Hooptober VII
Thank you, Cinemonster
"We'll all go together"
"Hell no, you're the curious one!"
I spent way too long on this. Started when the rules went live. Over 3 hours later, here I am.
Third Hooptober for me! I am really excited about the challenge this year as a means of launching into the season and the sweet escapism the very tone of this time of year can bring.
My First Hooptober.
My Second Hooptober.
My first year, I completed the list without watching the extra credit, and though I reviewed all of the films by the deadline, some of them were retrospective as I got behind. Last year I completed everything, culminating in my viewing of Haxan on…
Hooptober VII
Thank you, Cinemonster
"We'll all go together"
"Hell no, you're the curious one!"
I spent way too long on this. Started when the rules went live. Over 3 hours later, here I am.
Third Hooptober for me! I am really excited about the challenge this year as a means of launching into the season and the sweet escapism the very tone of this time of year can bring.
My First Hooptober.
My Second Hooptober.
My first year, I completed the list without watching the extra credit, and though I reviewed all of the films by the deadline, some of them were retrospective as I got behind. Last year I completed everything, culminating in my viewing of Haxan on Halloween!
As before, I attempted to keep most of the movies on this list as a first time watch, and in the current state of this list, all of these films will be first-time watches for me.
I may do a pregame to hooptober starting on Sept 1st, but we will see. This list may change, but I am making myself resist changing it after the challenge starts unless I find I cannot access one of the films or have made a mistake in meeting the criteria. Speaking of...
The rules for hooptober 7 can be found in the original post by cinemonster, here.
Stats:
Countries
Germany- Hagazussa
New Zealand- Bad Taste
Canada- Pontypool
Japan- Tetsuo & House
UK- 28 weeks
Russia- Sputnik
US- most of the rest
France- Martyrs
Decades
20's, 40's, 50's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's, 20
7 Second films in Franchise
28 weeks later
scream 2
[REC]2
Halloween 2
Hatchet 2
The Descent pt. 2
Evil Dead 2
4 Body Horror
Body Bags
Bad Taste
Tetsuol
The Thing
2 from this year
Candyman
Invisible Man
3 disease based films
Pontypool
28 weeks later
Cabin Fever
[REC]2
The highest rated film from the 50's that you haven't seen and can access
Diabolique
1 film in entirely one location
Pontypool
1 invisible person film
Invisible Man
1 non-Dracula Hammer film
The Hound of the Baskervilles
2 films with a black director or predominantly black cast or lead
Tales from the Hood
Demon Knight (edit as candyman was delayed to 2021)
1 film with a movie theater in it.
Scream 2
TOBE HOOPER
Body Bags
Edit: Removed Near Dark as I could not find it anywhere to stream and replaced it with Army of Darkness
