Doing another "spring training" run for a past Hooptober, this time focusing on the criteria for Hooptober 3.0 from 2016.
After this, I only have to complete Hooptober 4.0 (presumably next spring, 6 months after Hooptober XI) to have watched the full 11 years worth of Hooptober picks. That'll be almost 350 distinct horror movies, not counting the bonus picks!
In the interest of saving myself some time this year, I've also included several picks from other challenge lists that I'm doing this year, including the 2024 Criterion Challenge, Anti-Criterion Challenge, Cult Movie Challenge, and Podcast Macabre Challenge.
Official rules copied from the original list by Cinemonster: boxd.it/I4n8
QUICK EASY RULES:
7 films from franchises(mix-and-match, or the same. 7 total)…
Doing another "spring training" run for a past Hooptober, this time focusing on the criteria for Hooptober 3.0 from 2016.
After this, I only have to complete Hooptober 4.0 (presumably next spring, 6 months after Hooptober XI) to have watched the full 11 years worth of Hooptober picks. That'll be almost 350 distinct horror movies, not counting the bonus picks!
In the interest of saving myself some time this year, I've also included several picks from other challenge lists that I'm doing this year, including the 2024 Criterion Challenge, Anti-Criterion Challenge, Cult Movie Challenge, and Podcast Macabre Challenge.
Official rules copied from the original list by Cinemonster: boxd.it/I4n8
QUICK EASY RULES:
7 films from franchises(mix-and-match, or the same. 7 total)
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
JAWS 2
BASKET CASE 3
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
HELLRAISER: INFERNO
AVP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
DIARY OF THE DEAD
6 countries
USA
CANADA
UK
ITALY
HONG KONG
ARGENTINA
FRANCE
CHILE
5 decades
1920s through 2020s, only the 1950s excluded
5 films from before 1970
THE BAT (1926)
THE LODGER (1927)
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
PEEPING TOM (1960)
HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (1961)
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)
VENUS IN FURS (1969)
5 films from the following: Bava, Argento, Lenzi, Fulci, Henenlotter, Romero, Stuart Gordon (mix-and-match, or all one)
HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (Bava)
THE CAT O' NINE TAIL (Argento)
CONQUEST (Fulci)
BASKET CASE 3 (Henenlotter)
DIARY OF THE DEAD (Romero)
3 crazy animal movies
JAWS 2
CUJO
ARACHNOPHOBIA
1 silent
THE LODGER
1 original film and its remake(Evil Dead, Frankenstein, Halloween etc..)
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932)
+
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1996)
1 Classic Universal horror
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
1 Stephen King adaptation (in tribute to Stranger Things)
CUJO
1 Film with a witch/witchcraft (in tribute to The Witch. Can't be The Witch :))
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Aaaaaaaaaaand 1 Tobe Hooper Film(There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH DEAD & BURIED and THE OLD DARK HOUSE. YOU WILL RECEIVE A SHOUT OUT IN NEXT YEARS HOOP-TOBER. JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOUVE FINISHED ALL 33***
