Happy 10th anniversary Hooptober! This in my 6th time participating, and each time has created wonderful memories. They're the type of memories one takes to the grave....or are responsible for a haunted house. Thanks (?) cinemonster.
Anyway, I always name my Hooptober challenge after a film or theme. This year the theme is about the number ten. Symbolically, 10 can represent resurrection, a new cycle, or the dawn of a new era. As we count on our chubby little digits, we soon realize that expressing a number beyond ten requires both the new and old. In that spirit, I picked 10 horror reboots or remakes for my list. After all, these recreations have similar requirements: it needs just enough of…
Happy 10th anniversary Hooptober! This in my 6th time participating, and each time has created wonderful memories. They're the type of memories one takes to the grave....or are responsible for a haunted house. Thanks (?) cinemonster.
Anyway, I always name my Hooptober challenge after a film or theme. This year the theme is about the number ten. Symbolically, 10 can represent resurrection, a new cycle, or the dawn of a new era. As we count on our chubby little digits, we soon realize that expressing a number beyond ten requires both the new and old. In that spirit, I picked 10 horror reboots or remakes for my list. After all, these recreations have similar requirements: it needs just enough of the old stuff to attract audiences, and just enough new stuff to keep them intrigued.
As for my lists name, it's play on a common theme amongst many remakes and reboots. Many of them today are content with copying the titles of their source material, with no subtitle or indication that it is a continuation, a re-imagining, and/or modernization. The titles Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Dawn of the Dead can each represent 2 or more films. Since CrazyTGI is one of the first usernames I ever used, it serves as a fitting way to pay homage to reusing original titles.
6 Countries
1. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) - UK
2. The Boxer’s Omen (1983) - Hong Kong
3. Plaga Zombie (1997) - Argentina
4. The Sadness (2021) - Taiwan
5. Planet of the Vampires (1965) - Italy
6. The Ring Virus (1999) - South Korea
8 decades
1. House of Wax (1953)
2. The Birds (1963)
3. The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
4. The Boxer’s Omen (1983)
5. Body Snatchers (1993)
6. The Omen (2006)
7. Let Me In (2010)
8. It’s A Wonderful Knife (2023)
2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
1. The Birds (1963)
2. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
1 film with Robert Englund
1. The Mangler (1995)
1 something is underground film
1. The People Under the Stairs (1991)
2. C.H.U.D. (1984)
3. Cemetery Man (1994)
3 Satan/Devil centered films
1. The Omen (2006)
2. To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
3. Angel Heart (1987)
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
It’s A Wonderful Knife (2023)
The Perfection (2018)
Suspiria (2018)
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson.
The Fury (1978) - De Palma
The People Under the Stairs (1991) - Wes Craven
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) - Ken Russell
The Birds (1963) - Hitchcock
Synchronic (2019) - Moorehead & Benson
2 Peter Cushing films
1. The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
2. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
1 film based on a Clive Barker story
Candyman (2021)
Hellraiser (2022)
1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
Plaga Zombie (1997)
1 Mario Bava film.
Planet of the Vampires (1965)
1 film with an 'x' in the title
House of Wax (1953)
Saw X (2023)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
The Mangler (1995)
Bonus Films
Serial Mom (1994)
Maniac (2012)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Zodiac Killer and 10 Rillington Place. Like last year, there is a third film: Shaky Shivers.
