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Hooptober Origins 2: Beware the Ides of March

Doing another "spring training" run for this year's upcoming Hooptober 10(!) using the rules from Hooptober 2.0 (https://boxd.it/roym ) and some of my alternate picks from Hooptobers past. Most of these are first time watches, but I threw in a handful of rewatches since it had been long enough and I just bought some of them on blu-ray.

QUICK EASY RULES:

5 Franchises (2 films from 2 franchises)
-- YOKAI MONSTERS
-- UNIVERSAL MONSTERS (2 films)
-- PUPPET MASTER
-- CHILD'S PLAY
-- PSYCHO (2 films)

5 countries
-- USA
-- Japan
-- Czechoslovakia
-- Indonesia
-- Mexico

5 films from 1 director (or 3 from 2)
-- James Wan
-- Ti West

5 decades
-- 1920s
-- 1930s
--…

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  • Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

    1

  • A Page of Madness

    2

  • The Creature Walks Among Us

    3

  • The Black Cat

    4

  • The Mummy

    5

  • Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge

    6

  • Psycho III

    7

  • Psycho IV: The Beginning

    8

  • Child's Play

    9

  • The Driller Killer

    10

  • Crawl

    11

  • Predator 2

    12

  • The Mangler

    13

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    14

  • Impetigore

    15

  • The Cremator

    16

  • The Conjuring 2

    17

  • Saw

    18

  • Insidious

    19

  • Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

    20

  • The Sacrament

    21

  • The Roost

    22

  • Leprechaun

    23

  • Cam

    24

  • Gerald's Game

    25

  • Possessor

    26

  • We're All Going to the World's Fair

    27

  • A Classic Horror Story

    28

  • Scream VI

    29

  • Evil Dead Rise

    30

  • Renfield

    31