❌ FAIL

Concluding thoughts: this was a cool experiment and forced me to make time for some horror movies I've been meaning to see forever and would have otherwise never watched. However, I took such a scattershot approach that I didn't get the most out of a lot of these movies. I personally like watching old movies in series under some sort of umbrella so I can contextualize them. One silent Japanese film against a 60s American B-movie doesn't have that same impact. A few life events and exhaustion made me sadly fail to even get 31 films. A big bummer.

# of films: 30
Average rating: 3 out of 5

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My very first attempt at Hooptober. Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. This is really hard to nail down. I'll keep trying to condense the list until it's a tidy 31 but still meets the criteria...

Defined by the rules set here.

7/10 'Anniversary Films' (Release years end in an 8, excluding 2018) ❌
● Saw V (2008)
● Halloween (1978)
● Halloween H20 (1998)
● Halloween 4 (1988)
● Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
● The Faculty (1998)
● Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Vampire's Kiss (1988)

5/6 countries ❌
● USA
● Canada
● UK
● Japan
- France
● Italy

6/6 decades ✅
● 2010s
● 2000s
● 1990s
● 1980s
● 1970s
● 1960s
● 1920s

5/6 films from before 1970 ❌
● The Invisible Man
● A Page of Madness
● Carnival of Souls
● Seconds
- Night of the Living Dead
● Village of the Damned

2/6 films from the following: Romero, Cronenberg, Clive Barker, Terence Fischer, Sergio Martino, Bill Lustig (mix-and-match, or all one) ❌
● Hellraiser II (Barker)
- Torso (Martino)
- Maniac (Lustig)
● The Fly (Cronenberg)
- The Crazies (Romero)
- Night of the Living Dead (Romero)

1/2 flying things that kill you films ❌
● Hellbound: Hellraiser II (flying doctor demon man)
- Goliath and the Vampires

1/1 silent film as a tribute to A Quiet Place ✅
● A Page of Madness

1/1 aquatic menace film as a tribute to Meg ✅
● The Faculty

1/2 women directed films ❌
- Let the Corpses Tan
● Slumber Party Massacre

1/1 inanimate object comes alive film ✅
● Killer Klowns from Outer Space - popcorn!

1/1 film with Barbara Crampton in it. ✅
● From Beyond

1/2 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) ❌
● Texas Chainsaw 2
- Poltergeist