It's that time of the year again where cinemonster kicks my butt. He refuses to recognise this (I think it must be bigotry; ugly anti-Lawrence sentiment), but I have taken part in every Hooptober so far, and failed 50% of the time to complete the challenge. I'm expecting my available movie watching time to be much more limited in September and October, so odds aren't good that I'll complete this, but I'll give it my best shot.

For the first year ever, I've re-picked some titles from last year as I've still not watched them. I've also taken "watch films from Clive Barker" to mean "watch films from the Clive Barker universe". As ever, these are all first viewings; that said, if Spontaneous Combustion gets removed from Amazon Prime before I get to it, I'll do a rewatch of Lifeforce instead. Other than that, the list is hopefully set and won't change.

The master list is here, with the criteria: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-cinco-your-terror-is-a-locked-room/

Thanks as ever to El Jefe for putting together this annual tradition, and raise a glass with me to the fallen horror icons.