In the sole episode (so far) of their podcast, "Hanging with Tobe Hooper," Patrick Bromley and Heather Wixson talk about the way Hooper's earliest movies (Eggshells and The Song is Love) engage the counterculture of the 1960s. There was joy there, but also precarity and fear. As Wixson puts it:
...for those people who were participating in those marches, it's a terrifying thing to have to deal with. You're trying to just make the world a better place, and yet at any moment — and we've seen this over the past few years as well — that could just be erased by one act of violence.
Wixson goes on to express appreciation for Tobe Hooper as a filmmaker who engaged…
In the sole episode (so far) of their podcast, "Hanging with Tobe Hooper," Patrick Bromley and Heather Wixson talk about the way Hooper's earliest movies (Eggshells and The Song is Love) engage the counterculture of the 1960s. There was joy there, but also precarity and fear. As Wixson puts it:
...for those people who were participating in those marches, it's a terrifying thing to have to deal with. You're trying to just make the world a better place, and yet at any moment — and we've seen this over the past few years as well — that could just be erased by one act of violence.
Wixson goes on to express appreciation for Tobe Hooper as a filmmaker who engaged with the world around him, "a guy who, regardless of what genre he was in, he was really trying to say something of where culture was headed at the time."
Steven Wright's joke comes to mind: It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. Horror movies paint the world, and it takes a lot of them to do it. I've never been able to stick to the discipline of only 31 movies because I always find myself wishing I could squeeze a little more of the world in there. I see Eggshells on a lot of folks' lists this year and that's Hooptober doing its work: compelling us to let in more and more of the world.
Thank you, Tobe. And thank you, Cinemonster!
See Cinemonster's original list here.
This is my tenth time around! (earlier lists here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). Last year it took me almost four months.
The tag for our reviews is HoopTober11.
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Finland, Norway)
8 decades (1920s, 1940s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
ALL of the films from a horror franchise with at least 4 entries (if there is a hard reboot, you can choose whichever has 4+ that you prefer)
1 film by Wes Craven (Scream)
1 film caused by/worsened by weather (Cape Fear)
1 film starring a Black woman (Gothika, The Harbinger)
1 Donald Sutherland film (Fallen)
3 films from New World Pictures (God Told Me To, Forbidden World, The Initiation)
2 Indian films (Phobia, Aval)
4 Italian films (Hotel Fear, Spider's Labyrinth, Slaughter Hotel, The Psychic)
2 Horror comedies (Cemetery Man, The Final Girls)
2 films made primarily or entirely in Texas (Red White & Blue, Devil's Candy)
1 film that exists in at least 2 available cuts (Salem's Lot)
1 Robert Wiene film (Genuine)
1 Michele Soavi film (Cemetery Man)
1 film from 2011 (Scream 4)
1 film from 1984 (The Initiation)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) Salem's Lot
