My sixth Hooptober, and the eleventh overall!
Previous lists: 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
Original List & Rules
As always, I will come up with my selections along the way rather than pre-planning everything, because I want to have the freedom to watch what I'm in the mood for rather than having to stick to an established watchlist. So, everything that's currently on this list is still subject to change, and I might end up not watching a few of these after all, especially if it turns out availability is an issue.
I do want to stick with my plan to watch predominantly films from the 1980s, however. And I probably won't make it to 31 films…
My sixth Hooptober, and the eleventh overall!
Previous lists: 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
Original List & Rules
As always, I will come up with my selections along the way rather than pre-planning everything, because I want to have the freedom to watch what I'm in the mood for rather than having to stick to an established watchlist. So, everything that's currently on this list is still subject to change, and I might end up not watching a few of these after all, especially if it turns out availability is an issue.
I do want to stick with my plan to watch predominantly films from the 1980s, however. And I probably won't make it to 31 films at the end of this run, but I'll give it a try.
Films are ranked first by rating once I've seen and reviewed them, then by release date if I haven't seen them yet.
QUICK EASY RULES:
10 Decades
!920s (The Hands of Orlac)
1930s (Island of Lost Souls)
1940s (The Spiral Staircase)
1950s (The Bad Seed)
1960s (Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Strait-Jacket)
1970s (Phantasm)
1980s (The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Humanoids from the Deep, Roar, C.H.U.D., The Stuff, Demons, Invaders from Mars, Stage Fright, Shocker)
1990s (Army of Darkness)
2000s (Frailty)
2010s (Evil Dead, The Babadook, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Tumbbad, Little Monsters)
2020s (Master, Late Night with the Devil, Immaculate, MaXXXine, Longlegs)
6 Countries
Australia (The Babadook)
Austria (The Hands of Orlac)
India (Tumbbad)
Ireland (Byzantium)
Italy (Stage Fright, Demons, Dark Glasses)
Spain (Sleep Tight)
United Kingdom (Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors)
United States
1 Franchise
Evil Dead (1981)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Evil Dead (2013)
Evil Dead Rise (2023)
3 New World Pictures Films
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
C.H.U.D. (1984)
The Stuff (1985)
Bad Weather Film
Stage Fright (1987), The Spiral Staircase (1946)
alt.: Frozen (2010)
Donald Sutherland Film
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Michele Soavi Film
Stage Fright (1987)
Robert Wiene Film
The Hands or Orlac (1924)
Tobe Hooper Film
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Wes Craven Film
Shocker (1989)
Film from 1984 and 2011
C.H.U.D. (1984)
Detention (2011), alt. Sleep Tight (2011)
Texas Films
Frailty (2001)
Friday the 13th (2009)
Horror with Black Women
Little Monsters (2019), alt. Nanny (2022) / Sick (2022) / The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
2 Horror Comedies
Evil Dead II (1981)
The Stuff (1985)
PROGRESS SHEET
✔️ = category finished
❌ = category not yet finished
• 31 films (34/31) ✔️
• 6 countries (8/6) [USA, UK, Italy, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Ireland] ✔️
• 8 decades (10/8) [1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s] ✔️
• 1 franchise (5/5) [Evil Dead] ✔️
• Wes Craven (1/1) ✔️
• 1 film caused by/worsened by weather (3/1) ✔️
• 1 film starring a Black woman (0/1) ❌
• 1 Donald Sutherland film (1/1) ✔️
• 3 films from New World Pictures (2/3) ❌
• 2 Indian films (0/2) ❌
• 4 Italian films (2/4) ❌
• 2 Horror comedies (4/2) ✔️
• 2 films made primarily or entirely in Texas (1/2) ❌
• 1 film that exists in at least 2 available cuts (1/1) ✔️
• 1 Robert Wiene film (0/1) ❌
• 1 Michele Soavi film (1/1) ✔️
• 1 film from 2011 (1/1) ✔️
• 1 film from 1984 (1/1) ✔️
• 1 Tobe Hooper film (0/1) ❌