The year is 2020, anno domini. We sit in our battlements, staring into the plague scorched realm, searching for a beacon to keep the fires in our souls burning. While society has not fully crumbled into a full on Wasteland to wander, it's still been a year.
But it is also a year. And that means Hoop-Tober is Coming. And so, here we are, preparing for the greatest unofficial holiday since Talk Like a Pirate Day. This year makes my 7th running of Hoop-Tober's valiant bulls. I hope you all have fun and give some neat films a look-see. It's a fun time to enjoy and share in this hobby of ours. Check out someone new on the site and their voice. Give a review of theirs a comment and a like. Be welcoming and don't let a disagreement on horror films discourage you from interacting with someone else. Be kind and keep doing el bueno monstro's work.
Laying Down the Law, Cinemonster Style:
The Goal is to watch approx 31 films over the hallowed month of October, but seeing as there is this thing called full-time employment, the festivities begin September 15 so as to allow adequate leeway for completion.
✓6 Countries [Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan]
✓6 Decades [40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020]
✓7 2nd films of franchises [Coffin Joe, Invisible Man, Scream Blacula, Hammer's Fronkensteen, Wolf Creek, The Fly, Cube]
✓4 body horror films [Creeps, Tetsuo, FlyII, Ginger]
✓2 films from this year [Underwater, Gretel Hansel]
✓3 disease based films [Carrier, Ebola Syndrome, Black Death]
✓The highest rated horror film from the 50s that you can access. [Going with Curse of Fronkensteen]
✓1 film that is set entirely inside one location [Underwater should count for this]
✓1 Invisible Person film [he Returns]
✓1 Non Dracula Hammer Film [Got three]
✓2 films with a black director or predominantly black cast or lead. [Blacula, Scream Blacula]
✓1 film with a movie theater in it. [Needed to see Fade to Black since I got on this site]
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film -- i mean, it's right there in the title!✓
BONUS: Witch Who Came from the Sea✓ AND CUBE 2, Hypercube✓
Only 2 Riffed Properties on the list this year, but I plan to pre-game some quality Rifftrax and MST3k to make up for such.
Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.
Feel free to sneak a peek at my previous Hoop-Tobers as well as the many reviews I've constructed in accordance with such.
Let's Get Busy, o gentle ghouls.
#HooptoberLives

*At first I had to remove Cat's Eye and the Innocents, but I restored them to the listing as Pre Game Materia.