"You better hold on tight, spidermonkey."
It's that time again! Time to enter the dark realms of Cinemonster's Hooptober - the tenth (bwahahaha).
My original selection of 39 are all new-to-me, and as always I'll add every "bonus" horror film I watch during the festivities!
Final Progress: 69/69 Complete!
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films
6 countries
Italy - Cannibal Ferox (1981)
USA - Creature from Black Lake (1976)
France - Lips of Blood (1975)
South Korea - The Call (2020)
Denmark - When Animals Dream (2014)
Japan - Retribution (2006)
8 decades
1980s - The Living Dead Girl (1982)
1990s - Troll 2 (1990)
1950s - The Tingler (1959)
1940s - The Red House (1947)
1960s -…
"You better hold on tight, spidermonkey."
It's that time again! Time to enter the dark realms of Cinemonster's Hooptober - the tenth (bwahahaha).
My original selection of 39 are all new-to-me, and as always I'll add every "bonus" horror film I watch during the festivities!
Final Progress: 69/69 Complete!
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films
6 countries
Italy - Cannibal Ferox (1981)
USA - Creature from Black Lake (1976)
France - Lips of Blood (1975)
South Korea - The Call (2020)
Denmark - When Animals Dream (2014)
Japan - Retribution (2006)
8 decades
1980s - The Living Dead Girl (1982)
1990s - Troll 2 (1990)
1950s - The Tingler (1959)
1940s - The Red House (1947)
1960s - Gamera, the Giant Monster (1965)
2020s - Flux Gourmet (2022)
1970s - Daughters of Darkness (1971)
2000s - Carriers (2009)
2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
The Terror Within (1989)
Aftershock (2012)
1 film with Robert Englund
Galaxy of Terror (1981)
1 something is underground film
Graveyard Shift (1990)
3 Satan/Devil centered films
Inquisition (1977)
Dark Waters (1993)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
1 Amicus film
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access
Dracula 3000 (2004)
1 LGBTQ+ connected film
The House That Screamed (1969)
5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Morehead & Benson
Wes Craven - The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) and The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)
Morehead & Benson - Resolution (2012)
Ken Russell - Gothic (1986)
Hitchcock - Frenzy (1972)
2 Peter Cushing films
Corruption (1968)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
Blood for Dracula (1974)
1 film based on a Clive Barker story
Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999)
1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
Fido (2006)
1 Mario Bava film
Lisa and the Devil (1973)
1 film with an 'x' in the title
The X from Outer Space (1967)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Invaders from Mars (1986)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Zodiac Killer (already seen it and not keen to see it again, so I'm leaving that one off) and 10 Rillington Place. Like last year, there is a third film: Shaky Shivers.
Extra films I watched along the way:
Lords of Chaos (2018)
Deep Rising (1998)
Taste of Fear (1961)
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
The Unknown (1927)
Razorback (1984)
The Devil (1972)
Outer Space (1999)
Saw X (2023)
Species (1995)
Underworld: Awakening (2012)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
The Mummy (1959)
The 8th Night (2021)
The Kingdom (1994)
Pingu's The Thing (2012)
Arachnophobia (1990)
House of Usher (1960)
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
Pleasant Inn (2019)
Portrait of God (2022)
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Mara (2018)
Other Lily (2017)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Arrebato (1979)
A Dark Song (2016)
The Night of the Hunted (1980)