Or, the year I actually finish the whole damn list and review everything, hopefully. Life has gotten in my way quite a bit when I've done previous Hooptobers, but this year I'll be watching with my boyfriend and surely it will give us a reprieve from the outside world for all of October. I'll likely begin watching in late September.
Not in any particular watch order on my list, I'll likely just pick and choose depending on the day.
This year's original outline list by Cinemonster is here: The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman
Some of mine are rewatches that I really want my boyfriend to see, but 26/34 are new to me. I ended up combining too…
Or, the year I actually finish the whole damn list and review everything, hopefully. Life has gotten in my way quite a bit when I've done previous Hooptobers, but this year I'll be watching with my boyfriend and surely it will give us a reprieve from the outside world for all of October. I'll likely begin watching in late September.
Not in any particular watch order on my list, I'll likely just pick and choose depending on the day.
This year's original outline list by Cinemonster is here: The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman
Some of mine are rewatches that I really want my boyfriend to see, but 26/34 are new to me. I ended up combining too many things and I was five ish short to 31, so I padded it out with one extra cult-oriented horror film and like four extra written by Ernesto Gastaldi films, as a couple of his I have on here are in my top ten most loved giallo films.
The rules as I filled them in:
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US) 🎃
1. Japan
2. New Zealand
3. Argentina
4. Canada
5. UK
6. France
7. Latvia
8. Germany
9. USSR
10. Switzerland
11. Spain
12. South Korea
13. Ireland
9 decades 🎃
1. 2020's
2.2010's
3. 2000's
4 1990's
5. 1980's
6. 1970's
7.1960's
8. 1940's
9. 1930's
5 Zombie Films 🎃
1. One Cut of the Dead (Japan) 2017 (1)
2. Braindead (New Zealand) 1992 (2)
3. Evil Dead 1981 (3) (rewatch)
4. Evil Dead 2 1987 (4) (rewatch)
5. The Living Dead Girl (France) 1982 (5)
3 cult or conspiracy horror films 🎃
1. The Brood 1979 (6) Canada
2. The Conspiracy 2012 (7) Canada
3. A Classic Horror Story 2021 (8) Italy
4. Them That Follow US 2019 (9)
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead🎃
1. Us 2019 (10) US (rewatch)
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director🎃
1. Terrified 2017 Argentina (11) (rewatch)
1 Canadian film🎃
1. Dead Ringers 1988 Canada (12)
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)🎃
1. Spider Latvia 1992 (13)
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access🎃
1. Dead of Night 1945 UK (14)
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films🎃
1. A Visitor to a Museum 1989 Germany/USSR/Switzerland
2. Jigoku 1960 Japan (15)
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot🎃
The City of Lost Children 1995 France/Germany/Spain/UK (16)
1 The animals are pissed at us film🎃
The Host 2006 South Korea (17)
1 Silent film🎃
1. The Call of Cthulhu US 2005 (18)
4 based on Novels🎃
1. Images US/UK/Ireland 1972 (19)
2. Wolfen US 1981 (20)
3. Sharp Objects US/Canada 2018 (21)
4. The Dark Secret of Harvest Home US 1978 (miniseries) (22)
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.🎃
1. Cure Japan 1997 (23)
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film🎃
1. The Whip and the Body Italy 1963 (24)
2. All the Colors of the Dark Italy 1972 (25) (rewatch)
3. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Ward Italy 1971 (26) (rewatch)
4. Death Walks At Midnight Italy 1972 (27)
5. The Case of the Scorpion's Tail Italy 1971 (28)
1 film from 1932🎃
1. Freaks US 1932 (29) (rewatch)
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ (1939) (30) (rewatch)🎃
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)🎃
1. Lifeforce UK 1985 (31)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK:
—Burn Witch Burn
—German Chainsaw Massacre
—Trick or Treat (1986) (rewatch)
