It is that time of the year once more. The weather is changing, the days are getting shorter and pumpkin spice is being added to everything. And with all of that comes the time I look forward to all year long.
Welcome to Hooptober Midnight: Because it's 12 o'clock somewhere.
Before I get into my list I want to send a huge thank you to our esteemed host "Cinemonster" for doing this. This will be my 4th year and I have been counting down the days for months now.
So with that taken care of here are my films for Hooptober 12.
Criteria:
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
- Canada
- Spain
- Brazil
- Mexico
- USSR…
It is that time of the year once more. The weather is changing, the days are getting shorter and pumpkin spice is being added to everything. And with all of that comes the time I look forward to all year long.
Welcome to Hooptober Midnight: Because it's 12 o'clock somewhere.
Before I get into my list I want to send a huge thank you to our esteemed host "Cinemonster" for doing this. This will be my 4th year and I have been counting down the days for months now.
So with that taken care of here are my films for Hooptober 12.
Criteria:
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
- Canada
- Spain
- Brazil
- Mexico
- USSR
- Argentina
- Japan
9 decades
- 20's
- 30's
- 40's
- 50's
- 60's
- 70's
- 80's
- 90's
- 00's
- 2010's
- 2020's
5 Zombie Films
- Pontypool (2008)
- Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
- Wild Zero (1999)
- Blood Quantum (2019)
- Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
- The Sacrament (2013)
- The Other Lamb (2019)
- The Void (2016)
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
- Blackula (1972)
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
1 Canadian film
- Ravenous (2017)
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
- Viy (1967)
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
- The Body Snatcher (1945)
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
- Dead End Drive-In (1986)
- Carriers (2009)
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- Dreamscape (1984)
1 The animals are pissed at us film
- Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
1 Silent film
- The Phantom Carriage (1921)
4 based on Novels
- The Keep (1983)
- The Monkey (2025)
- Eyes without a face (1960)
- Pulse (2002)
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
- Dreamscape (1984)
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- All the colors of the dark (1972)
1 film from 1932
- Freaks (1932)
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) - This one was hard to pick....
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
- Eaten Alive (1976)