Hooptober 5.0 Rules and Regulations
Prior 31 Days of Horror/Hooptober Lists: 2015 / 2016 / 2017
I will rate and review all of the following horror films on my website 30Hz Rumble.
I always have a healthy stable of unwatched horror films at my disposal because I end up buying all year and awaiting my September/October binge. It's not a healthy moviewatching model but it works. I always try to include as many first-time watches as possible, but old favorites always find a way into the mix. Others get pushed back to next year. I'm pretty sure I've had Medousa (1998) on every list for the last three years. So that's just my caveat to suggest that substitutions will happen.…
Hooptober 5.0 Rules and Regulations
Prior 31 Days of Horror/Hooptober Lists: 2015 / 2016 / 2017
I will rate and review all of the following horror films on my website 30Hz Rumble.
I always have a healthy stable of unwatched horror films at my disposal because I end up buying all year and awaiting my September/October binge. It's not a healthy moviewatching model but it works. I always try to include as many first-time watches as possible, but old favorites always find a way into the mix. Others get pushed back to next year. I'm pretty sure I've had Medousa (1998) on every list for the last three years. So that's just my caveat to suggest that substitutions will happen. Frequently.
Here are Cinemonster's Hooptober 5.0 Guidelines and I'm proud to believe that he finally watched YOUR VICE... this year because of me.
// 10+ 'Anniversary Films' --
The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Doll, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Dracula, In the Castle of Bloody Desires, Inquisition, The Bloodstained Shadow, The Swarm, Maniac Cop, Deep Rising, Medousa, Death Rides Out
// 6 countries
USA, UK, Greece, France, Germany, Spain, Italy
// 6 decades
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
// 6 films from before 1970
Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Doll, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Dracula, Hounds of the Baskervilles, In the Castle of Bloody Desires, Death Rides Out
// 6 films from the following: Romero, Cronenberg, Clive Barker, Terence Fisher, Sergio Martino, Bill Lustig (mix-and-match, or all one)
Scanners (Cronenberg), Dracula (Fisher), Death Rides Out (Fisher), Hound of the Baskervilles (Fisher), Maniac Cop (Lustig),
// 2 flying things that kill you films
The Mist, The Swarm
// 1 silent film as a tribute to A Quiet Place
The Fall of the House of Usher, Phantom Carriage
// 1 aquatic menace film as a tribute to Meg
Alligator, Deep Rising
// 2 women directed films
Messiah of Evil, Blood Diner
// 1 inanimate object comes alive film
The Hearse, Chopping Mall
// 1 film with Barbara Crampton in it
Chopping Mall
// 2 Tobe Hooper Films
The Funhouse, The Dark
