It's almost Halloween again! Time is flying. And I'm flying, too! I'm going to Fantastic Fest this year, which is 8 days (September 19th-26th) right at the beginning of the annual Hooptober challenge. It's an adventure I'm very excited for, but given how close I cut it with this challenge every year, I'm not sure if I'll make it through this time. I'm sure I will see plenty of horror movies there, but most of the fun of this challenge for me is to look back and discover things I've missed, so I won't apply any Fantastic Fest choices to this challenge.
At least not the main requirements. I have 6 wildcard spaces at the end filled with movies I've been meaning to watch, but if I end up pressed for time...we'll see!
The rules are, as always, 31 horror films (plus two more for extra credit) from September 15th to October 31st. And a big thanks to Cinemonster for putting it together again. His list kicking it all off is HERE.
6 countries: Germany - Hagazussa
France - Diabolique
Italy - Your Vice Is A Locked Room and only I Have the Key
Japan - One Cut of the Dead
South Korea - The Wailing
Norway - Thelma
6 decades: 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 10s
6 films from before 1966: The Wolf Man (41), She Wolf of London (46), Diabolique (55), Night of the Hunter (55), The Bad Seed (56), The Innocents (61), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (62)
6 films whose year ends in '6': The Bad Seed (56), Alice Sweet Alice (76), From Beyond (86), Invaders From Mars (86), The Wailing (2016), I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In the House (2016)
6 films featuring work from the following: John Carl Buechler,
Jack Pierce, Rob Bottin, Screaming Mad George, Lon Chaney
and Carlo Rambaldi: The Wolf Man (Pierce), The Howling, Humanoids From the Deep (Bottin), From Beyond (Buechler), Society, Bride of Re-Animator (George)
The 6th film of a franchise: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1 Reptile Rampage film as tribute to Crawl: Q
2 women directed films: Slumber Party Massacre II, Honeymoon
The lowest rated film from the 80s that you can access: Jason Takes Manhatten
1 film where the men and women of the church are having a bad day: Alice, Sweet Alice
1 Larry Cohen or Dick Miller film: Q
1 Classic Universal: The Wolf Man
1 film with Dee Wallace in it: The Howling
1 film with a black director or predominantly black cast. (NO JORDAN PEELE): Sweetheart
1 film from a Mexican director to honor 2 great films from Gigi Saul Guerrero & Issa López. (NO GDT, but it can be GSG or Issa): Tigers Are Not Afraid
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film: Invaders From Mars
EXTRA CREDIT: Horror Noire and Innocent Blood - I've already seen Horror Noire so I'm substituting it with Candyman, which was mentioned on the doc and I still haven't seen.
And a self-imposed rule, FIRST TIME WATCHES ONLY!