Hooptober 2023 | X-Rated Edition
For this momentous tenth year of Hooptober I figured I'd try something a little different, so am focussing on X-rated horror (where the prompt allows for it) from:
- NC-17 Films
- Ultimate guide to Disturbing Movies
- The Video Nasty Files
- Unsimulated Sex in Cinema
- 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days
- My watchlist
An X rating is a film rating that indicates that the film contains content that is considered to be suitable only for adults. Films with an X rating may have scenes of graphic violence or explicit sex that may be disturbing or offensive to some viewers.
Reviews & lists from previous Hooptobers: 1.0 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 (currently…
Hooptober 2023 | X-Rated Edition
For this momentous tenth year of Hooptober I figured I'd try something a little different, so am focussing on X-rated horror (where the prompt allows for it) from:
- NC-17 Films
- Ultimate guide to Disturbing Movies
- The Video Nasty Files
- Unsimulated Sex in Cinema
- 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days
- My watchlist
An X rating is a film rating that indicates that the film contains content that is considered to be suitable only for adults. Films with an X rating may have scenes of graphic violence or explicit sex that may be disturbing or offensive to some viewers.
Reviews & lists from previous Hooptobers: 1.0 | 2.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 (currently working through the older ones to get caught up)
Commencing on September 15 and including 31 films (+ 3 bonus films) from the original list of our host Cinemonster, using the themes below:
There must be 31 films...
◈ 6 Countries: The Demons (France), Succubus (Germany), The Bloodstained Shadow (Italy), The Loreley’s Grasp (Spain), The Devil in Miss Jonas (Switzerland), Mystery of the Wax Museum (USA)
◈ 8 Decades: Mystery of the Wax Museum (1930s), Succubus (1960s), Phantasm (1970s), Dr Caligari (1980s), Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990s), Taxidermia (2000s), L.A. Zombie (2010s), Sick (2020s)
◈ 2 Post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films: The Last Man on Earth, Aftershock
◈ Something is underground film: Alligator
◈ 3 Satan/Devil centred films: The Devil’s Plaything, Lisa and the Devil, Satan’s Baby Doll
◈ Amicus film: Scream and Scream Again
◈ The worst Dracula film that you haven't seen: Dracula Sucks
◈ A LGBTQ+ connected film: Killer Nun
◈ 5 Films from De Palma, Craven, Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorhead & Benson : Spring, The People Under the Stairs, Gothic, Deadly Blessing, Cursed
◈ 2 Peter Cushing films: Scream and Scream Again, The Vampire Lovers
◈ A film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker: Blood for Dracula
◈ A film based on a Clive Barker story: Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
◈ A film that was released the year that you turned 10: Killer Nun
◈ A Mario Bava film: Lisa and the Devil
◈ A film with an 'x' in the title: Taxidermia
◈ A film with Robert Englund: Eaten Alive
◈ A Tobe Hooper Film: Eaten Alive
From #32 onwards are films taken mostly from the lists above that generally hold to the X (or R / NC-17) rated theme, plus cinemonster's 'Extra HoopTober Films' (except for Shaky Shivers which at the time of writing is still not available in Australia), and rewatches of some great horror films.
100 of 100 films complete.