9 Sept 2022 - 23 Aug 2023

Inspired by Squin's efforts last year. The challenge - catch up on all prior HoopTober challenges before HoopTober Ten arrives. Giving myself a year so I don't get too burnt out.

I completed Ocho and Neun! in previous years. That leaves #1-7.

One ~ 2.0 ~ 3.0 ~ 4.0 ~ Cinco ~ 6/6/6 ~ Se7en

I am not requiring the full 217 films (31x7) - only the various other requirements will be met, and one film can satisfy multiple criteria (with limits). No rewatches, unless that's the only way to meet a requirement. Feature films only (45+ min.). Aiming to watch the Extra Credit films as well.

✅Country✅
✅ 1: Four Countries: Italy, USA, Ireland, Belgium
✅ 2: Five Countries: Italy, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Spain
✅ 3: Six Countries: Italy, USA, Japan, UK, Ireland, Norway
✅ 4: Six Countries: USA, UK, Hong Kong, Austria, Mexico, Turkey
✅ 5: Six Countries: USA, UK, Norway, Canada, Italy, USSR
✅ 6: Six Countries: USA, UK, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay
✅ 7: Six Countries: USA, UK, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Czechoslovakia

✅ In Total (25/25): Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Canada (2), Czechoslovakia (1), Hong Kong (1), India (1), Ireland (2), Italy (9), Japan (4), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (4), Norway (2), Poland (1), South Africa (1), South Korea (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), UAE (1), UK (9), Uruguay (1), USA (54), USSR (1)

✅Year✅
✅ 1: Five Decades: 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
✅ 2: Five Decades: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, 2010s
✅ 3: Five Decades: 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s
✅ 4: Six Decades: 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s
✅ 5: Six Decades: 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 1920s, 1940s
✅ 6: Six Decades: 1980s, 1960s, 1950s, 1990s, 1940s, 1970s
✅ 7: Six Decades: 1980s, 1950s, 1990s, 1960s, 2020s, 2000s

In Total: 1920s (2), 1930s (3), 1940s (4), 1950s (5), 1960s (13), 1970s (15), 1980s (22), 1990s (16), 2000s (8), 2010s (9), 2020s (4)

✅ 2: Pre-1970 (5/5)
✅ 3: Pre-1970 (5/5)
✅ 4: Pre-1970 (6/6)
✅ 5: Pre-1970 (6/6)
✅ 5: Years ending in '8 (excluding 2018) (12/10)
✅ 6: Pre-1966 (6/6)
✅ 6: Years ending in '6 (9/6)
✅ 6: Lowest-rated film from the 1980s (1/1): Jaws: The Revenge
✅ 7: From 2020 (2/2): Cadaver, The Last Matinee
✅ 7: Highest-rated film from the 1950s (1/1) - In the Palm of Your Hand

✅Filmmakers✅
✅ 1: Five (5/5) from One Director: Freddie Francis (The Deadly Bees, Paranoic, Evil of Frankenstein, Nightmare, Torture Garden)
✅ 2: Five (5/5) from One Director: Antonio Margheriti (Horror Castle, Castle of Blood, Invasion of the Flesh Hunters, The Long Hair of Death, Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye)
✅ 3: Five (5/5) from Bava (Shock), Argento (Opera), Lenzi, Fulci (City of the Living Dead), Henenlotter (Brain Damage), Romero, Stuart Gordon (From Beyond)
✅ 3: One (3/1) from Stephen King (Thinner, The Mangler, Salem's Lot
✅ 4: Six (6/6) from Carpenter (Body Bags, Village of the Damned), Raimi, Whale, Browning (Mark of the Vampire), Craven (Vampire in Brooklyn), Tom Holland (Thinner, The Temp)
✅ 4: One Romero Dead: Survival of the Dead
✅ 5: Six (6/6) from Romero (Martin), Cronenberg (Rabid), Clive Barker (Rawhead Rex), Terence Fisher (The Mummy), Sergio Martino, Bill Lustig (Maniac Cop, Maniac Cop 2)
✅ 5: Two Female Directors: Karyn Kusama (Jennifer's Body), Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Evolution)
✅ 5: One featuring Barbara Crampton (From Beyond)
✅ 6: Six (6/6) featuring John Carl Buechler (Ghoulies), Jack Pierce (Rue Morgue, Transparent Man, Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man), Rob Bottin (Humanoids from the Deep), Screaming Mad George, Lon Chaney (The Penalty), and Carlo Rambaldi
✅ 6: Two Female Directors (5/2): Barbara Peeters (Humanoids from the Deep), Věra Chytilová (Wolf's Hole) , Amy Holden Jones (The Slumber Party Massacre), Agnieszka Smoczyńska (The Lure), Mattie Do (The Long Walk)
✅ 6: One from Larry Cohen (4/1) or Dick Miller: Q: The Winged Serpent, Maniac Cop, Maniac Cop 2, It Lives Again
✅ 6: One featuring Dee Wallace (Critters)
✅ 6: One Black Director or Predominately Black Cast (no Peele): Cliff Roquemore (Petey Wheatstraw)
✅ 6: One Mexican Director (no del Toro) (4/1): Alfonso Corona Blake (Santo vs. the Vampire Women), Roberto Gavaldón (In the Palm of Your Hand), Fernando de Fuentes (Phantom of the Convent), Carlos Enrique Taboada (Even the Wind is Afraid)
✅ 7: Two from a Black Director or Predominately Black Cast (2/2): Vampire in Brooklyn, Nope

✅ 1: Hooper (9/9): Eaten Alive, Invaders from Mars, Spontaneous Combustion, Body Bags, Night Terrors, The Mangler, Crocodile, Toolbox Murders, Dance of the Dead
✅ 2: Hooper (1/1): Mortuary
✅ 3: Hooper (1/1): The Damned Thing
✅ 4: Hooper (2/2): Djinn, Poltergeist
✅ 5: Hooper (2/2): Lifeforce, Dark Skies
✅ 6: Hooper (1/1): Salem's Lot
✅ 7: Hooper (1/1): The Apartment Complex

✅ Companies✅
✅ 3: Classic Universal (Murders in the Rue Morgue)
✅ 4: Hammer (Paranoic)
✅ 6: Classic Universal (Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man)
✅ 7: Hammer, non-Dracula (The Mummy, Evil of Frankenstein, Nightmare)

✅Series✅
✅ 2: Franchises (at least two franchises) (5/5): Santo, Critters, Jaws: The Revenge, Frankenstein (Hammer), Child's Play 3
✅ 3: Franchises (any combo) (7/7): Ghoulies, Maniac Cop, Bride of Chucky, Poltergeist, The Slumber Party Massacre, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Exorcist III
✅ 6: Sixth Film of a Franchise (1/1): Survival of the Dead
✅ 7: Second Film of Franchises (7/7): Child's Play 2, Critters 2, Maniac Cop 2, Ghoulies II, It Lives Again, Damien: Omen II, Psycho II

✅Theme✅
✅ 2: Slasher (9/5): Opera, Horrors of the Black Museum, Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, The Toolbox Murders, The Last Matinee, Toolbox Murders, Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes, Maniac Cop, Bride of Chucky
✅ 2: Monster (10/5): Critters, Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man, Rawhead Rex, Seventh Curse, Evil of Frankenstein, Humanoids from the Deep, Critters 2, Q: The Winged Serpent, Fiend Without a Face, Salem's Lot
✅ 3: Crazy Animal (3/3): Day of the Animals, Jaws: The Revenge, Crocodile
✅ 3: Silent (1/1): The Bells
✅ 3: Original + Remake (2/2): The Toolbox Murders, Toolbox Murders
✅ 3: Witchcraft (3/1): Thinner, Seventh Curse, Viy
✅ 4: People-Eating (Non-Zombie) (3/3): Cadaver, Invasion of the Flesh Hunters, Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
✅ 4: Highest-rated unseen film you can find (1/1): Demons
✅ 5: Flying Things That Kill You (4/2): The Deadly Bees, The Devil Bat, Q: The Winged Serpent, Nope
✅ 5: Silent (1/1): The Penalty
✅ 5: Aquatic Menace (5/1): Eaten Alive, Jaws: The Revenge, Humanoids from the Deep, Crocodile, The Lure
✅ 5: Inanimate Object Comes to Life (4/1): The Mummy, Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, Bride of Chucky
✅ 6: Reptile Rampage (2/1): Eaten Alive, Crocodile
✅ 6: Bad Day for the Men or Women of the Church (5/1): Killer Nun, Day of the Beast, The Wailing, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Exorcist III
✅ 7: Body Horror (10/4): Opera, Evolution, Horrors of Malformed Men, Thinner, Spontaneous Combustion, Body Bags, From Beyond, Brain Damage, Rabid, Gaia
✅ 7: Disease-Based (3/3): Brain Damage, Invasion of the Flesh Hunters, Rabid
✅ 7: Single Location (7/1): Lake of the Dead, Cadaver, Horror Castle, Ghoulies, Toolbox Murders, Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes, Even the Wind is Afraid
✅ 7: Invisible Person (1/1): Amazing Transparent Man
✅ 7: Features a Movie Theater (2/1): The Last Matinee, The Exorcist III

✅Extra Credit✅
✅ 3: Dead & Buried -> rewatched Gary Sherman's Lisa instead since this one I'd recently reviewed
✅ 3: The Old Dark House -> targeting the Castle version since I'd recently reviewed the one from 1932
✅ 4: It (mini-series) (rewatch)
✅ 4: It: Chapter One (rewatch)
✅ 4: It: Chapter Two (rewatch)
✅ 5: Tales From the Hood -> targeting TFTH 3 as I'd recently reviewed the original
✅ 5: Tales From the Hood 2
✅ 6: Horror Noire -> watching the anthology film since I'd recently watched the 2019 doc
✅ 6: Innocent Blood
✅ 7: The Witch Who Came from the Sea
✅ 7: Cube 2: Hypercube