It's that time again, time for spookies and scaries and oh so many movies in the form of the annual Letterboxd HoopTober Challenge!!! What is HoopTober? Well, read this post from creator CineMonster to get all the details on this year's challenge: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-neun-from-outer-space/

Per usual, I started my Watchathon on October 1st and went until Halloween evening. This year I achieved a new personal best: 73 movies for the month! My eyes are tired!! As for the Hooptober Challenges, this was my 8th go-around and as always, all challenges were accomplished with great aplomb:

- 6 countries: (8) USA, UK, Canada, Italy, France, Spain, Mexico, Chile
- 8 decades: (11) 1920s-2020s
- 2 insect centered films: (3) The Nest, Ticks, Kingdom of the Spiders
- 1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released): (2) Creature, Galaxy of Terror
- 2 animated films: The Wolf House, Monster House
- 1 bloodthirsty old person/people film: Homebodies
- 2 1970s regional US films: (4) Creature from Black Lake, Impulse, Homebodies, Asylum of Satan
- The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access: Trucks
- 1 German Silent: Nosferatu
- 5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.: (6) The Roost, The Innkeepers, X, Death Curse of Tartu, Impulse, Creature from Black Lake
- 2 Christopher Lee films: The Bloody Judge, To the Devil a Daughter
- 1 film with a musician or band in it (A real life musician or band): We Need to Do Something (has an Ozzy voice cameo)
- 1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around: Trucks
- 1 Lon Chaney film. (NOT JR): The Unknown

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): (2) Mortuary, Spontaneous Combustion

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39 of the 73 films watched were first time viewings, of those, these 8 were my favorite film discovers of the month:
To the Devil a Daughter
Depraved
The Nest
The Unknown
The Wolf House
Beyond Dreams Door
Winterbeast
Impulse

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Check out my HoopTober 2.0 list HERE: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-20-october-2015/

HoopTober 3.0 HERE: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-30-october-2016/

HoopTober 4.0 HERE: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-40-october-2017/

HoopTober 5.0 HERE: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-50-october-2018/

HoopTober 666 HERE: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-666-october/

HoopTober 7.0 HERE: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-part-vii-october/

HoopTober 8.0 HERE: letterboxd.com/nathanwest/list/31-days-of-horror-hoop-tober-part-viii-october/

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
HAPPY HOOP-TOBER!

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