Good Moring Sunshine! Time to Hoop it up once more!
Same as last year I'm not starting out aiming for Hard Mode (Only one criteria per film), but I ended up doing it anyway last year so we'll see. Keeping my running tab of every country I have used in the past* and only using new ones for that criteria.
My own personal add-ons, I watch everything I haven't seen from a franchise (Psycho this year, everything past the original), I force myself to watch a Rob Zombie movie every year, and of course I never include rewatches except where required (Wizard of Oz this year). I'd really like to make sure I see Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter…
Good Moring Sunshine! Time to Hoop it up once more!
Same as last year I'm not starting out aiming for Hard Mode (Only one criteria per film), but I ended up doing it anyway last year so we'll see. Keeping my running tab of every country I have used in the past* and only using new ones for that criteria.
My own personal add-ons, I watch everything I haven't seen from a franchise (Psycho this year, everything past the original), I force myself to watch a Rob Zombie movie every year, and of course I never include rewatches except where required (Wizard of Oz this year). I'd really like to make sure I see Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing at least once, but I don't think they're on the list at this point, might have to go into overtime for them.
Previous Hooptobers
2020(Retrospective): Hooptober Minus One (36)
2021: Hooptober Ultimate (151)
2022: My Defeated Heart Keeps Beating On (63)
2023: All Hail West Texas Chainsaw Massacre (52)
2024: Hooptober 11: Don't Stop Bereaving (44)
2025: Hooptober 12th: This is How We Get Deader
X- 6 countries (other than Italy or US) [Lebanon] [Rwanda] [Azerbaijan] [Philippines] [Russia] [Jamaica]
\ - 9 decades - 1912 [X] 1922 [X] 1938 [X] 1948 [X] 1951 [X] 1966 [X] 1978 [X] 1983 [X] 2025 [\]
\ - 5 Zombie Films [X] [X] [X] [\] [\]
\ - 3 cult or conspiracy horror films [X] [X] [\]
X - 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead [X]
\ - 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director [\]
X - 1 Canadian film [X]
\ - 1 Russian or former Russian state film [\]
X - The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access. [X]
\ - 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films [X] [\]
X- 1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot [X]
X - 1 The animals are pissed at us film [X]
\ - 1 Silent film [\]
X- 4 based on Novels [X] [X] [X] [X]
\ - Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. [\]
X - 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film [X]
X - 1 film from 1932 [X]
X - WIZARD of OZ ('39) [X]
X - 1 Tobe Hooper Film [X]
X - Burn Witch Burn [X]
X - German Chainsaw Massacre [X]
X - Trick or Treat [X]
*List of countries I have used for Hooptober so far:
[USA] [England] [Mexico] [Spain] [Canada]
[Italy] [Cameroon] [Germany] [Russian Empire] [Japan]
[Estonia] [China] [South Korea] [Finland] [Australia]
[Netherlands] [Taiwan] [Brazil] [Algeria] [Puerto Rico]
[Sri Lanka] [Iran] [Denmark] [New Zealand] [Sao Tome and Principe]
[Portugal] [Uganda] [Vietnam] [Malaysia] [Scotland]
[Greece] [Albania] [Kenya] [Andorra] [Belgium]
[Namibia] [USSR] [Poland] [Belarus] [Thailand]
[Hungary] [Cuba] [Ireland] [Indonesia] [Iceland]
[Lithuania] [India] [Nigeria] [France] [Jordan] [Colombia]
[Norway] [Uruguay] [Panama] [South Africa] [Czechoslovakia] [Kazakhstan]
[Argentina] [Belize] [Paraguay] [Lao People's Democratic Republic] [Ethiopia] [Afghanistan]
