Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make. Welcome back, one and all, to tonight’s main entertainment. Everyone's favorite month-long, daily Halloween activity is coming back, and it's gonna be bigger and spookier than ever!
The Hooptober chat I’ve created has only grown more and more each year, with 80 participating members this year. My production company, Backpad Productions is collaborating with Small Doll Productions for an official Hooptober event at Peabody Heights Brewery this year, with a potential talkback from the director of a movie we are showing, and there have been 12 people signed up to host. We will also be wrapping up and (hopefully) premiering the feature horror film You’re Gonna Love My Friends that…
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make. Welcome back, one and all, to tonight’s main entertainment. Everyone's favorite month-long, daily Halloween activity is coming back, and it's gonna be bigger and spookier than ever!
The Hooptober chat I’ve created has only grown more and more each year, with 80 participating members this year. My production company, Backpad Productions is collaborating with Small Doll Productions for an official Hooptober event at Peabody Heights Brewery this year, with a potential talkback from the director of a movie we are showing, and there have been 12 people signed up to host. We will also be wrapping up and (hopefully) premiering the feature horror film You’re Gonna Love My Friends that I directed, which was initially inspired BY Hooptober, and conceived of during my second Hooptober.
There will also be two blowout house parties, cases on cases of pumpkin beer and Halloween candy, and, of course, 31 spine-tingling horror movies (plus extra credit), which is why we’re all here.
This is my 7th year doing Hooptober, and it’s hard to overstate, year after year, how much this means to me. My mental health plummets whenever the sun goes down early and the air gets chilly. This has always been a way to combat that – what started as a fun watch challenge to do by myself has grown into an IRL community that connects so many people in my life under one true banner: a love of horror and all things spooky.
So without further ado, you know the drill: 1 movie a day, and I promise I will write a review for each.
I will fill in the rules section with the movies that meet the criteria once I actually watch them. As always, I'll be watching some of my favorite spooky cartoons along with each film. That list can be found here, and please let me know if there are any essential ones you feel I am missing: letterboxd.com/calebthehairy/list/spoopy-cartoons-hooptober-companion-list/
The rules:
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
9 decades
5 Zombie Films
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
1 Canadian film
1 Russian or former Russian state film
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
1 The animals are pissed at us film
1 Silent film
4 based on Novels
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
1 film from 1932
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat.
7 years strong! Here are my past Hooptobers:
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
You can find Cinemonster's list here: https://letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/the-twelfth-of-hooptober-diary-of-a-madman/
As always, hats off to Cinemonster for putting this together. If the comment section on your 2023 post for the last 2 months means anything, it should be a sign that what you’ve created means so much to everyone in the Letterboxd horror community. Thank you for making October so special for so many people.
