Here I am with my 4th Hooptober challenge! I keep forgetting that this actually starts mid-September, so I'm already late to the party.
I always assumed that every film in the challenge had to be horror movies, but I'm not so sure anymore. I mean, Hitchcock directed, according to Letterboxd, only three horrors: is everyone who wants to pick him as a criteria supposed to choose between those three movies? Go figure. Also, who cares, right? Anyway, that's my second self-imposed (?) rule, the first being picking only films I haven't seen, so some of them may not entirely fit the criteria under which they are listed ('cause, you know, I haven't seen them).
Usual disclaimer: I won't probably be…
Here I am with my 4th Hooptober challenge! I keep forgetting that this actually starts mid-September, so I'm already late to the party.
I always assumed that every film in the challenge had to be horror movies, but I'm not so sure anymore. I mean, Hitchcock directed, according to Letterboxd, only three horrors: is everyone who wants to pick him as a criteria supposed to choose between those three movies? Go figure. Also, who cares, right? Anyway, that's my second self-imposed (?) rule, the first being picking only films I haven't seen, so some of them may not entirely fit the criteria under which they are listed ('cause, you know, I haven't seen them).
Usual disclaimer: I won't probably be able to do one film every day in October so I will start ASAP and/or watch more than one film in certain days.
You can find the original list (and all the participants) here
6 countries
USA, UK, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, France, Indonesia
8 decades
40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
Dead & Buried, The Terror Within + Sharknado
1 film with Robert Englund
The Phantom of the Opera (also Dead & Buried)
1 something is underground film
Tremors
3 Satan/Devil centered films
Satan's Slave, Exorcist II + III, Angel Heart
1 Amicus film
Torture Garden
The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access.
Dracula 3000
1 LGBTQ+ connected film
What Keeps You Alive
5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorhead & Benson.
Phantom of the Paradise, Swamp Thing, Gothic, Frenzy, Synchronic
2 Peter Cushing films
The Mummy, The Hound of the Baskervilles (also Torture Garden)
1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
1 film based on a Clive Barker story
Night Breed
1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
May (2002)
1 Mario Bava film.
The Venus of Ille EDIT: I had already seen The Venus of Ille, switching with Four Times That Night (not a horror, but I've seen all Bava horror films)
1 film with an 'x' in the title
Baxter
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Invaders From Mars
No extra work for me this year 😢
Happy Hooptober to everyone!
