition]
17. Mom and Dad (2010s) [unplanned addition]
18. The Babysitter (2010s) [unplanned addition]
6 films from before 1970
1. The Cavalier's Dream (1898)
2. House of Ghosts(1908)
3. The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
4. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
5. The Old Dark House (1935)
6. The 7th Victim (1943)
7. The Flying Serpent (1946)
8. Behind Locked Doors (1948)
9. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
10. Rodan (1956)
11. The Fly (1958)
12. Dracula (1958)
13. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
14. The Cremator (1968)
6 films from the following: Romero, Cronenberg, Clive Barker, Terrence Fischer, Sergio Martino, Bill Lustig (mix-and-match, or all one)
1. Dracula (Fisher)
2. The Devil Rides Out (Fisher)
3. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
4. The Brood (Cronenberg)
5. Rabid (Cronenberg)
6. Shivers (Cronenberg)
2 flying things that kill you films
1. Rodan
2. The Flying Serpent
1 silent film as a tribute to A Quiet Place
1. The Cavalier's Dream
2. House of Ghosts
3. The Eyes of the Mummy
4. The Fall of the House of Usher
1 aquatic menace film as a tribute to Meg
The Shallows
2 women directed films
1. The Hitch-Hiker
2. Evolution
3. Twilight [unplanned addition]
1 inanimate object comes alive film
Puppetmaster
1 film with Barbara Crampton in it
Puppetmaster
2 Tobe Hooper Films
1. The Funhouse
2. Invaders from Mars