So, it's Hooptober again, thanks to Cinemonster, looks nice... though a bit too US centric for my taste this time. Tried to vary it as much as possible with my own "just for fun" picks.
My choices are both my own solo picks and also films my friends have chosen for our October horror movie nights.
Rules:
- There must be 31 films (check, has too many)
- 6 countries (has 27: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Tibet (China), United Kingdom, United States)
- 8 decades (has 11 from 1920 to 2021)
- 2 insect centered films (The Hellstrom Chronicle…
So, it's Hooptober again, thanks to Cinemonster, looks nice... though a bit too US centric for my taste this time. Tried to vary it as much as possible with my own "just for fun" picks.
My choices are both my own solo picks and also films my friends have chosen for our October horror movie nights.
Rules:
- There must be 31 films (check, has too many)
- 6 countries (has 27: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Tibet (China), United Kingdom, United States)
- 8 decades (has 11 from 1920 to 2021)
- 2 insect centered films (The Hellstrom Chronicle and Centipede Horror)
- 1 horror film set in space or the future (Planet of the Vampires)
- 2 animated films (check, has four)
- 1 bloodthirsty old person/people film (Phantasm)
- 2 1970s regional US films (has 3: The Blob, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Phantasm)
- The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access (Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III)
- 1 German Silent (Genuine)
- 5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr. (check)
- 2 Christopher Lee films (Count Dracula and Cuadecuc, Vampir)
- 1 film with a real life musician or band in it (The Hunger)
- 1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around (Trucks)
- 1 Lon Chaney film (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- 1 Tobe Hooper Film) (Eggshells: not a horror film, but it's a Tobe Hooper film, so fuck it)
Extras: The Last Circus (not watching this one as I've already seen it and it's fun but nothing special) and Silent Madness (okay). Like last year, there is a third film: Pennywise: The Story of It (I'm not watching a film someone tries to use to commercialize Hooptober and is about a clown character that shouldn't interest anyone so I'll pass, thanks).
The films are in the the order I watched them.
Ranked (not including rewatches):
Jonathan ****½
The Wolf House ****½
Snow Woman ****½
Mad Love ****
Eggshells ****
The Day of the Beast ****
Cuadecuc, vampir ****
The Devil's Nightmare ****
Mother Joan of Angels ****
Lake Mungo ****
Mad God ****
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes ****
Phantasm ***½
Tilbury ***½
Death Powder ***½
The Hunter and the Skeleton ***½
The Dead Zone ***½
Nekromantik ***½
Whistle and I'll Come to You ***½
Nocturne 29 ***½
The Hellstrom Chronicle ***½
Planet of the Vampires ***
Sundelbolong ***
The Brain That Wouldn't Die ***
The Legend of Boggy Creek ***
Lake of the Dead ***
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ***
A Field in England ***
Rodan **½
Blood Harvest **½
The Blob **½
Count Dracula **½
Silent Madness **½
Beyond the Darkness **
Ismail Yassine and the House of Ghosts **
Dark Angel: The Ascent **
Two Monks **
Trucks *½
Whiskey Mountain *½
The Python *½
They Saved Hitler's Brain *
RoboGeisha *
Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong *
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III *
Shopping Tour *
