Welcome library horror hounds!! Library staff are back for the annual HoopTober Challenge here on Letterboxd, hoping to help fuel your nightmares with a wide variety of horror movies. From September 15--October 31st, library staff will watch and review 31 horror movies. All of these movies are available to watch for free through your library, and we stand at the ready to offer additional suggestions (and help you find them) as desired.
Follow us here on Letterboxd to keep up with our reviews, and cast an eye on our Facebook and Instagram pages for other fun stuff.
And if you choose to take the HoopTober Challenge yourself, make sure to link to your list in the comments and TAG your…
Welcome library horror hounds!! Library staff are back for the annual HoopTober Challenge here on Letterboxd, hoping to help fuel your nightmares with a wide variety of horror movies. From September 15--October 31st, library staff will watch and review 31 horror movies. All of these movies are available to watch for free through your library, and we stand at the ready to offer additional suggestions (and help you find them) as desired.
Follow us here on Letterboxd to keep up with our reviews, and cast an eye on our Facebook and Instagram pages for other fun stuff.
And if you choose to take the HoopTober Challenge yourself, make sure to link to your list in the comments and TAG your reviews with HoopTober12 so we can keep track of what we're watching. Be sure to link to your list over on Cinemonster's page as well, as they are the Frankenstein cursed with creating this particular monster every year.
Click "read notes" or the glasses icon if using the Letterboxd app to read our reviews and place holds or stream on Kanopy.
Our past HoopTobers:
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Below are the criteria that must be filled. Let's have some fun...
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 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
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 (1986).
-review them all.(eek)
Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.
Now let's do that voodoo that we do so well.