Spooky season — my favorite time of the year 🎃😈🧛♂️👻👹🧙♀️👽🔪💀🧟♂️ — is upon us once again! This will be my second year participating in Hooptober, and here are the movies I am planning to watch from September 15 to October 31 for Hooptober X, including additional horror movies I want to check out this Halloween as well.
I started more than a week earlier (September 6, to be exact) to accommodate at least one horror movie I have seen in theaters that also satisfies more than two of the list's criteria.
As with last year, I am prioritizing first-time watches in fulfilling the criteria. For the "country" criteria, non-USA produced or originated films are my priority for the count, and…
Spooky season — my favorite time of the year 🎃😈🧛♂️👻👹🧙♀️👽🔪💀🧟♂️ — is upon us once again! This will be my second year participating in Hooptober, and here are the movies I am planning to watch from September 15 to October 31 for Hooptober X, including additional horror movies I want to check out this Halloween as well.
I started more than a week earlier (September 6, to be exact) to accommodate at least one horror movie I have seen in theaters that also satisfies more than two of the list's criteria.
As with last year, I am prioritizing first-time watches in fulfilling the criteria. For the "country" criteria, non-USA produced or originated films are my priority for the count, and including an entry from my home country, the Philippines.
*List is subject to change as I participate in the challenge.
**Entries are arranged chronologically in the order I watched them.
Cinemonster's Rules:
There must be 31 films
● 6 countries 🌎🌏🌍
1. Finland 🇫🇮 : Hatching (AKA Pahanhautoja) (2022)
2. Philippines 🇵🇭 : Clarita (2019), In My Mother's Skin (2023)
3. Italy 🇮🇹 : Black Sunday (AKA La maschera del demonio) (1960)
4. New Zealand 🇳🇿 : Housebound (2014)
5. United Kingdom 🇬🇧 : The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The House that Dripped Blood (1971), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Threads (1984)
6. Turkey 🇹🇷 : Baskin (2015)
BONUS
7. Sweden 🇸🇪 : The Conference (AKA Konferensen) (2023)
8. Spain 🇪🇸 : [●REC] (2007)
9. Canada 🇨🇦 : Infinity Pool (2023)
10. Argentina 🇦🇷 : When Evil Lurks (AKA Cuando acecha la maldad) (2023)
● 8 decades ⏳️🗓
2020s : The Nun II (2023), Hatching (AKA Pahanhautoja) (2022), We Need to Do Something (2021), No One Will Save You (2023), The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023), The Exorcist: Believer (2023), Totally Killer (2023), Hellraiser (2022), Renfield (2023), The Conference (AKA Konferensen) (2023), The Empty Man (2020), Saw X (2023), Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Infinity Pool (2023), When Evil Lurks (AKA Cuando acecha la maldad) (2023), Suitable Flesh (2023)
2010s : Clarita (2019), Housebound (2014), Baskin (2015), Synchronic (2019), My Soul to Take (2010)
2000s : Dracula 3000 (2004), [●REC] (2007)
1990s : Urban Legend (1998)
1980s : Dressed to Kill (1980), Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), Threads (1984), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
1970s : The House that Dripped Blood (1971), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Eaten Alive (1976), The Devils (1971), The Exorcist (1973), The Zodiac Killer (1971), 10 Rillington Place (1971)
1960s : Black Sunday (AKA La mascheria del demonio) (1960)
1950s : Them! (1954)
BONUS
1930s : The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
● 2 post-apocalyptic or natural disaster-related films
Post-apocalyptic ☢️ : Threads (1984)
Natural disaster ⛈️ : We Need to Do Something (2021)
● 1 film with Robert Englund
Eaten Alive (1976)
BONUS: Urban Legend (1998)
● 1 something is underground film
Baskin (2015)
● 3 Satan/Devil centered films 😈
The Nun II (2023), Clarita (2019), Black Sunday (AKA La maschera del demonio) (1960)
BONUS: The Exorcist: Believer (2023), The Devils (1971), The Exorcist (1973)
● 1 Amicus film
The House that Dripped Blood (1971)
BONUS: Tales from the Crypt (1972)
● The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access 🧛♂️👎
Dracula 3000 (2004)
● 1 LGBTQ+ connected film 🏳️🌈
Dressed to Kill (1980)
BONUS: Hellraiser (2022)
● 5 Films from Brian De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Alfred Hitchcock and/or Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson
Brian De Palma : Dressed to Kill (1980)
Wes Craven : My Soul to Take (2010)
Ken Russell : The Devils (1971)
Alfred Hitchcock : The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson : Synchronic (2019)
● 2 Peter Cushing films
The House that Dripped Blood (1971), Tales from the Crypt (1972)
● 1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker 🧛♂️
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
BONUS: Dracula 3000 (2004), Renfield (2023)
● 1 film based on a Clive Barker story
Hellraiser (2022)
● 1 film that was released the year that you turned 10 🔟
[●REC] (2007)
● 1 Mario Bava film
Black Sunday (AKA La maschera del demonio) (1960)
● 1 film with an 'x' in the title ❌️
The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
BONUS: Saw X (2023), The Exorcist (1973)
● And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Eaten Alive (1976)
● EXTRA WORK: The Zodiac Killer (1971) and 10 Rillington Place (1971)
