Hooptober TEN!: The Xenomorph's Dream

COMPLETE!

Welcome to Hooptober X, the TENse, TENebrous, TENtacled, TENder, TENdrilled, TENacious, TENterhooked, deTENdoned, unTENable, TENth edition. A journey through horrors past.

Cinemonster, you mad genius, you've built something incredible. It's alive. Alive!

This year's rules below. All first time watches. Theme this year is a journey through horror. Lots of period pieces, lots of countries, lots of decades. Bumped the list to a full 100 after several years finishing in the 45-55 range. Felt the big 10th anniversary deserved a real challenge. All categories are covered within the long list. Will add which films matched each criterion as they are watched.

Edit 9/15 - sorted my Beyond Fest schedule. Added the fest films that will be first watches for me.

Edit 10/9 - All criteria complete. Just adding numbers at this point.

Edit 10/31 - I'm calling it. Cranked out a dozen rewatches instead and only added a couple here in the last week. I think I'm good for this year.

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 films

6 countries -USA, UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, Mexico, France, Argentina, Sweden, Austria

8 decades - 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s

2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films - Deluge, Night of the Comet

1 film with Robert Englund -The Mangler

1 something is underground film The Burrowers

3 Satan/Devil centered films - The Touch of Satan, The Queen of Spades, Torture Garden

1 Amicus film - Torture Garden

The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access - Dracula 3000

1 LGBTQ+ connected film -Malefique, Sleepaway Camp 2

5 Films from De Palma - The Fury, Wes Craven - Cursed, Last House on the Left, Invitation to Hell Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorhead & Benson - Synchronic.

2 Peter Cushing films - The Evil of Frankenstein, Torture Garden

1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker - Dracula 3000

1 film based on a Clive Barker story - Candyman

1 film that was released the year that you turned 10 - DeepStar Six

1 Mario Bava film -Planet of the Vampires

1 film with an 'x' in the title - The Man From Planet X, The X from Outer Space

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - The Mangler

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Zodiac Killer and 10 Rillington Place. Like last year, there is a third film: Shaky Shivers.