I can be hard to squeeze in 31 feature-length movies in October (or from September 15th-October 31st). People have jobs and families and lives, and they get bummed out about not finishing their list.
To help in that regard, I've pulled together a program of 31 shorts that meet the criteria of Hooptober 12. With a couple of exceptions, all of the selections are under an hour, with many under 20 minutes.
(I took some slight liberties with the rules, as The Wizard of Oz '39 would be the longest by far, so I swapped in a same-decade animated short of the same material. Similarly, filmed shorts are not generally the best place for a novel adaptation, so some of…
I can be hard to squeeze in 31 feature-length movies in October (or from September 15th-October 31st). People have jobs and families and lives, and they get bummed out about not finishing their list.
To help in that regard, I've pulled together a program of 31 shorts that meet the criteria of Hooptober 12. With a couple of exceptions, all of the selections are under an hour, with many under 20 minutes.
(I took some slight liberties with the rules, as The Wizard of Oz '39 would be the longest by far, so I swapped in a same-decade animated short of the same material. Similarly, filmed shorts are not generally the best place for a novel adaptation, so some of the novel adaptations are from short stories, etc.)
Most of the shorts are on YouTube or Vimeo, and I've left links in the notes where I could.
There's a lot of overlap categories, so you have some options if you want to adapt this list for your own Hooptober watching.
Have fun!
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QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
9 decades
5 Zombie Films
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
1 Canadian film
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
1 The animals are pissed at us film
1 Silent film
4 based on Novels
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
1 film from 1932
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)
