The Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament and Movie Club is a yearly thing I and some friends do where we put together teams of horror directors, through them in a massive tournament together, and spend the year drawing random films and burning through them until we get a champion.
The 2026 Tournament is soon to begin.. You can find the drawn films and past tournaments and tons of other information on the spreadsheet. All are welcome to take part. This is the master list of all the films we've drawn and voted on in the past tournaments and who have either won or lost on their path to be champion.
2025 Champion: mbd’s Mostly Japanese Ghost Cats! (Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Tokuzō Tanaka, and…
The Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament and Movie Club is a yearly thing I and some friends do where we put together teams of horror directors, through them in a massive tournament together, and spend the year drawing random films and burning through them until we get a champion.
The 2026 Tournament is soon to begin.. You can find the drawn films and past tournaments and tons of other information on the spreadsheet. All are welcome to take part. This is the master list of all the films we've drawn and voted on in the past tournaments and who have either won or lost on their path to be champion.
2025 Champion: mbd’s Mostly Japanese Ghost Cats! (Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Tokuzō Tanaka, and Bin Kato)
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit, The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing. Haunted Castle, The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond, The Snow Woman, and The Demon of Mount Oe
2025 HalloweeNIT Champion: Andy Milligan
The Ghastly Ones, The Weirdo, Guru, the Mad Monk, Legacy of Blood, and The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
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2024 Champion: Wes Craven
A Nightmare on Elm Street, Deadly Friend, Invitation to Hell. The Serpent and The Rainbow. Scream 2. My Soul To Take. Scream, and Chiller.
2024 HalloweeNIT Champion: mbd's Mostly Japanese Ghost Cats
(Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Tokuzō Tanaka, and Bin Kato)
The Snow Woman, White-haired Demon. The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing. Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit, and The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond.
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2023 Champion: John Carpenter
Pro-Life, Vampires, They Live, Someone's Watching Me, Assault on Precinct 13 , Halloween, The Ward, and Village of the Damned
2023 HalloweeNIT Champion: married but discreet's Older Than America
(Jeff Barnaby, Nyla Innuksuk, Hellen Haig-Brown & Gwaai Edenshaw, Tracey Moffat, and Georgina Lightning)
Older Than America; Rhymes for Young Ghouls; Blood Quantum; Bedevil; and Slash/Back
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2022 Champion: twernt's Spooky Swinging Sixties (Herk Harvey, Brunello Rondi, Masaki Kobayashi, Ingmar Bergman, Terence Young, and Elio Petri)
A Quiet Place in the Country. Kwaidan. Hour of the Wolf, Persona, The Demon, and Carnival of Souls
2022 HalloweeNIT Champion: Darthemed's Sumptuously Stupid (Michael Rymer, David S. Goyer, Tarsem Singh, Steve Beck, Fran Rubel Kuzui, Sylvain White, and Jan de Bont)
The Haunting. Queen of the Damned. Ghost Ship. The Cell, amd Slender Man
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2021 Champion: MacheteZombie’s The One n Dones (Charles Laughton, Kathryn Bigelow, Bill Gunn, James Bond III, Na Hong-jin, & Lesley Manning)
Ghostwatch, Near Dark, Night of the Hunter, Ganja ’N Hess, The Wailing, and Def By Temptation
2021 HalloweeNIT Champion: Roy Ward Baker
Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, The Vault of Horror, The Vampire Lovers, Scars of Dracula, and Asylum
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2020 Champion: Ken Russell
The Devils, Altered States, Gothic, and Lair of the White Worm
Spreadsheet
Season 0: Horror Franchise March Madness
Season 1: Horror Director Bracketology 2020
Season 2: Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club ’21 / HalloweeNIT '21
Season 3: Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club ’22 / HalloweeNIT '22
Season 4: Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club ’23 / HalloweeNIT '23
Season 5: Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club ’24 / HalloweeNIT '24
Season 6: Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club ’25 / HalloweeNIT '25
Teams
All Hail Stephen King
Around the World With Bracketology
Bracketology Redux
Back to the Drive-In
Bless the Visual Artists
But what I really want to do is direct.
Cats In The Cradle
Christopher Landon's Paranormal Teamup
Dit is geen hel, dit is Nederland
Do We Have to Stay for the Whole Drive-In Double Feature?
Dracula.co.jp
Dracula.co.jp Revival
The Enemies of Horror
Goat Gets Grimey
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Horror Noire
K-Horror not directed by Bong Joon-ho or Park Chan-wook
Knockoffs of the Living Dead
Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix
Ladies Night
The Losers Club
Low-Budget But Lovable
Lucky McKee and Friends
The Magical Muppet Wizardry of Jim Henson (and Friends)
Partially Public
The REC Dudes (Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza)
The Silver Spoons
Sumptuously Stupid
Tamil Terrors
Team Australian Aberration
Team Bad Taste / Relationships Are Hard
Team Cream Clots
Team Curse of the Anime
Team Cute Surprises
Team Desperation Boils Over
Team Doubles
Team Drowning In Atmosphere
Team Funnyman
Team Funnyman (2023)
Team Gems from the Video Store
Team Killer Jobs
Team K🖕ng
Team Metro Noir Horror Anime
Team Spirit Warrior Plus
Team Sumptuously Stupid (2023)
Team Tomie (And Pals)
Team Tomie (And Pals) (2023)
Team Universal
Team Working for the Weekend
Team The World Ends in Anime
Team YA
The One n Not Dones
There’s Something About the Military-Industrial Authority Complex
The Vicious Bros (Those Guys Who Made Grave Encounters)
Well, The Poster/Box Looked Good!
Wyrd Woods and Macabre Magick
Scream Queens