Hooptober! Hooptober! My eighth time around the horn and I've been looking forward to it all summer long.
I've been a first-time homeowner for almost a year now and it's still standing, so that's my main accomplishment. Unsurprisingly, now that I pay a mortgage, I haven't had the discretionary funds to do much of anything else. At 33, I'm starting to find that my free time is mysteriously shrinking and there's always something else to do. But this October, that something else is 31 horror movies, baby! Here we go!
Thanks to Cinemonster for originating and arranging this crazy thing. Here's the rules:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US): Estonia, UK, Belarus, Canada,…
Hooptober! Hooptober! My eighth time around the horn and I've been looking forward to it all summer long.
I've been a first-time homeowner for almost a year now and it's still standing, so that's my main accomplishment. Unsurprisingly, now that I pay a mortgage, I haven't had the discretionary funds to do much of anything else. At 33, I'm starting to find that my free time is mysteriously shrinking and there's always something else to do. But this October, that something else is 31 horror movies, baby! Here we go!
Thanks to Cinemonster for originating and arranging this crazy thing. Here's the rules:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US): Estonia, UK, Belarus, Canada, Mexico, Poland, Norway, Japan
9 decades: 1910s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
5 Zombie Films: Zombeavers, 28 Years Later, Alone, Life After Beth, Dead Snow
3 cult or conspiracy horror films: Starry Eyes, The Devil, Poison for the Fairies, The Savage Hunt of King Stakh
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: Def by Temptation
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Poison for the Fairies
1 Canadian film: Popcorn
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan): November, Savage Hunt of King Stakh
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..: The Spiral Staircase
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films: Rats: Night of Terror, The House That Dripped Blood
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: The Cell
1 The animals are pissed at us film: Zombeavers, Rats: Night of Terror
1 Silent film: Suspense
4 based on Novels: November, The Legend of Hell House, National Theatre Live: Frankenstein, Savage Hunt of King Stakh
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.: Heretic
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: The Case of the Bloody Iris
1 film from 1932: Murders in the Rue Morgue
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39): I just watched this so I'm skipping it, sorry, but I'll watch Trick or Treat as penance.
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): Mortuary
