I thought last year was going to be my last Hooptober after I emptied out my watchlist of horror movies. Little did I suspect at the time that I would decide to try to complete watching all 1000 movies on the They Shoot Zombies, Don’t They? list this year. So since I'm trying to do that anyway, time for one more spooky season.
1 Tobe Hooper film: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
13 of 6 countries: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, UK, USA
8 of 8 decades: Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Aughts, Teens, Twenties
5 of 2 folk horrors: Cry of the Banshee, Eyes of Fire, A Field in England, The Texas Chain…
I thought last year was going to be my last Hooptober after I emptied out my watchlist of horror movies. Little did I suspect at the time that I would decide to try to complete watching all 1000 movies on the They Shoot Zombies, Don’t They? list this year. So since I'm trying to do that anyway, time for one more spooky season.
1 Tobe Hooper film: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
13 of 6 countries: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, UK, USA
8 of 8 decades: Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Aughts, Teens, Twenties
5 of 2 folk horrors: Cry of the Banshee, Eyes of Fire, A Field in England, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Witchfinder General
8 of 4 films from 1981: The Appointment, Bloody Parrot, Eyes of a Stranger, Graduation Day, Madman, Night School, Possession, Student Bodies
3 of 2 films from your birth year (1978): Beauty and the Beast, Empire of Passion, The Mafu Cage
3 of 2 haunted house films: Cold Prey, The Innocents, The Stone Tape
The worst Part 2 that you haven't seen: The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
3 of 1 films set in the woods: Eyes of Fire, Madman, Rituals
1 of 1 Kaiju or Kong films: Pacific Rim
2 of 2 Hammer films: The Nanny, The Satanic Rites of Dracula
6 of 3 films with a PoC as director or lead: Black Pit of Dr. M, Blood Quantum, Cemetery of Terror, His House, Poison for the Fairies, Sugar Hill
7 of 3 Asian horror films: Angel Dust, Curse of the Inugami, The Forest of Love, Guinea Pig 6: Mermaid in the Manhole, Memento Mori, Sadako vs. Kayako, Satan’s Slaves
EXTRA CREDIT: J.D.'s Revenge, The Skull, The Scooby-Doo Project