Spooky season is nearly upon us again... my primary goal this year is to watch all the films in Severin's "All the Haunts Be Ours" folk horror boxset that I haven't seen before. It feels apt in a couple of ways. We are fighting against forces that feel both contemporary and ancient; the witch hunt today is against trans people, and it's partly still driven by the powerful wielding religion as a weapon of hate and persecution - or a new kind of fanatical devotion, to power structures invented to justify colonial atrocities and the oppression of all women. On the flip side, people who don't fit into the modern construct of the cisnormative gender binary represent a deeply ancient…
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Hooptober XII: A Thicket of Shadows
Spooky season is nearly upon us again... my primary goal this year is to watch all the films in Severin's "All the Haunts Be Ours" folk horror boxset that I haven't seen before. It feels apt in a couple of ways. We are fighting against forces that feel both contemporary and ancient; the witch hunt today is against trans people, and it's partly still driven by the powerful wielding religion as a weapon of hate and persecution - or a new kind of fanatical devotion, to power structures invented to justify colonial atrocities and the oppression of all women. On the flip side, people who don't fit into the modern construct of the cisnormative gender binary represent a deeply ancient power that was traditionally granted a place of spiritual significance in pre-Christian societies... such a repressed and suppressed power rising up in vengeance against the persecutors who have sought to destroy it sure sounds like folk horror to me. The only difference is that poltergeists aren't real... I am.
Track Record:
◽ Hooptober 6/6/6 - 84%
◽ Hooptober Part VII - 88%
◽ Zombies 8 My Hooptober - 77%
◽ Hooptober 9 From Outer Space - 80%
◽ Hooptober X: Hoop Me Baby One More Time - 100%
◽ Hooptober XI: 365 Horror Girl - 87%
Hooptober 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
✔️ [Cinemonster] ha[s] 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)
