My 9th Hooptober. The first couple of them Ron pressured me into doing because somehow it felt limiting to only watch stuff prescribed by a list. I was wrong, it's a nice way to force myself into some new areas. Again this year Josh will join us in person as the three of us will knock out about 15 or so movies over a weekend. Josh won't make or finish a list, Ron will and he'll crush the 31 movies before October starts but then he'll realize on October 29th he has done 50 movies but somehow has left 10 boxes unchecked. Jon might join us again, we'll see. He gets busy being a reply guy on threads.
My list…
My 9th Hooptober. The first couple of them Ron pressured me into doing because somehow it felt limiting to only watch stuff prescribed by a list. I was wrong, it's a nice way to force myself into some new areas. Again this year Josh will join us in person as the three of us will knock out about 15 or so movies over a weekend. Josh won't make or finish a list, Ron will and he'll crush the 31 movies before October starts but then he'll realize on October 29th he has done 50 movies but somehow has left 10 boxes unchecked. Jon might join us again, we'll see. He gets busy being a reply guy on threads.
My list won't be truly complete until midnight on Halloween. I will fill it out in advance to make sure I fulfill every rule on this year's list but I also will and up watching a lot of other stuff and add it as I go. I did 85 films last year but also I was in a weird place. I will do my list in rank order and that will be my watch order (except when I watch the same movie more than once which happens every year somehow).
The masterpost from Cinemonster is here.
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.
