It seems my Hooptober Lists are becoming much like reverse Star Trek films (all the odd ones are good years for me, and all the even ones are bad ones). I say that because I nearly completed my first outing with this horror challenge (Hooptober 7), but with the next year's list (8), I fell way behind on completion, but last year (Hooptober Neun) I managed to slay the beast and watch ALL the films on my list!!! So pray for me that I can break this cycle and go 2-for-2 on consecutive challenge completions!
As always, if you've followed me or my challenge lists before, there a a lot of extra films on here. It's mostly because I'm not…
It seems my Hooptober Lists are becoming much like reverse Star Trek films (all the odd ones are good years for me, and all the even ones are bad ones). I say that because I nearly completed my first outing with this horror challenge (Hooptober 7), but with the next year's list (8), I fell way behind on completion, but last year (Hooptober Neun) I managed to slay the beast and watch ALL the films on my list!!! So pray for me that I can break this cycle and go 2-for-2 on consecutive challenge completions!
As always, if you've followed me or my challenge lists before, there a a lot of extra films on here. It's mostly because I'm not 100% decided on which film I wanna watch for a specific criteria, and I want to have options in case a film I want to watch is no longer streaming (seeing as how we don't officially start until September 15th). I'm also unclear about the "Satan/Devil centered films" criteria as of this moment, so that may change drastically depending on clarification...lol.
Once again, the way I organize my list is by category, not (necessarily) in the order I'll watch them in, and it's organized as such:
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films
6 countries:
- The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (Sri Lanka)
- Zana/Let It Snow/247 Degrees F (Georgia)
- Housewife/Baskin (Turkey)
- Aporia/Under the Shadow (Azerbaijan/Qatar)
- Kataksha/Altered Skin (Pakistan)
- The Wailing (South Korea)
8 decades:
- 30s
- 40s
- 50s
- 60s
- 70s
- 80s
- 90s
- 00s
- 10s
- 20s
2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films:
- The Bad Batch
- Bird Box: Barcelona/The Tent
1 film with Robert Englund:
- Galaxy of Terror
1 something is underground film:
- C.H.U.D.
3 Satan/Devil centered films:
- Curse of the Demon/Satan's Slaves/The Dark and the Wicked
- Apostle/Race with the Devil
- The House of the Devil
1 Amicus film:
- Tales from the Crypt
The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access:
- Dracula 3D
1 LGBTQ+ connected film:
- Martyrs/The Lure/Tragedy Girls
5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Morehead & Benson:
- The Fury
- Deadly Blessing
- Invitation to Hell
- Chiller
- Gothic
2 Peter Cushing films:
- Horror Express/The Ghoul
- The House that Dripped Blood/Asylum
1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker:
- Legend of the Mummy/Blood for Dracula/Dracula
1 film based on a Clive Barker story:
- Lord of Illusions/Dread/Book of Blood
1 film that was released the year that you turned 10:
- Crocodile 2/Nine Lives/May
1 Mario Bava film:
- Blood and Black Lace/Bay of Blood/Kill, Baby, Kill
1 film with an 'x' in the title:
- Saw X
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film):
- Crocodile/Mortuary/Djinn/Body Bags
EXTRA WORK:
- The Zodiac Killer
- 10 Rillington Place
- Shaky Shivers
****I'm proud to have Screambox back as a partner, this year. I'd like to thank them for being a part of Hooptober Live, too.
Use This Link for a complimentary trial, and watch Shaky Shivers.
There is a lot of cool stuff on Screambox, so enjoy. 🤡
-review them all.(eek)
Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.