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Hooptober XII: Bloodline

The time between Hooptober seasons feels longer each year. I've been at this for 8 years, but its never felt as vital or timely as this year. A celebration of horror films is the essence of life in hard times.
In that sense, the title of my list is not only a tribute to Hellraiser: Bloodline, but a representation of what horror means to me and the genre itself. Blood is one of the oldest, maybe even first, iconic element in horror. Films in particular gave it life through thick and thin splatters and sprays, watery reds and deep syrupy maroons, overt and implied bloodletting. Blood can sustain and drown, engulfing heroes to their eyes or starving villains to dust.…

  • The Blood Spattered Bride

    1

  • Alucarda

    2

  • Viy

    3

  • The Conspiracy

    4

  • Bloody Mallory

    5

  • Corpse Mania

    6

  • Dante's Inferno

    7

  • Freaks

    8

  • I Walked with a Zombie

    9

  • Bloody Moon

    10

  • Blood Games

    11

  • Camp Blood: The Musical

    12

  • Night of the Zombies

    13

  • Demons

    14

  • Night of the Living Dead

    15

  • Blood Quantum

    16

  • Night Terrors

    17

  • Brotherhood of the Wolf

    18

  • Bones

    19

  • Deranged

    20

  • Spider

    21

  • Dead End Drive-In

    22

  • The Long Walk

    23

  • Dead of Night

    24

  • Hellraiser: Bloodline

    25

  • Dream Eater

    26

  • Roar

    27

  • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

    28

  • Books of Blood

    29

  • Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

    30

  • The Wizard of Oz

    31

  • The German Chainsaw Massacre

    32

  • Night of the Eagle

    33