My additional horror-related lists:
Horror films that gave me lingering anxiety
The grimiest films
Some of the scariest films according to LLMs // Scariest films according to science
16+ France // Censored France
My last Hooptober: "Fear in Flesh and Blood"
Bonus, a great list (and Letterboxd horror-member): Naughty's 5 Star Horror Films
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From the night of September 15th to October 31st, I will watch (and review, even if posted later) those 31 films in release order, except for my now yearly Halloween film on the 31st of the spooky month.
All films had to be tagged "horror" by Letterboxd/TMDB to be eligible for my list.
Here are the original rules used to create this year's list:
• There…
My additional horror-related lists:
Horror films that gave me lingering anxiety
The grimiest films
Some of the scariest films according to LLMs // Scariest films according to science
16+ France // Censored France
My last Hooptober: "Fear in Flesh and Blood"
Bonus, a great list (and Letterboxd horror-member): Naughty's 5 Star Horror Films
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From the night of September 15th to October 31st, I will watch (and review, even if posted later) those 31 films in release order, except for my now yearly Halloween film on the 31st of the spooky month.
All films had to be tagged "horror" by Letterboxd/TMDB to be eligible for my list.
Here are the original rules used to create this year's list:
• There must be 31 horror films from at least 9 decades and 6 countries (not counting USA or Italy), and one film can satisfy multiple criteria (here: 1920s, '30s, '40s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s, and 2020s; from the UK, Sweden, Mexico, Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Estonia, Taiwan, and the USA + Italy) ✓
• 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 I haven't seen ✓
• 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 I haven't seen ✓
• 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film ✓
• 1 film from 1932 ✓
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) --> this one breaks my rule of having only films tagged horror, so I picked the horror alternative instead
• And of course 1 Tobe Hooper film ✓
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My average rating for last Hooptober was 3.68★, ±0.2 more stars than the previous one!
Very little comedy this year, and less films strictly from me as I tried to have as much films fitting the rules as I could, meaning one rule for one film aside from countries and decades.
Some notes from my last Hooptober:
I really liked watching the entire Scream franchise, it was really.. soothing?
It's confirmed, I hate Giallo movies! But not all Italian horror films are bad; Cemetery Man is fantastic (watched it in English, most of the crew are English-speaking). And so far I've hated all the Indian horror films..
As expected, I was wrong about The Thing; it's a really great film. The 4K Arrow remaster is gorgeous.
Japanese horror films do scare me but not as extremely as I thought for Ju-on, even if it was pretty bad..
The cult classics are cult classics for a reason..!
Sorry Randy (from Scream), but sometimes the sequel IS better than the original. Who cares about Pamela Voorhees? What's the point of watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre without seeing a chainsaw for more than 10 minutes? And what about Evil Dead 2 or Dawn of the Dead, aren't they superior in every way?
