Welcome library horror hounds!! Staff at the Olympia Timberland Library are once again participating in the annual HoopTober Challenge here on Letterboxd, hoping to help fuel your nightmares with a wide variety of horror movies this fall season. Starting September 15th, staff will be watching and reviewing 31 horror movies by the end of October! All of these movies are available to watch for free through your library, and we stand at the ready to offer additional suggestions (and help you find them) as desired.
Follow us here on Letterboxd to keep up with our reviews, and if you choose to take the HoopTober Challenge yourself, make sure to link to your list in the comments and TAG your reviews…
Welcome library horror hounds!! Staff at the Olympia Timberland Library are once again participating in the annual HoopTober Challenge here on Letterboxd, hoping to help fuel your nightmares with a wide variety of horror movies this fall season. Starting September 15th, staff will be watching and reviewing 31 horror movies by the end of October! All of these movies are available to watch for free through your library, and we stand at the ready to offer additional suggestions (and help you find them) as desired.
Follow us here on Letterboxd to keep up with our reviews, and if you choose to take the HoopTober Challenge yourself, make sure to link to your list in the comments and TAG your reviews with HoopTober6.0 so we can keep track of what we're watching. Be sure to link to your list over on Cinemonster's page as well, as they are the Frankenstein cursed with creating this particular monster every year.
Click "read notes" or the glasses icon if using the Letterboxd app to read our reviews and place holds or stream on Kanopy.
You can read our reviews from last year's HoopTober here.
Below are the criteria that must be filled. Let's have some fun...
QUICK EASY RULES:
6 countries
6 decades
6 films from before 1966
6 films whose year ends in '6'
6 films featuring work from the following: John Carl Buechler,
Jack Pierce, Rob Bottin, Screaming Mad George, Lon Chaney
and Carlo Rambaldi
The 6th film of a franchise
1 Reptile Rampage film as tribute to Crawl
2 women directed films
The lowest rated film from the 80s that you can access.
1 film where the men and women of the church are having a bad day.
1 Larry Cohen or Dick Miller film
1 Classic Universal
1 film with Dee Wallace in it.
1 film with a black director or predominantly black cast. (NO JORDAN PEELE)
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)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Horror Noire and Innocent Blood***
-review them all.(eek)
Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.
