Would you look at that - my fifth Hooptober.
Link to Cinemonster's original list.
Since I can't get enough of this stuff, I'm also doing the yearlong Criterion Challenge and Oh My Horror 2025, so I took any opportunities I could to overlap. I managed to triple dip on three movies and I feel like I'm slowly turning my movie-watching into a complicated puzzle game. So here goes me showing my work:
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
check
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
By my count, I've got Germany, UK, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Russia, Mexico, Hong Kong, Spain, and Denmark
9 decades
Wasn't on purpose, but looks like I've hit every decade from…
Would you look at that - my fifth Hooptober.
Link to Cinemonster's original list.
Since I can't get enough of this stuff, I'm also doing the yearlong Criterion Challenge and Oh My Horror 2025, so I took any opportunities I could to overlap. I managed to triple dip on three movies and I feel like I'm slowly turning my movie-watching into a complicated puzzle game. So here goes me showing my work:
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
check
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
By my count, I've got Germany, UK, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Russia, Mexico, Hong Kong, Spain, and Denmark
9 decades
Wasn't on purpose, but looks like I've hit every decade from the 1920s to the 2020s. Nice!
5 Zombie Films
#Alive
Mortuary
Sugar Hill
Surf II
Bio Zombie
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
The Conspiracy
Thesis
Mute Witness
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
Blink Twice
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
Santo in the Wax Museum
1 Canadian film
Humane
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
Sputnik
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
Dead of Night
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
Humane
#Alive
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
Dead of Night
1 The animals are pissed at us film
Frogs
1 Silent film
The Phantom Carriage
4 based on Novels
Vampyr
Phantom Carriage
Dead of Night
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
Strange Darling
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
All the Colors of the Dark
1 film from 1932
Vampyr
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
The Wizard of Oz ('39)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Mortuary
***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.