Mama mia! It felt like just yesterday I was stumbling across HoopTober 4.0 during my first proper year on Letterboxd and falling in love with the challenge! As always, all first time watches. Will mark auxiliary adds as "bonus." Admittedly, some solid crossover here between HoopTober and the Kynky HORRORx52 challenge, but didn't go overboard with crossover. Tried to keep a fairly balanced selection of deep cuts, missed classics, decades, franchise grinding, underrated gems, etc. As tends to be the case, was very '80s heavy. Appreciated the increased focus on more diverse creatives, and LOVED the concept of picking films based on make-up artists. As of last year, would echo the sentiments again that this is a challenge... I think…
List by Thomas S
Hooptober 6/6/6 (Ranked)
Mama mia! It felt like just yesterday I was stumbling across HoopTober 4.0 during my first proper year on Letterboxd and falling in love with the challenge! As always, all first time watches. Will mark auxiliary adds as "bonus." Admittedly, some solid crossover here between HoopTober and the Kynky HORRORx52 challenge, but didn't go overboard with crossover. Tried to keep a fairly balanced selection of deep cuts, missed classics, decades, franchise grinding, underrated gems, etc. As tends to be the case, was very '80s heavy. Appreciated the increased focus on more diverse creatives, and LOVED the concept of picking films based on make-up artists. As of last year, would echo the sentiments again that this is a challenge... I think more parameters excluding output from '80s and '90s white men would still be fun and would push us into further and weirder corners of world cinema! Anyway, as always all respect goes to Cinemonster and the original 6/6/6 list.
Rules:
Six Countries:
Canada
Denmark
France
Italy
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
South Korea
United Kingdom
United States
Six decades:
'20s
'30s
'40s
'50s
'60s
'70s
'80s
'90s
'00s
'10s
Six films from before 1966:
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)
THE MUMMY (1932)
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936)
BLACK FRIDAY (1940)
THE BAD SEED (1956)
A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959)
THE BRAINIAC (1961)
Six films whose year ends in "6":
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936)
THE BAD SEED (1956)
THE OMEN (1976)
INVADERS FROM MARS (1986)
THE FRIGHTENERS (1996)
SNOOP DOGG'S HOOD OF HORROR (2006)
THE NEON DEMON (2016)
Six films featuring work from the following:
John Carl Buechler - FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VII: THE NEW BLOOD
Jack Pierce - THE MUMMY
Rob Bottin - THE FOG
Screaming Mad George - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM WARRIORS
Lon Chaney - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Carlo Rambaldi - DEEP RED
The sixth film from a franchise:
FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES
One reptile rampage film as a tribute to CRAWL:
ANACONDA
Two women directed films:
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT
SNOOP DOGG'S HOOD OF HORROR
The lowest rated film from the '80s that you can access:
HOBGOBLINS
One film where the men and women of the church are having a bad day:
THE DEVILS
One Larry Cohen or Dick Miller film:
Larry Cohen - IT'S ALIVE
Dick Miller - A BUCKET OF BLOOD
One classic Universal:
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER
One film with Dee Wallace in it:
THE FRIGHTENERS
One film with a black director or predominantly black cast (NO JORDAN PEELE):
CANDYMAN
SNOOP DOGG'S HOOD OF HORROR
One film from a Mexican director to honor two great films from Gigi Saul Guerrero and Issa Lopez (NO GDT, but it can be GSG or Issa):
THE BRAINIAC
And one Tobe Hooper film (there must ALWAYS be a Tobe Hooper Film):
INVADERS FROM MARS
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: Watch HORROR NOIRE and INNOCENT BLOOD***
