A chill in the air, crisp leaves underfoot, pumpkins appearing on stoops (and in coffee), a mass of great people flocking to Letterboxd to take part in Hoop-Tober; i.e., the best damn time of the year.
My ninth year doing this, and I look forward to it more and more each passing year. As I've done in every Hoop-Tober since #2, every movie will be a first time watch (with the occasional seasonal favorite strewn in here and there).
QUICK EASY RULES:
6 countries (USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland) [6/6]
8 decades (1920's, 1940’s, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's,
2010's, 2020's) [8/8]
2 insect centered films [Complete!]
-Mosquito (1994)
-Big Ass Spider! (2013)
1 horror film set in space or…
A chill in the air, crisp leaves underfoot, pumpkins appearing on stoops (and in coffee), a mass of great people flocking to Letterboxd to take part in Hoop-Tober; i.e., the best damn time of the year.
My ninth year doing this, and I look forward to it more and more each passing year. As I've done in every Hoop-Tober since #2, every movie will be a first time watch (with the occasional seasonal favorite strewn in here and there).
QUICK EASY RULES:
6 countries (USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland) [6/6]
8 decades (1920's, 1940’s, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's,
2010's, 2020's) [8/8]
2 insect centered films [Complete!]
-Mosquito (1994)
-Big Ass Spider! (2013)
1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released) [Complete!]
-Creature (1985)
2 animated films [Complete!]
-Mad God (2021)
-The House (2022)
1 bloodthirsty old person/people film [Complete!]
-The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
2 1970s regional US films (Thanks Sean Young) [Complete!]
-Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
-Squirm (1976)
The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access. (I realize that this will take a little work) [Complete!]
-Howling: New Moon Rising (1995)
1 German Silent [Complete!]
-The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)
5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr. [4/5]
-Creature from Black Lake (1976)
-The Evictors (1979)
-The Demons of Ludlow (1983)
-Crimes of the Future (2022)
-Pearl (2022)
2 Christopher Lee films [Complete!]
-Taste of Fear (1961)
-Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
1 film with a musician or band in it [Complete!]
-Rocktober Blood (1984)
1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around [Complete!]
-The Shining (1980)
1 Lon Chaney film [Complete!]
-Universal Horror (1998)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) [Complete!]
-I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Last Circus and Silent Madness. Like last year, there is a third film: Pennywise: The Story of It. [2/3]
****This years surprise: The IT doc is on Screambox. Screambox peeps gave us Hooptober folks a code for a free trial. Everyone can watch the doc, if they want to.
The code is HOOPTOBER and you can sign up HERE
There is a lot of cool stuff on Screambox (including Terrifier 2), so enjoy. 🤡
-review them all.(eek)
Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.