Greeting, fellow scaremongers,
Three years in a row, I tried desperately to fullfill my duties as a connoisseur of the crypt and watch 31 horror movies in the span of 31 days, failing my dark masters each time. No more! Like an apple filled with razor blades, I am swallowing my pride by starting my Hooptober-watching mid september like any other unnormal person. Like last year, consider this list shared with the second head of this cinephilic cerberus, maeron. Here's to finally finishing one of these damned things for once, and as allways, thanks to cinemonster for his original list.
6 countries (other than Italy or US) -> Taiwan (Incantation), UK (The Wicker Man), Russia (Nails), Mexico (The Devil's Backbone),…
Greeting, fellow scaremongers,
Three years in a row, I tried desperately to fullfill my duties as a connoisseur of the crypt and watch 31 horror movies in the span of 31 days, failing my dark masters each time. No more! Like an apple filled with razor blades, I am swallowing my pride by starting my Hooptober-watching mid september like any other unnormal person. Like last year, consider this list shared with the second head of this cinephilic cerberus, maeron. Here's to finally finishing one of these damned things for once, and as allways, thanks to cinemonster for his original list.
6 countries (other than Italy or US) -> Taiwan (Incantation), UK (The Wicker Man), Russia (Nails), Mexico (The Devil's Backbone), Sweden (Häxan), Japan (Noroi), Spain (Thesis), Germany (The Fan), France (In My Skin)
9 decades -> 20s (Häxan), 30s (Vampyr), 40s (I Walked with a Zombie), 50s (Los Diablos del Terror), 60s (Village of the Damned), 70s (Zombie Flesh Eaters), 80s (Spontaneous Combustion), 90s (Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh), 00s (In My Skin), 10s (Blood Quantum), 20s (Winnie the Pooh - Blood and Honey 2)
5 Zombie Films -> Zombie Flesh Eaters, Life After Beth, Dawn of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Blood Quantum
3 cult or conspiracy horror films -> Inantation, Noroi, The Wicker Man
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead -> (Blacula
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director -> Los Diablos del Terror
1 Canadian film -> Blood Quantum
1 former Soviet state film -> Nails
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access.. -> I Walked with a Zombie
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films -> Threads, Night of the Comet
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot -> Nightmare in a Damaged Brain
1 The animals are pissed at us film -> Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
1 Silent film -> Häxan
4 based on Novels -> Misery, Nightbreed, Village of the Damned, The Vampire Lovers
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. -> Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film -> Your Vice is a Locked Room and only I have the key
1 film from 1932 -> Vampyr
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)