(bonus points if you get the movie reference in the list title. ;) )
I am finally attempting the Hooptober challenge.
I've cut and pasted the rules from Cinemonster's original list below -https://letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-x-hooptober-hooptober-let-satan/
Meeting all of the criteria has left me THREE WILDCARD SPOTS. An entire month of pre-planned entertainment is going to leave me straining at the bit, so I'm reserving three slots for any old random horror flick that appeals to me before the end of October.
I'll be tagging and reviewing (or updating the review of) each movie as I watch it, and arranging them on the list in terms of quality rankings.
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films.
- 6 countries (US, UK, Italy,…
(bonus points if you get the movie reference in the list title. ;) )
I am finally attempting the Hooptober challenge.
I've cut and pasted the rules from Cinemonster's original list below -https://letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-x-hooptober-hooptober-let-satan/
Meeting all of the criteria has left me THREE WILDCARD SPOTS. An entire month of pre-planned entertainment is going to leave me straining at the bit, so I'm reserving three slots for any old random horror flick that appeals to me before the end of October.
I'll be tagging and reviewing (or updating the review of) each movie as I watch it, and arranging them on the list in terms of quality rankings.
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films.
- 6 countries (US, UK, Italy, Argentina, Ireland, South Korea, Spain, Guatemala, Japan, Canada)
- 8 decades (1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
√ - 2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films (The Battery, Earthquake)
- 1 film with Robert Englund (Dead and Buried)
- 1 something is underground film (The Tunnel)
- 3 Satan/Devil centered films (Black Sunday, Suspiria, Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil)
√ - 1 Amicus film en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_Productions#Filmography (Scream and Scream Again)
- The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access. (Argento's Dracula 3D)
- 1 LGBTQ+ connected film (All About Evil)
- 5 Films from De Palma (Dressed to Kill), Wes Craven (Scream), Ken Russell (Lair of the White Worm), Hitchcock (The Man Who Knew Too Much), and/or Moorhead & Benson (Something In The Dirt).
- 2 Peter Cushing films (Scream and Scream Again, Island of Terror)
√ - 1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker (Dracula 3D, Lair of the White Worm)
- 1 film based on a Clive Barker story (Nightbreed)
√ - 1 film that was released the year that I turned 10 (1991) (Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square)
- 1 Mario Bava film. (Black Sunday)
√ - 1 film with an 'x' in the title (Pearl: An X-traordinary Origin Story)
- 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) (The Damned Thing)
- Review them all. (I have a policy of not reviewing movies more than once on Letterboxd, so if I end up watching something I've seen before, I'll just append my most recent thoughts and tag my original review.)
***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.