10/31/23 Update
Oh I bombed it, but I loved it. I satisfied about 11 of the criteria. Oh well maybe next year.
Watched more than 31, so I consider it successful.
Gonna craft a great films watchlist to reinvigorate my art house interests & my penchance for prestige prestige pictures. Time to get pretentious.
Good job everybody!
Hooptober X - my first Hooptober, lots of vampires & monsters on this one, finally gonna tackle Mick Garris’ adaptation of The Stand, gonna get out of the comfort zone by venturing into territories I don’t normally gravitate towards, and gonna check some fresh new curiosities in addition to a couple revisits.
Let’s roll.
Cinemonster’s list & rules - boxd.it/n6or6
QUICK EASY RULES:
- [x] There…
10/31/23 Update
Oh I bombed it, but I loved it. I satisfied about 11 of the criteria. Oh well maybe next year.
Watched more than 31, so I consider it successful.
Gonna craft a great films watchlist to reinvigorate my art house interests & my penchance for prestige prestige pictures. Time to get pretentious.
Good job everybody!
Hooptober X - my first Hooptober, lots of vampires & monsters on this one, finally gonna tackle Mick Garris’ adaptation of The Stand, gonna get out of the comfort zone by venturing into territories I don’t normally gravitate towards, and gonna check some fresh new curiosities in addition to a couple revisits.
Let’s roll.
Cinemonster’s list & rules - boxd.it/n6or6
QUICK EASY RULES:
- [x] There must be 31 films
- [x] 6 countries (US, Italy, UK, Japan, France, Sweden)
- [x] 8 decades (20s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s)
- [x] 2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films (Threads, The Stand, Cyborg 1994)
- [x] 1 film with Robert Englund (New Nightmare)
- [x] 1 something is underground film (Mad God)
- [x] 3 Satan/Devil centered films (end of days, house of the devil, the day of the beast)
- [x] 1 Amicus film. (Tales from the crypt 1972)
- [x] The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access. (Dracula 1972)
- [x] 1 LGBTQ+ connected film (the hunger)
- [x] 5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Morehead & Benson. (Lair Of White Worm, Serpent and Rainbow, Sisters, the endless, new nightmare)
- [x] 2 Peter Cushing films (tales from the crypt, Dracula 1972)
- [x] 1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker (Lair of White Worm)
- [x] 1 film based on a Clive Barker story (Hellraiser 2022 or Hellraiser 1987)
- [x] 1 film that was released the year that you turned 10 (cure)
- [x] 1 Mario Bava film. (Black Sabbath)
- [x] 1 film with an 'x' in the title (xtro )
- [x] And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) (lifeforce)
- [x] Remainders: Diabolique, Wendell & Wild, Monster Squad, Hubie Halloween, The Phantom Carriage, The Addiction, The Empty Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Angry Black Girl And Her Monster, The Monster, Let The Right One In, The Vagrant