Started by Letterboxd user Cinemonster's in 2014, "Hooptober" (named for renowned horror director Tobe Hooper) is an annual viewing-challenge that encourages people to watch 31 horror movies from September 15th through Halloween that fit certain criteria... and here's the movies I picked out for 2021, my 5th time participating!
And since my family is moving into a big old house this month, it felt fitting to really lean into the "haunted house" theme this year - with seven films from that sub-genre.
Click "Read notes" to see which criteria each film qualifies for.
• Official Rules / (How Many I'm Doing) •
6 countries (7)
8 decades (9 x 2)
2 folk horror (3)
4 films from 1981 (4)
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Started by Letterboxd user Cinemonster's in 2014, "Hooptober" (named for renowned horror director Tobe Hooper) is an annual viewing-challenge that encourages people to watch 31 horror movies from September 15th through Halloween that fit certain criteria... and here's the movies I picked out for 2021, my 5th time participating!
And since my family is moving into a big old house this month, it felt fitting to really lean into the "haunted house" theme this year - with seven films from that sub-genre.
Click "Read notes" to see which criteria each film qualifies for.
• Official Rules / (How Many I'm Doing) •
6 countries (7)
8 decades (9 x 2)
2 folk horror (3)
4 films from 1981 (4)
2 films from your birth year (2)
2 haunted house films (7)
The worst "Part 2" that you haven't seen (3)
1 film set in the woods (2)
1 Kaiju or Kong film (not the new K v. G) (1)
2 Hammer films (2)
3 films with a person of color as director or lead. (excluding Asian) (4)
3 Asian horror films. (3)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Films (1)
BONUS: Watch JD'd Revenge, The Skull and The Scooby Doo Project (2)
My added rules:
All 31 are unseen.
1 extra film from each of the 8 decades.
The 3 remaining horror pictures I haven't seen from my BLOGFATHER list.
Films arranged in order of release date.
My #Hooptober Lists:
• 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025 •
