My second Hooptober! Last year was a deranged blast and I can't wait to submit my poor eyes to it again.
Doing the extra credit this year as well! All films except for Wizard of Oz are first-time watches for me. Starting on or around 15 September. I also may watch a few appetizers that I left on the cutting room floor before that!
THE RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US):
France: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) ✅ (review)
New Zealand: The Quiet Earth (1985) ✅ (review)
Chechoslovakia: Witchhammer (1970)
Estonia: Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979) ✅ (review)
Mexico: Alucarda (1977) ✅ (review)
Poland: On the Silver Globe (1988) ✅ (review)
9 decades:
1920s:…
My second Hooptober! Last year was a deranged blast and I can't wait to submit my poor eyes to it again.
Doing the extra credit this year as well! All films except for Wizard of Oz are first-time watches for me. Starting on or around 15 September. I also may watch a few appetizers that I left on the cutting room floor before that!
THE RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US):
France: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) ✅ (review)
New Zealand: The Quiet Earth (1985) ✅ (review)
Chechoslovakia: Witchhammer (1970)
Estonia: Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979) ✅ (review)
Mexico: Alucarda (1977) ✅ (review)
Poland: On the Silver Globe (1988) ✅ (review)
9 decades:
1920s: The Phantom Carriage (1921) ✅ (review)
1930s: Freaks (1932) ✅ (review)
1940s: Cat People (1942) ✅ (review)
1960s: The Possessed (1965) ✅ (review)
1970s: The Devils (1971) ✅ (review)
1990s: Body Snatchers (1993) ✅ (review)
2000s: Martyrs (2008) ✅ (review)
2010s: Insidious (2010) ✅ (review)
2020s: Come True (2020) ✅ (review)
5 Zombie Films:
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) ✅ (review)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Re-Animator (1985) ✅ (review)
Train to Busan (2016) ✅ (review)
One Cut of the Dead (2017) ✅ (review)
3 cult or conspiracy horror films:
The Possessed (1965) ✅ (review)
Kill List (2011) ✅ (review)
The Other Lamb (2019) ✅ (review)
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead:
Tales from the Hood (1995) ✅ (review)
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director:
Alucarda (1977) ✅ (review)
1 Canadian film:
Come True (2020) ✅ (review)
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan):
Viy (1967) ✅ (review)
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..:
Cat People (1942) ✅ (review)
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films:
On the Silver Globe (1988) ✅ (review)
The Last Man on Earth (1964) ✅ (review)
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot:
Come True (2020) ✅ (review)
1 The animals are pissed at us film:
Night of the Lepus (1972) ✅ (review)
1 Silent film:
The Phantom Carriage (1921) ✅ (review)
4 based on Novels:
The Haunting (1963) based on The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson ✅ (review)
Candyman (1992) based on "The Forbidden" (1984) by Clive Barker ✅ (review)
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979) based on Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1970) by Boris and Arkady Strugatski ✅ (review)
The Last Man on Earth (1964) based on I am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson ✅ (review)
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen:
The Devils (1971) ✅ (review)
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film:
All the Colors of the Dark (1972) ✅ (review)
1 film from 1932:
Freaks (1932) ✅ (review)
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39):
The Wizard of Oz (1939) ✅ (review)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film):
Salem's Lot (1979) ✅ (review)
EXTRA WORK:
Burn Witch Burn (1962)
German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)
Trick or Treat (1986)