🔪 31 days of October, 31* horror movies to watch — picking up Cinemonster’s gauntlet for the fifth(!) time! A bit heavier on the rewatches this time around but you know what, after this past year there’s nothing wrong with having a bit of a known quantity. Cinemonster’s guidelines still manage to push us out of our comfort zone enough to keep things interesting though.
As usual, I like to work through the list in release order — fun to watch the progression of the form and find some accidental themes and double-features along the way.
Joining me again this year is Vampire Nomad!
It me, VampireNomad! I’m honoured to return for my second round of Hooptober and this year’s…
🔪 31 days of October, 31* horror movies to watch — picking up Cinemonster’s gauntlet for the fifth(!) time! A bit heavier on the rewatches this time around but you know what, after this past year there’s nothing wrong with having a bit of a known quantity. Cinemonster’s guidelines still manage to push us out of our comfort zone enough to keep things interesting though.
As usual, I like to work through the list in release order — fun to watch the progression of the form and find some accidental themes and double-features along the way.
Joining me again this year is Vampire Nomad!
It me, VampireNomad! I’m honoured to return for my second round of Hooptober and this year’s line-up has me pretty excited. Some well deserved rewatches and some new titles I can’t wait to dive into!
Previously:
・ The only thing we have to fear, is Hoop-tober 4.O
・ To avoid fainting, keep repeating: “it’s only Hoop-tober 5 ...only Hoop-tober 5”
・ Who will survive, and what will be left of Hoop-tober 6(66)?
・ When there’s no more room in Hoop7ober, the dead will walk the earth
6 countries
1. France — Eyes Without a Face
2. Italy — The House by the Cemetery
3. South Korea — A Tale of Two Sisters
4. Australia — Triangle
5. Iran — A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
6. Canada — Blood Quantum
8 decades
1. ’50s — The Thing from Another World
2. ’60s — Eyes Without a Face
3. ’70s — The Blood on Satan’s Claw
4. ’80s — Altered States
5. ’90s — The People Under the Stairs
6. ’00s — King Kong
7. ’10s — Hereditary
8. ’20s — Possessor
2 Folk Horror films
1. The Blood on Satan’s Claw
2. The Witch
4 films from 1981
1. Omen III: The Final Conflict
2. Possession
3. The Burning
4. The House by the Cemetery
2 films from your birth year (1980/1975)
1. Altered States
2. Shivers
2 haunted house films
1. The Canal
2. The Entity
The worst “Part 2” sequel you haven’t seen and can access
1. From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1 film set in the woods
1. In the Earth
1 kaiju or Kong film
1. King Kong (2009)
2 Hammer films
1. Brides of Dracula
2. Dracula: Prince of Darkness
3 films with a PoC (non-Asian) director or lead
1. The People Under the Stairs
2. Blood Quantum
3. His House
3 Asian horror films
1. Train to Busan
2. Tokyo Vampire Hotel
3. One Cut of the Dead
1 Tobe Hooper film
1. Salem’s Lot
3 extra credit films
1. JD’s Revenge
2. The Skull
3. The Scooby-Doo Project
