Cinemonster's Hooptober Ocho / Spook-a-Doodle HalloweeNIT ’21

Hooptober Ocho: 39/39 - COMPLETED ✅
HalloweeNIT: 31/31 - COMPLETED ✅
Svengoolie Episodes: 13/26 - FAILED! ❌
Fran's SPOOKY BINGO: 36/36 - COMPLETED ✅

Challenge #1: Back for a second year to do Hooptober! Hooptober 7 was my first and opened an addictive door into Letterboxd scavenger hunts that I love.

Challenge #2:New this year I started running the 💀🧑‍💻Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club ’21👩‍💻💀, an 8 month tournament of randomly drawn movies from directors as an elaborate excuse to watch and discuss horror movies with friends each week. And since I'm a nutso I'm doing another month of it with directors who missed the cut - 🎃🧑‍💻Spook-a-Doodle HalloweeNIT ’21👩‍💻🎃.

Challenge #3: Back in May I made a late challenge to myself to get through Svengoolie episode on my DVR, but now I have a whole new backlog going back to May. I am unreliable on routine. But Svengoolie is very Halloween so I’m gonna do my best to get through the huge backlog on there now.

Challenge #4: The great film mind Franchescanado does challenges and this year is doing a Spooky Bingo with 36 possible squares. I'm just gonna be me and play at random and see how many squares I can fill.

Extra Stuff: Definitely bunch of other films new and old that I just want to watch or come across. Maybe some shows as palette cleansers? Definitely a bunch of films that make my list from other's reviews. I like to have an outline but I also like a little freedom. I am a conundrum.

The list is already crazy at over 100+ movies with another 15 to come for NIT. Changes will be made, movies will be added and deleted. I'll cross the challenges over to try and stay sane but gonna be a long and fun Halloween. Fingers crossed.

Hooptober prompts
✅ 6/6 countries: Eden Lake (UK); Hard Labor (Brazil); Alice (Czechoslovakia); Sea Fever (Ireland); Island of the Fishmen (Italy); Tumbbad (India)
✅ 8/8 decades: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1980s); Kiss of the Damned (2010s); Malignant (2020s); Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Producer’s Cut) (1990s); From Hell It Came (1950s); Horror Express (1970s); The Frozen Ghost (1940s); Versus (2000s)
✅ 2/2 folk horror: The Manor; The Blood on Satan's Claw
✅ 4/4 films from 1981: Hell Night; Evilspeak; Deadly Blessing; My Bloody Valentine
✅ 2/2 films from your birth year: Humanoids from the Deep; Alligator
✅ 2/2 haunted house films: Muppets Haunted Mansion; You Should Have Left
✅ The worst Part 2 that you haven't seen and can access. (I realize that this will take a little work): Bloodrayne 2: Deliverance
✅ 1 film set in the woods: The Company of Wolves
✅ 1 Kaiju or Kong film (not the new K v. G): King Kong Escapes
✅ 2/2 Hammer films: The Vampire Lovers; Scars of Dracula
✅ 3/3 films with a person of color as director or lead. (excluding Asian): Blood Moon; Spiral: From the Book of Saw; Black As Night
2/3 Asian horror films: Howling Village; The Complex;
✅ 1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): The Funhouse
✅ 3/3 EXTRA WORK: The Scooby Doo Project; The Skull; JD's Revenge