Living queerly with rot... is both possible and necessary.As they rot without permission, cells find release from the static objectification of the laboratory. Those prized bodies of long-extinct birds can break down, rejoining their kin in the damp crevices of the earth from which new life mutates into existence. Is it pertinent to ask about their right to decay? Languages of rights and entitlements struggle to find purchase where subject is object. Alternatively, it might be possible and richly generative to recognize the body’s organic inclination to decompose as desire. Tenderness & Rot by Elaina Foley

The world may be degenerating into entropy, but one constant remains: Halloween season horror movie marathons. That's right, I've been doing these since 2013 and this year I am once again participating in Cinemonster's HoopTober Challenge.

QUICK EASY RULES:
🪦 There must be 31 horror films
🪦 6 countries (other than Italy or US)
- Japan, Germany, France, Thailand, Canada, Spain, Mexico
🪦 9 decades
- 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
🪦 5 Zombie Films
-In a Violent Nature, Day of the Dead, Lifeforce, Cemetery of Terror, The Evil Dead
🪦 3 cult or conspiracy horror films
-Noriko's Dinner Table, Castration Movie II
🪦 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
-Def By Temptation
🪦 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
-Cemetery of Terror
🪦 1 Canadian film
-In a Violent Nature
🪦 1 former Soviet state film
Viy
🪦 The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access.
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
🪦 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
-Vampire Hunter D, Day of the Dead
🪦 1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
-Spellbound
🪦 1 The animals are pissed at us film
-Brotherhood of the Wolf
🪦1 Silent film
- Phantom of the Opera
🪦 4 based on Novels
-The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Innocents, Viy, Island of Lost Souls, Tomb of Ligeia
🪦 Any film from Cinemonster's List that you haven't seen.
-The Toxic Avenger
🪦 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
-The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock
🪦 1 film from 1932
- Island of Lost Souls
⚰️ WIZARD of OZ ('39)
🪦 And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
-Lifeforce

FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: 
🪦 WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).
⚰️ Review them all.(eek)

Like always, I'll be making a few changes. For instance, if want to complete the checklist, I have to count I everything I watch from September 1st through the first week of November. Of course, then I end up watching like 50+ films and run of out of time to review them all. This year, I'll try to review 31 films. On top of that, I'm creating an additional challenge for myself.

Review count: 6/31

PERSONAL CHECKLIST
5 films each for the following 5 categories: 
🪦 Subject matter: corpses, decomposition, or necrophilia
-Corpse Fucking Art, Dahmer, Orozco the Embalmer, La Poeme, Beyond the Darkness, Kissed 
🪦 Genre: gothic romance
-Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock, Beyond the Darkness, Kissed, Tomb of Ligeia, Phantom of the Opera
🪦 Release date: significant anniversary
-80-yr: -Spellbound, Picture of Dorian Gray
-40-yr: Vampire Hunter D, Day of the Dead, La Poeme
-20-yr: Noroi: The Curse, Noriko's Dinner Table
-25-yr: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
-10-yr: -The Blue Hour
🪦 Setting: Halloween day or night
-Over the Garden Wall, V/H/S Halloween, Halloween V, Halloween 6, Trick or Treat
🪦 LGBTQ leads or creators
-Pig, 1334, Dahmer, The Blue Hour, Cuckoo

Previous Challenges: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

Tenderness and Rot
By Kay RyanTenderness and rot
share a border.
And rot is an
aggressive neighbor
whose iridescence
keeps creeping over.No lessons
can be drawn
from this however.One is not
two countries.
One is not meat
corrupting.It is important
to stay sweet
and loving.