So I took a year off. Big whoop. You writin’ a book, hippie?

This voodoo that we do I ain’t done in too dang long. Been neglecting this muscle. My writing about movies because I love it brain muscle. I miss this brain. Gotta get back in the saddle, pard. Back in the saddle.

Howdeh. 🤠

My beautiful honeycrunch contributed half the picks for this Hooptober the 12th, but I’ll be the only one writin’ up the business on ‘em. It’s sure gonna be helluva wrastlin’ rascal time having him directly involved with ‘round half the rough & rugged roundup of films this year! Hooo-eee!

And just because I don’t know where it came from myself while I write this - no, I have no actual reason to be all Goofy Old West here. Maybe because I moved from Chicago to Portland and am now officially an 1860s gunslinger due to being not midWestern anymore but now more fullWestern. Or something. Just feelin’ it like chicory in mah black-as-death campfire coffee, you dirty son of a desert dog! 💀

It’s just. Plain. Fun.

So then you got-dang Cowboils & Cowghouls, it’s time to get this rootin’ tootin’ bleedin’ & bootin’ rodeo a-rollin’! Yee-fuckin-haw! 

• 31 FILMS ✅ [32]
• 6 COUNTRIES - NOT ITALY OR THE USA ✅ [20|21]
  Belgium
    The Passion of Darkly Noon ❌ 
  Canada
    The Dead Zone ❌ 
  Denmark
    Häxan
  France
    Death Walks on High Heels
    // La morte cammina con i tacchi alti ❌ 
    Despite the Night // Malgré la nuit ❌ 
  Germany
    The German Chainsaw Massacre
    // Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker ❌ 
    The Passion of Darkly Noon ❌ 
  Greece
    Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse
    // Singapore Sling: Ο Άνθρωπος που Αγάπησε
    ένα Πτώμα ❌ 
  Hong Kong
    Witch from Nepal // 奇緣 ❌ 
  India
    Manichitrathazhu // മണിച്ചിത്രത്താഴ് ❌ 
  Italy
    Death Walks on High Heels
    // La morte cammina con i tacchi alti ❌ 
  Japan
    Cure // キュア ❌ 
    The Living Skeleton // 吸血髑髏船 ❌ 
    Yellow Fangs // リメインズ 美しき勇者たち ❌ 
  Russia
    Night Watch // Ночной Дозор ❌ 
  South Africa
    The Empty Man ❌ 
  South Korea
    #Alive // #살아있다 ❌ 
  Spain
    Death Walks on High Heels
    // La morte cammina con i tacchi alti ❌ 
  Sweden
    Häxan ❌ 
  United Kingdom
    Burn, Witch, Burn ❌ 
    Death Walks on High Heels
    // La morte cammina con i tacchi alti ❌ 
  United States
    The Blackening ❌ 
    The Dead Zone ❌ 
    Dreamaniac ❌ 
    The Empty Man ❌ 
    Halloween ❌ 
    Halloween Kills ❌ 
    Halloween Ends ❌ 
    I Walked with a Zombie ❌ 
    The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977/1996) ❌ 
    The Passion of Darkly Noon ❌ 
    The Seventh Victim ❌
    Unhinged ❌ 
    The Wizard of Oz ❌ 
9 DECADES ✅ [10]
    1920s
    1930s
    1940s
    1960s
    1970s
    1980s
    1990s
    2000s
    2010s
    2020s
5 ZOMBIE FILMS [4]
    #Alive // #살아있다 ❌ 
    I Walked with a Zombie ❌ 
    The Living Skeleton // 吸血髑髏船 ❌ 
    Witch from Nepal // 奇緣 ❌
3 CULT OR CONSPIRACY HORROR FILMS ✅
    The Empty Man ❌ 
    Häxan ❌ 
    The Seventh Victim ❌ 
1 FILM FROM A BLACK DIRECTOR WITH A BLACK LEAD ✅
    The Blackening ❌ 
1 FILM FROM A MEXICAN OR CENTRAL AMERICAN DIRECTOR [0]
    ❌ 
1 CANADIAN FILM ✅
    The Dead Zone ❌ 
1 FORMER SOVIET STATE FILM [0]
    ❌ 
THE MOST POPULAR FILM FROM THE 1940s THAT YOU HAVEN’T SEEN AND HAVE ACCESS TO ✅ [2]
    I Walked with a Zombie ❌ 
    The Seventh Victim ❌ 
2 POST-APOCALYPTIC HORROR FILMS [1]
    #Alive // #살아있다 ❌
1 FILM WITH DREAMS OR A DREAM AS PART OF THE PLOT ✅
    Dreamaniac ❌ 
1 ‘THE ANIMALS ARE PISSED AT US’ FILM ✅
    Yellow Fangs // リメインズ 美しき勇者たち ❌ 
1 SILENT FILM ✅
    Häxan ❌ 
4 FILMS BASED ON NOVELS ✅ [5(6?)]
    The Dead Zone ❌ 
    The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977/1996) ❌ 
    Night Watch // Ночной Дозор ❌ 
    Witch from Nepal // 奇緣 ❌ 
    The Wizard of Oz ❌ 
ANY FILM FROM THIS LIST THAT YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ✅
    The German Chainsaw Massacre
    // Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker ❌ 
1 ERNESTO GASTALDI WRITTEN FILM ✅ 
    Death Walks on High Heels
    // La morte cammina con i tacchi alti ❌ 
1 FILM FROM 1932 ✅
    The Mummy ❌ 
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) ✅ 
1 TOBE HOOPER FILM ✅ 
    Eaten Alive ❌ 

BONUS

Burn, Witch, Burn (Night of the Eagle) ❌ 
The German Chainsaw Massacre
// Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker ❌ 
Ragman (Trick or Treat) ❌ 
Unhinged ❌ 


Halloween ❌ 
Halloween Kills ❌ 
Halloween Ends ❌ 

My Prior Hooptoberonis:

Hooptober X 2023
Hooptober IX 2022
Hooptober VIII 2021
Hooptober VII 2020
Hooptober VI 2019

Eternal thanks to Cinemonster for hosting this gloriously ghoulish challenge for a dozen dang years! 🥳

Cinemonster’s Master List

*many reviews from this year are short, and you may notice I did not meet all the criteria this year, as life happens and I simply don’t currently have much time or energy to give to reviewing films.


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