Happy impending spooky season, the best time of the year! Today, as I make this list, it's cool and breezy where I am and I can almost smell Autumn in the air. It's the perfect time to start thinking about the Halloween season. So, without further ado, here are my films for Hooptober 12. This is my first year of participating in this challenge and I'm really looking forward to it. These are all new watches for me (except Wizard of Oz). I'm pretty sure the hardest part won't be getting them all watched, it will be trying to review them all!
I'll put my top 5 new watches here as I go (31/31 watched so far):
1. Heretic
2.…
Happy impending spooky season, the best time of the year! Today, as I make this list, it's cool and breezy where I am and I can almost smell Autumn in the air. It's the perfect time to start thinking about the Halloween season. So, without further ado, here are my films for Hooptober 12. This is my first year of participating in this challenge and I'm really looking forward to it. These are all new watches for me (except Wizard of Oz). I'm pretty sure the hardest part won't be getting them all watched, it will be trying to review them all!
I'll put my top 5 new watches here as I go (31/31 watched so far):
1. Heretic
2. Hatching
3. Memories of Murder
4. Braindead
5. Haxan
QUICK EASY RULES:
(from Cinemonster - fearless leader of Hooptober)
1) There must be 31 horror films (one film can satisfy multiple criteria)
2) Six countries (other than Italy or US) – Went a bit overboard on this category!
• Haxan (Sweden)
• Battle Royale & Ringu (Japan)
• Hatching (Finland)
• Handling the Dead (Norway)
• Titane (Belgium/France)
• Demon (Poland)
• Dead of Night (UK) & Threads (UK/Australia)
• Braindead (New Zealand)
• Seoul Station & Memories of Murder (South Korea)
• *Plus the three other built in categories (Mexico, Canada, Russia)
3) Nine decades
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
4) Five Zombie Films
• Day of the Dead
• Handling the Undead
• Cemetery Man
• Seoul Station
• 28 Years Later
• City of the Living Dead
5) Three cult or conspiracy horror films
• Santa Sangre
• Bad Dreams
• Messiah of Evil
6) A film from a Black director with a Black lead
Ganja & Hess
7) A film from a Mexican or Central American director
Disappear Completely
8) A Canadian film
• Pin
• Backcountry
9) A Russian or former Russian state film
The Bride
10) The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access
Dead of Night (1945)
11) Two Post Apocalyptic horror films
• Threads
• It Comes at Night
• 28 Years Later
• Day of the Dead
12) A Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
• Bad Dreams
• All the Colors of the Dark
13) One the animals are pissed at us film
Backcountry
14) A Silent film
Häxan
15) Four films based on Novels
• Salem’s Lot
• Pin
• Battle Royale
• Ringu
• Wizard of Oz
• Handling the Undead
16) Any film from this list that you haven't seen: boxd.it/dQWe
Braindead (Plus quite a few others)
17) An Ernesto Gastaldi written film
All the Colors of the Dark
18) A film from 1932
Freaks
19) I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but
WIZARD of OZ ('39)
20) And one Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Salem’s Lot
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat. (Not sure if I can even find these but I'll try!)
*Don't forget to review them all*
Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.
For all the info and guidelines, check in with Cinemonster.
