✅ SUCCESS

Concluding thoughts: This was a real challenge, and while I appreciated being forced to discover movies I likely would have never otherwise seen in my life, I also was denied the time to see some horror movies I was actually looking forward to watching. To be honest, I don't think I'll do this challenge next year, or I'll adapt it to my personal tastes. It made it a bit less fun to just throw on whatever I felt like and enjoy the horror fall season. I somehow managed to fit it all in, and even do a full marathon of the Nightmare on Elm St series!

# of films: 35
Timespan: Sept 12-Oct 31
Average rating: 3 out of 5

# My 2018 Hooptober
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Another year of Halloween. Based on Cinemonster's annual Halloween challenge. My second year taking this challenge, my previous failed attempt is here. My goal is less to hit each of his criteria and more to program what I'm interested in and use his challenge to explore some new stuff. I am subscribing the Shudder when I start this -- seems like a cool platform with a great selection. Will update with how that goes...
I start my Hooptober challenge in mid-September.

✅ 6 countries
✓ USA
✓ Brazil
✓ Italy
✓ Denmark
✓ Australia
✓ Japan

✅ 6 decades
✓ 2010s
✓ 1990s
✓ 1980s
✓ 1920s
✓ 2000s
✓ 1930s

✅ 6 films from before 1966
✓ Häxan (22)
✓ The Old Dark House (32)
✓ Black Sabbath (63)
✓ The Wolf Man (41)
✓ The Walking Dead (36)
✓ Faust (26)

✅ 6 films whose year ends in '6'
✓ Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (86)
✓ From Dust Til Dawn (96)
✓ Poltergeist II (86)
✓ Little Shop of Horrors (86)
✓ The Walking Dead (36)
✓ Faust (26)

✅ 6 films featuring work from the following: John Carl Buechler, Jack Pierce, Rob Bottin, Screaming Mad George, Lon Chaney and Carlo Rambaldi
✓ The Old Dark House (Pierce - uncredited)
✓ Poltergeist II (George)
✓ Wolf Man (Pierce)
✓ The Howling (Bottin)
✓ Possession (Rambaldi)
✓ The Abyss (George)

✅ The 6th film of a franchise
✓ The Curse of La Llorona (Conjuring Universe)

✅ 1 Reptile Rampage film as tribute to Crawl
✓ Son of Godzilla

✅ 2 women directed films
✓ Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
✓ Pet Sematary

✅ The lowest rated film from the 80s that you can access.
✓ Piranha II

✅ 1 film where the men and women of the church are having a bad day.
✓ Häxan

✅ 1 Larry Cohen or Dick Miller film
✓ The Howling (Miller)

✅ 1 Classic Universal
✓ The Old Dark House (32)
✓ The Wolf Man (41)

✅ 1 film with Dee Wallace in it.
✓ The Howling

✅ 1 film with a black director or predominantly black cast. (NO JORDAN PEELE)
✓ Ganja & Hess

✅ 1 film from a Mexican director to honour 2 great films from Gigi Saul Guerrero & Issa López. (NO GDT, but it can be GSG or Issa)
✓ Alucarda

✅ And 1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
✓ Poltergeist