To be a fan is to scream alone together.
That's a quote from Hannah Ewens' book on female music fans, Fangirls. Anna Bogutskaya uses it in her essay "But Are You Really Into Horror?" to make a point about horror film fandom. Bogutskaya notes that we find our tribe not only by watching horror movies, but by sharing the experience with others. I love the way Cinemonster has created this communal experience that draws us all in and gets us all excited about each other's (often solitary) viewing experiences. It's part of a chain in which our enthusiasm for experiencing the art fulfills the art (because is a horror movie really a horror movie until a community of fans embraces…
To be a fan is to scream alone together.
That's a quote from Hannah Ewens' book on female music fans, Fangirls. Anna Bogutskaya uses it in her essay "But Are You Really Into Horror?" to make a point about horror film fandom. Bogutskaya notes that we find our tribe not only by watching horror movies, but by sharing the experience with others. I love the way Cinemonster has created this communal experience that draws us all in and gets us all excited about each other's (often solitary) viewing experiences. It's part of a chain in which our enthusiasm for experiencing the art fulfills the art (because is a horror movie really a horror movie until a community of fans embraces it in some way?) and fulfills each other. This is the place where we don't have to prove our right to be here. We participate in some way, any way, and we simply are here.
See Cinemonster's original list here.
This is my eighth time around! (earlier lists here, here, here, here, here, here and here). Last year it took me about three months. Let's see how it goes this year! Life is more complicated today than it was a year ago.
The tag for our reviews is Hooptober9 .
There must be 31 films (check!)
6 countries (Germany, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Australia, Spain)
8 decades (1920s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s. 2010s)
2 insect centered films (The Nest and Naked Lunch)
1 horror film set in space or the future (Lifeforce)
2 animated films (Coraline and Paranorman)
1 bloodthirsty old person film (Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte)
2 1970s regional US films (Creature from Black Lake and Squirm)
Worst horror sequel from the 1990s (Birds 2: Land's End)
1 German Silent (Hands of Orlac)
5 from Cronenberg (Naked Lunch), Ti West (Pearl), Bill Rebane (Giant Spider Invasion), Charles B. Pierce (The Town That Dreaded Sundown), William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr. (Creature from Black Lake)
2 Christopher Lee films (City of the Dead, Crypt of the Vampire)
1 film with a real-life musician in it (The Hunger)
1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around (Carrie 2013).
1 Lon Chaney film (The Unknown)
and 1 Tobe Hooper Film (Lifeforce)
