started on september 5th; films watched: 36/43
yay, hooptober is here! 🧡 as much as i intensely mourn the end of summer, the arrival of this film challenge helps me cope and get excited for spooky season! i'm starting this as early as possible since i'll be working three film fests + doing shoots in the coming weeks, so here we gooo. 👻
there are a few films in my list that fit the criteria for multiple categories but i wanted to have unique picks for each of them. i'll be watching these in random order.
you can find the the original challenge by cinemonster here.
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the categories, and my picks:
🌎 6 countries (other than italy or the…
started on september 5th; films watched: 36/43
yay, hooptober is here! 🧡 as much as i intensely mourn the end of summer, the arrival of this film challenge helps me cope and get excited for spooky season! i'm starting this as early as possible since i'll be working three film fests + doing shoots in the coming weeks, so here we gooo. 👻
there are a few films in my list that fit the criteria for multiple categories but i wanted to have unique picks for each of them. i'll be watching these in random order.
you can find the the original challenge by cinemonster here.
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the categories, and my picks:
🌎 6 countries (other than italy or the US)
✔️ the cremator (1969) - czechoslovakia
the third part of the night (1971) - poland
✔️ angst (1983) - austria
✔️ cure (1997) - japan
✔️ la casa lobo (2019) - chile/germany
✔️ saloum (2021) - france/senegal
🗓 9 decades
the phantom carriage (1921)
✔️ the wolf man (1941)
✔️ the night of the hunter (1955)
✔️ seconds (1966)
demons (1971)
tenebre (1982)
✔️ jacob's ladder (1990)
✔️ sinister (2012)
✔️ bring her back (2025)
🧟 5 zombie films
✔️ messiah of evil (1974)
✔️ the beyond (1981)
✔️ 28 weeks later (2007)
✔️ one cut of the dead (2017)
✔️ 28 years later (2025)
👀 3 cult or conspiracy horror films
✔️ black sunday (1960)
✔️ ready or not (2019)
✔️ weapons (2025)
🖤 1 film from a black director with a black lead
✔️ tales from the hood (1995)
🇲🇽 1 film from a mexican or central american director
tigers are not afraid (2017)
🇨🇦 1 canadian film
✔️ dead ringers (1988)
🇰🇬 1 former soviet state film
✔️ viy (1967) - russia
😸 the most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access
✔️ cat people (1942)
🐺 2 post apocalyptic horror films
✔️ time of the wolf (2003)
✔️ it comes at night (2007)
💭 1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
inland empire (2006)
🐦⬛ 1 "the animals are pissed at us" film
✔️ the birds (1963)
👁️ 1 silent film
✔️ un chien andalou (1929)
📖 4 films based on novels
✔️ frankenstein (1931)
✔️ the innocents (1961)
✔️ carrie (1976)
pulse (2001)
💁🏻♀️ any film from this list that you haven't seen
✔️ what ever happened to baby jane? (1962)
🪒 1 ernesto gastaldi written film
✔️ the strange vice of mrs. wardh (1971)
🧛🏻 1 film from 1932
✔️ (1932)
👠 "i have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)"
✔️ wizard of oz (1939)
👻 and 1 tobe hooper film (there must ALWAYS be a hooper film)
✔️ poltergeist (1982)
🤎 ***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: watch burn witch burn, german chainsaw massacre & trick or treat (1986)
✔️ trick or treat (1986)