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First time, started late.

Haven't seen any of the list except:
The Invisible Man (2020), saw last week
and #Alive (2020), saw last night. Using this opportunity to eliminate some blind spots.

Roster:
6 countries:
Godzilla (Japan)
Atlantics (Senegal)
Knife + Heart (France)
#Alive (South Korea)
Under the Shadow (UK, in Persian)
Blood and Black Lace (Italy)

6 decades:
House On Haunted Hill (1959)
Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Society (1989)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
The Love Witch (2016)

7 2nd films of franchises:
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
The Conjuring 2
Seoul Station
Maniac Cop 2
Bride of Re-Animator
Dr. Phibes Rises Again

4 body horror films:
Raw
Society
Eyes Without A Face
The Incredible Melting Man

2 films from this year:
#Alive
The Invisible Man

3 disease based films
Contagion
#Alive
Seoul Station

The highest rated horror film from the 50s that you haven't seen and can access.
Godzilla (1954)

1 film that is set entirely inside one location
House on Haunted Hill

1 Invisible Person film
The Invisible Man

1 Non Dracula Hammer Film
Twins of Evil

2 films with a black director or predominantly black cast or lead.
Slice
Atlantics

1 film with a movie theater in it.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Mid-month update: only 40% in. The pandemic rages on, and in the US, it’s an election year, and Trump is everywhere. I am full of horror. In between Hooptober sessions, I should watch old episodes of the Waltons or CHiPs, to get away from the dark, but instead I’m watching episodes of Flanagan’s Bly Manor on Netflix. When this is over, I’m going to read for a week. Something warm and cuddly.

Late in the month update: counting the days. I’ve swallowed too much horror. I’m bleeding internally, and vomiting blood. 7 more days. The first thing I will do is read “The Velveteen Rabbit.” The second thing I will do is watch a bad Disney sitcom with my child. The third thing I will do is watch an episode of anything on HGTV.

from the Sacramento Bee, November 1st, 2020

Armed Man Attempts to Hijack Plane in Act of Domestic Terrorism Against Pennsylvania Biden rally

Sacramento, California
A man attempted to hijack a domestic plane at the Sacramento International Airport early Sunday morning. The man has been identified as J.Marculescu of Sacramento, California.

Mr. Marculescu attempted to go through Sacramento International Airport security lines to board a red-eye flight to Philadelphia, PA while carrying an AR-15 assault rifle early Sunday morning. Mr. Marculescu had intended to commandeer the plane, and to intentionally crash the plane into a Biden campaign rally being planned for Sunday, which former President Barack Obama was to have attended. The airport was put on lockdown, tactical teams responded, and Mr. Marculescu surprised everyone by laying down his assault weapon, and surrendering peacefully to authorities. While being taken away, Mr. Marculescu continued to scream full volume about “the China Virus,” that Joe Biden was a “sleeper agent”, and that “Antifa…[was coming to take guns away.]” On several occasions, he was heard to scream unintelligibly, in what was thought to be a foreign language. The FBI stated there was no evidence to show the gunman had any foreign loyalties, or was planning to disrupt the 2020 election as a result of foreign election interference. The gunman is being held on psychiatric hold, in federal custody, while his fitness to stand trial is being determined.

His wife blamed a overabundance of political journalism during the election, media consumption during something called the “Hooptober Challenge” (a self-imposed marathon of high violence and gory films), and the isolation from friends and family during the COVID-19 panic. Apparently the film, Midsommar, a 2019 by director Ari Aster, was the last thing the gunman watched prior to purchasing the assault rifle on October 31st in a private, and possibly illegal sale. Mrs. Marculescu stated, “He finished that damn movie, and began gibbering incoherently almost immediately.” Mrs. Marculescu further described her husband as fleeing their home taking a large amount of cash. She further stated, “I hope that everyone votes out the kind of reprehensible and disgusting political opportunists like our president, who’s inflammatory rhetoric eats away at the sanity of vulnerable individuals like my husband. Maybe Fox News should tone it down a bit.” A federal air marshall, quoted on condition of anonymity, stated this event was “a close call, but should be a sentinel event for everyone in the country, and should convince us to strengthen our gun laws.”