I'm a hot mess when it comes to handling horror, so yes, most of my choices are hopefully benign. *fingers crossed*
Hooptober 5.0 Master List
CRITERIA COVERED:
A Daughter of Destiny (1928), The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), The Man Who Laughs (1928), Blood of the Vampire (1958), The Crawling Eye (1958), Giant from the Unknown (1958), The Devil Rides Out (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Grapes of Death (1978), Dead Ringers (1988)
Angola (Rubber), Canada (The Brood, Dead Ringers, Scanners), Denmark (Haxan), France (Eyes Without a Face, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Grapes of Death, Rubber), Germany (A Daughter of Destiny, Faust), Italy (The Alligator, Eyes Without a Face, Screamers), Japan…
I'm a hot mess when it comes to handling horror, so yes, most of my choices are hopefully benign. *fingers crossed*
Hooptober 5.0 Master List
CRITERIA COVERED:
A Daughter of Destiny (1928), The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), The Man Who Laughs (1928), Blood of the Vampire (1958), The Crawling Eye (1958), Giant from the Unknown (1958), The Devil Rides Out (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Grapes of Death (1978), Dead Ringers (1988)
Angola (Rubber), Canada (The Brood, Dead Ringers, Scanners), Denmark (Haxan), France (Eyes Without a Face, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Grapes of Death, Rubber), Germany (A Daughter of Destiny, Faust), Italy (The Alligator, Eyes Without a Face, Screamers), Japan (A Page of Madness), Sweden (Haxan), UK (Blood of the Vampire, The Crawling Eye, The Devil Rides Out, The Ghoul), US (everything else)
1920s (7), 1930s (1), 1950s (6), 1960s (5), 1970s (5), 1980s (5), 1990s (1), 2010s (1)
19 films before 1970 actually
3 Cronenberg, 2 Sergio Martino, 1 George A Romero
The Bat & The Crawling Eye as flying things that can kill you (or here's hoping other films have something to that effect)
7 silent films
alligator in The Alligator, aquatic creatures in Screamers, and crocodile in Eaten Alive
Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker and Gloria Katz's Messiah of Evil
rubber tires come alive in Rubber
Chopping Mall with Barbara Crampton
Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive & Spontaneous Combustion
PROGRESS:
23/31
TOP FIVE:
O1) Carnival of Souls
O2) The Fall of the House of Usher
O3) The Brood
O4) Haxan
O5) Dead Ringers