Come in the water is lovely and safe. By lovely I mean riddled with disease and by safe I mean swarming with sharks. As second wave looms over Europe... It's gotta be time to catch some surf dude... and by catch some surf I mean watch some horror films... honestly this all made a lot more sense before I started writing this introduction.

How can it be Hooptober 7 already? If you work in communications nothing quite keeps you busy like a pandemic. So fresh from working ridiculous hours and drinking more week nights than is probably advisable, I’m going to at least attempt to join in with Hooptober! Huzzah!

It’s my fifth Hooptober and something I genuinely look forward to as summer draws to a close. As always a huge thanks to Cinemonster for hosting. The admin alone on the main list looks insane, so thank you!

You can sign up yourself here.

Progress so far 33/33

6 countries 7/6 (UK, Italy, South Korea, Australia, Canada, USA, Japan)
6 decades 8/6 (1910s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
7 2nd films of franchises 7/7 (Cube 2, Creepshow 2, 47 metres uncaged, Psycho 2, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, bride of reanimator, lake of Dracula)
4 body horror films 4/4 (The Stuff, Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, bride of reanimator)
2 films from this year 4/2 (#Alive, Invisible Man, Vampires vs. The Bronx, Black box)
3 disease based films 3/3 (#Alive, Pontypool, The Crazies)
The highest rated horror film from the 50s that you haven't seen and can access. Night of the hunter 1/1
1 film that is set entirely inside one location 4/1 (Cube 1-3, Pontypool)
1 Invisible Person film 1/1 (Invisible man)
1 Non Dracula Hammer Film 2/1 (curse of Frankenstein, Captain Kronos)
2 films with a black director or predominantly black cast or lead. 2/2 (Vampires vs Bronx, Black box)
1 film with a movie theater in it. 1/1 (dead end drive in)
1 Tobe Hooper Films 1/1 The Mortuary
Witch Who Came From the Sea 1/1
Cube 2: Hypercube 1/1