This will be my 6th Hooptober, and my love for this challenge and its community grows every year. What a year it’s been, Hooptoblerites. In October 2024 I found out I was getting laid off from my job of over 5 years. And then a week later I discovered I’d be a father for the second time.
Since then I’m still unemployed, but we welcomed our son into the world and he and his older sister are amazing. You take the good with the bad.
Between taking care of my newborn and looking for work (two full-time jobs in their own right), I have less free time than ever. I’m not going to stress if I don’t make it to…
This will be my 6th Hooptober, and my love for this challenge and its community grows every year. What a year it’s been, Hooptoblerites. In October 2024 I found out I was getting laid off from my job of over 5 years. And then a week later I discovered I’d be a father for the second time.
Since then I’m still unemployed, but we welcomed our son into the world and he and his older sister are amazing. You take the good with the bad.
Between taking care of my newborn and looking for work (two full-time jobs in their own right), I have less free time than ever. I’m not going to stress if I don’t make it to 31, or I fail to write all my reviews. We’ll just see what we can get done.
Most of these are first-time watches, with some old favorites sprinkled in. As always, thank you Cinemonster for conjuring this up. This is my favorite time of year and I’m so happy to be part of this community.
This is Hooptober. Death is listening, and will take the first one who screams.
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US): Estonia✔️, Canada✔, France✔️, Mexico✔, Northern Ireland✔, Indonesia✔
9 decades: 20s✔, 30s✔, 40s✔, 50s✔, 60s✔, 70s✔. 80s✔, 90s✔️, 2010s✔, 2020s✔
5 Zombie Films: 28 Years Later✔, Shock Waves✔, Zombie 3✔️ We Are Zombies✔, Premutos✔️
3 cult or conspiracy horror films: I Drink Your Blood✔, Lair of the White Worm✔, Satan’s Slaves 2✔
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: Mr. Crockett✔
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: The Bat Woman✔
1 Canadian film: We Are Zombies✔
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan): November (Estonia)✔️
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access: Cat People✔
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films: 28 Years Later✔, Day the World Ended✔
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: A Nightmare on Elm Street✔️
1 The animals are pissed at us film: Infested✔️
1 Silent film: Nosferatu (1922)✔
4 films based on novels: House of the Long Shadows✔, Lair of the White Worm✔, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll✔, Island of Lost Souls✔
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen: Lair of the White Worm✔
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: The Whip and the Body✔
1 film from 1932: Island of Lost Souls✔
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): Eaten Alive✔️
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).
Bonus films: Curse of the Cat People ✔, Halloween Party✔, The Wolf Man✔, Weapons✔️, Bring Her Back✔️, The Pumpkin Man✔️
PREVIOUS LISTS
Hooptober 11: Your Vice Is a Locked Room in an Old Dark House and Only I Have the Chainsaw
Hooptober X: The Devil Made Me Do It
Hooptober 9 From Outer Space
Hooptober VIII: The Dream Child
Hooptober VII: The New Blood