[Update: video of this list being made here!]
We are BACK, baby. I'm back for a fifth Hooptober and eager to celebrate the best time of the year on Letterboxd. My previous entries (XI, X, IX, & VIII) have introduced me to so many gems and helped me tick off long-standing watchlist items and this year will hopefully be no different.
Cinemonster's full introduction is here; the rules are below with the films that I have selected to satisfy them. As always for me, all of these are new watches (and subject to change until at least 15th Sep, possibly thereafter). Happy Hooptober all!
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
New…
[Update: video of this list being made here!]
We are BACK, baby. I'm back for a fifth Hooptober and eager to celebrate the best time of the year on Letterboxd. My previous entries (XI, X, IX, & VIII) have introduced me to so many gems and helped me tick off long-standing watchlist items and this year will hopefully be no different.
Cinemonster's full introduction is here; the rules are below with the films that I have selected to satisfy them. As always for me, all of these are new watches (and subject to change until at least 15th Sep, possibly thereafter). Happy Hooptober all!
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
New Zealand, Spain, Norway, Canada, Mexico, Estonia, UAE, UK, Sweden, France, Japan
9 decades
1920s, 30s, 40s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s
5 Zombie Films
Zombie Flesh Eaters, Braindead, [REC], Day of the Dead, I Walked with a Zombie
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
The Conspiracy, Society, The Invitation, All the Colours of the Dark
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
Ganja & Hess
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
Huesera: The Bone Woman
1 Canadian film
eXistenZ, The Conspiracy, Come True
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...
I Walked with a Zombie
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
The Crazies, I Am Legend
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
Come True
1 The animals are pissed at us film
The Grey
1 Silent film
The Phantom Carriage
4 based on Novels
Frankenstein, The Ritual, Eyes Without a Face, I Am Legend
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen
Ichi the Killer
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
All the Colors of the Dark
1 film from 1932
Freaks
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
The Wizard of Oz
And 1 Tobe Hooper film (there must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Eaten Alive
31/31!
