See Cinemonster's list to check out the rules and other participants - and to participate, yourself, if you like!
This will be my third time participating in Hooptober. I completed it the first year but failed miserably last year because I got distracted by It Chapter Two - embarrassing, maybe, but I'm still writing fic of it a year later! Since I'll also be adding any horror movies I watch/rewatch during the challenge to this list, don't be surprised if one or more of the It adaptations make their way on here as well. It is lucky number Hooptober seven, for the seven members of the Losers Club, after all!
However, excluding potential "unplanned" rewatches/watches (Edit: everything from It on),…
See Cinemonster's list to check out the rules and other participants - and to participate, yourself, if you like!
This will be my third time participating in Hooptober. I completed it the first year but failed miserably last year because I got distracted by It Chapter Two - embarrassing, maybe, but I'm still writing fic of it a year later! Since I'll also be adding any horror movies I watch/rewatch during the challenge to this list, don't be surprised if one or more of the It adaptations make their way on here as well. It is lucky number Hooptober seven, for the seven members of the Losers Club, after all!
However, excluding potential "unplanned" rewatches/watches (Edit: everything from It on), every film on this list is a first-time watch for me!
Final Progress: 54/54 - Completed the original 32 and 22 extras!
QUICK EASY RULES
6 countries
Kwaidan - Japan
High Tension - France
The Company of Wolves - UK
The Believers - USA
Black Sabbath - Italy
La casa del fin de los tiempos - Venezuela
6 - no, 10 - decades
1920s - The Cat and the Canary
1930s - The Invisible Man
1950s - Godzilla (1954)
1960s - Kwaidan, Black Sabbath, The Masque of the Red Death, The Innocents
1970s - Jaws 2, Rabid, Vampire Circus, Blacula, Messiah of Evil
1980s - The Company of Wolves, The Believers, Society, Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1990s - Bride of Re-Animator, The Mangler, Barton Fink
2000s - High Tension, Blade II, The Devil's Rejects, Hostel: Part II, The Ruins, Cabin Fever
2010s - La casa del fin de los tiempos, The Conjuring 2, Unfriended: Dark Web, The Purge: Anarchy, Kuso
2020s - Underwater, Spree
7 2nd films of franchises
Blade II
The Conjuring 2
Unfriended: Dark Web
The Devil's Rejects
The Purge: Anarchy
Jaws 2
Hostel: Part II
4 body horror films
Society
The Ruins
Tetuso: The Iron Man
Bride of Re-Animator
2 films from this year
Underwater
Spree
3 disease-based films
Rabid
The Masque of the Red Death
Cabin Fever
The highest rated (on Letterboxd) horror film from the 50s that I haven't seen and can access - Godzilla (1954)
1 film that is set entirely inside 1 location - The Cat and the Canary
1 Invisible Person film - The Invisible Man (1933)
1 Non Dracula Hammer film - Vampire Circus
2 films with a black director or predominantly black cast or lead
Kuso
Blacula
1 film with a movie theater in it - Barton Fink - and can I just recommend this beautifully done YouTube video I watched for ideas while I'm at it?
And 1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - The Mangler
Bonus Films! (Watched/Rewatched as Extras After Challenge Start)
It (2017)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Color Out of Space
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) - watched twice!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Final Destination
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Poison
Afflicted
The Shining
Paranormal Activity 2
Black Christmas (1974)
Vacancy
Shutter (2004)
The Fourth Kind
House of Wax (2005)
Tales of Halloween
Next of Kin (1982)
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Thing (1982)