It’s the most wonderful time of the year! I failed last year’s Hooptober so miserably, I’m still picking up the pieces rounding out the year. THIS YEAR I refuse to fail.

This is my third year participating, and as with previous years, all will be first time watches for me (or at least ones I haven’t seen in my adult life)

Here are the parameters. You can check out the official list here: https://boxd.it/n6or6

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 films

6 Countries
Tenebre (1982, Italy)
The Cremator (1969, Czechoslovakia)
Pulse (2001, Japan)
Triangle (2009, Australia)
The Lure (2015, Poland)
Seance (2021, UK)

8 Decades
Häxan (1922)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
The Cremator (1969)
Cannibal Girls (1973)
Doom Asylum (1987)
Tremors (1990)
The Lure (2015)
Seance (2021)

2 Post Apocalyptic or Natural Disaster Related Films
Day of the Dead (1985)
Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)

1 Film with Robert Englund
A Nightmare on Elm St: The Dream Child (1989)

1 ‘Something is Underground’ Film
Tremors (1990)

3 Satan/Devil Centered Films
Häxan (1922)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
The Exorcist III (1990)

1 Amicus Film
Asylum (1972)

The Worst Dracula Film (by Letterboxd rating) That You Haven't Seen and Can Access
Blade: Trinity (2004)

1 LGBTQ+ Connected Film
Pieces (1982)

5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson
A Nightmare on Elm St: The Dream Child (1989)
Frenzy (1972)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Altered States (1980)
The Endless (2017)

2 Peter Cushing films
Asylum (1972)
Dracula (1958)

1 Film Based on a Work of or Invoking the Name Bram Stoker
Dracula (1958)

1 film based on a Clive Barker story
Nightbreed (1990)

1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
Kolobos (1999)

1 Mario Bava Film
A Bay of Blood (1971)

1 film with an 'x' in the title
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Body Bags (1993)


Previous Hooptobers: 
Hooptober IX
Hooptober 8