HOOPTOBER YEAR 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!! 31 movies, let's do it!
i actually logged most of my must-watch zombie films over the course of the last year, so i elected to go for some silly-goofy headliners to spice up what is otherwise a smorgasbord of 'how-have-i-not-seen-this?!'-tier classics. 90-10 ratio of new watches to revisits, i'll be using this year's challenge to really catch up on my horror history!
6 Countries (other than Italy or US):
✅ China — Kung Fu Zombie (1981)
South Korea — Seoul Station (2016)
✅ Germany — Rumours (2024)
✅ United Kingdom — The Wicker Man (1973)
Mexico — Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
✅ Japan — Dark Water (2002)
✅ + Canada — Grave Encounters (2011)
✅ +…
HOOPTOBER YEAR 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!! 31 movies, let's do it!
i actually logged most of my must-watch zombie films over the course of the last year, so i elected to go for some silly-goofy headliners to spice up what is otherwise a smorgasbord of 'how-have-i-not-seen-this?!'-tier classics. 90-10 ratio of new watches to revisits, i'll be using this year's challenge to really catch up on my horror history!
6 Countries (other than Italy or US):
✅ China — Kung Fu Zombie (1981)
South Korea — Seoul Station (2016)
✅ Germany — Rumours (2024)
✅ United Kingdom — The Wicker Man (1973)
Mexico — Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
✅ Japan — Dark Water (2002)
✅ + Canada — Grave Encounters (2011)
✅ + Soviet Union — Viy (1967)
9 Decades:
1920s — Faust (1926)
✅ 1930s — The Mummy (1932), The Wizard of Oz (1939)
✅ 1940s — The Wolf Man (1941)
✅ 1960s — Crypt of the Vampire (1964), Viy (1967), Rosemary's Baby (1968)
✅ 1970s — Frogs (1972), The Exorcist (1973), The Wicker Man (1973), Jaws (1975),
———— The House With the Laughing Windows (1976)
1980s — Altered States (1980) ✅, An American Werewolf in London (1981) ✅, Kung Fu
———— Zombie (1981) ✅, Night of the Comet (1984) ✅, Trick or Treat (1986), Prince of
———— Darkness (1987), Spontaneous Combustion (1989) ✅
2000s — American Psycho (2000) ✅, Dark Water (2002) ✅, Pan's Labyrinth (2006),
———— Let the Right One In (2008)
2010s — Grave Encounters (2011) ✅, Berberian Sound Studio (2012) ✅, 10 Cloverfield
———— Lane (2016), Seoul Station (2016), Train to Busan (2016)
2020s — His House (2020) ✅, Glorious (2022), Rumours (2024) ✅, Opus (2025) ✅,
———— Frankenstein (2025) ✅
5 Zombie Films — Kung Fu Zombie ✅, Seoul Station, Train to Busan, Rumours ✅, Night of the Comet ✅
✅ 3 cult or conspiracy horror films — Rosemary's Baby, The Wicker Man, Opus
✅ 1 Black director & Black lead — His House, dir. Remi Weekes
1 Mexican or Central American director — Pan's Labyrinth AND Frankenstein (2025) ✅, dir. Guillermo del Toro [TICKETS BOOKED!!]
✅ 1 Canadian film — Grave Encounters
✅ 1 former Soviet state film — Viy
✅ Most popular 1940s film that you haven't seen & can access — The Wolf Man
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films — 10 Cloverfield Lane, Prince of Darkness
✅ 1 film with dreams/a dream in the plot — An American Werewolf in London
✅ 1 "the animals are pissed at us" film — Frogs
1 silent film — Faust
4 based on novels — Altered States ✅, The Exorcist ✅, American Psycho ✅, Let the Right One In
✅ 1 unseen film from this list — Dark Water
✅ 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film — Crypt of the Vampire
✅ 1 film from 1932 — The Mummy
✅ Wizard of Oz '39 — The Wizard of Oz
✅ 1 Tobe Hooper film — Spontaneous Combustion
+ for 31 — Glorious, The House With Laughing Windows ✅, Berberian Sound Studio ✅, Jaws (50th anniversary!) ✅
++ for bonus points: Trick or Treat (1986)
EDITS:
The Road (2009) —> Prince of Darkness (1987), needed something less bleak
