Hooptober 2021 List (First one!). All movies are first-time watches, normally don't review movies on the first watch but the event requires it so here we go.
Ordered by release date.
As always, my personal criteria of over 10k Letterboxd logs for each movie applies.
RULES: boxd.it/cDGlW
6 countries: ✔️
• Australia (Little Monsters)
• Canada (American Psycho, The Witch, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Candyman (2021))
• France (Possession, An American Werewolf in Paris, Inland Empire)
• Germany (Possession)
• Iceland (Lamb)
• Italy (The House by the Cemetery)
• Japan (Godzilla, House, Cure)
• Luxembourg (An American Werewolf in Paris)
• Netherlands (An American Werewolf in Paris)
• Poland (Inland Empire, Lamb)
• South Korea (The…
Hooptober 2021 List (First one!). All movies are first-time watches, normally don't review movies on the first watch but the event requires it so here we go.
Ordered by release date.
As always, my personal criteria of over 10k Letterboxd logs for each movie applies.
RULES: boxd.it/cDGlW
6 countries: ✔️
• Australia (Little Monsters)
• Canada (American Psycho, The Witch, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Candyman (2021))
• France (Possession, An American Werewolf in Paris, Inland Empire)
• Germany (Possession)
• Iceland (Lamb)
• Italy (The House by the Cemetery)
• Japan (Godzilla, House, Cure)
• Luxembourg (An American Werewolf in Paris)
• Netherlands (An American Werewolf in Paris)
• Poland (Inland Empire, Lamb)
• South Korea (The Host)
• Sweden (Midsommar, Lamb)
• UK (Dracula, The Mummy, An American Werewolf in London, Little Monsters)
• USA (The Wolf Man, Psycho, The Fog, The Funhouse, An American Werewolf in London, Swamp Thing, The Thing, Candyman (1992), An American Werewolf in Paris, The Blair Witch Project, American Psycho, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Inland Empire, It Follows, The Witch, Bone Tomahawk, Little Monsters, Midsommar, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Doctor Sleep, Old, Candyman (2021))
8 decades: ✔️
• 1940s (The Wolf Man)
• 1950s (Godzilla, Dracula, The Mummy)
• 1960s (Psycho)
• 1970s (House)
• 1980s (The Fog, The Funhouse, Possession, The House by the Cemetery, An American Werewolf in London, Swamp Thing, The Thing)
• 1990s (Candyman (1992), An American Werewolf in Paris, Cure, The Blair Witch Project)
• 2000s (American Psycho, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, The Host, Inland Empire)
• 2010s (It Follows, The Witch, Bone Tomahawk, Little Monsters, Midsommar, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Doctor Sleep)
• 2020s (Old, Candyman (2021))
2 folk horror: ✔️
• Candyman (1992)
• The Witch
• Midsommar
• Lamb
•Candyman (2021)
4 films from 1981: ✔️
• The Funhouse
• Possession
• The House by the Cemetery
• An American Werewolf in London
2 films from your birth year: ✔️
• An American Werewolf in Paris
• Cure
2 haunted house films: ✔️
• House
• The House by the Cemetery
1 worst Part 2 that you haven't seen and can access: ✔️
• An American Werewolf in Paris
• Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
1 film set in the woods: ✔️
• The Blair Witch Project
• Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
• The Witch
1 Kaiju or Kong film (not the new K v. G): ✔️
• Godzilla
2 Hammer films: ✔️
•Dracula
•The Mummy
3 films with a person of color as director or lead (excluding Asian): ✔️
• Little Monsters (Lupita Nyong'o - Lead)
• Old (M. Night Shyamalan - Director)
•Candyman (2021) (Nia DaCosta - Director)
3 Asian horror films: ✔️
• House
• Cure
• The Host
1 Tobe Hooper film: ✔️
• The Funhouse
I will update with which movies fit each criteria as I go through them.