Here we are again. How great is this?
This is is my fourth Hooptober, and it's great to be back, but I can't help but feel discouraged, because I still haven't been able to finish all of the reviews one single time. Not by a long shot, really, even though I always managed to finish the films. So I'm trying a new tack this year.
It would be easy to just cheat - just, start right now while it's still August - but instead I'm taking the path of most resistance.
That's right. Sobriety. Dry Hooptober.
Six weeks. Shouldn't be too hard, right?
Right?
6 countries (other than Italy or U.S.): Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico,…
Here we are again. How great is this?
This is is my fourth Hooptober, and it's great to be back, but I can't help but feel discouraged, because I still haven't been able to finish all of the reviews one single time. Not by a long shot, really, even though I always managed to finish the films. So I'm trying a new tack this year.
It would be easy to just cheat - just, start right now while it's still August - but instead I'm taking the path of most resistance.
That's right. Sobriety. Dry Hooptober.
Six weeks. Shouldn't be too hard, right?
Right?
6 countries (other than Italy or U.S.): Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, U.K.
9 decades: All decades from the 1920s through the 2020s represented.
5 zombie films: The Last Man on Earth, Dead of Night, Mr. Vampire, Zombie for Sale, The Sadness
3 cult or conspiracy horror films: Eye of the Devil, The Stepford Wives, Messiah of Evil
1 film from a black director with a black lead: Ganja & Hess
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Poison for the Fairies
1 Canadian film: Dead of Night
1 former Soviet state film: Sputnik
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access: The Wolf Man
2 post-apocalyptic horror films: The Last Man on Earth, The Sadness
1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: Sleep
1 the animals are pissed at us film: Phase IV
1 silent film: A Page of Madness, The Man Who Laughs
4 based on novels: The Old Dark House, The Wizard of Oz, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Last Man on Earth, Eye of the Devil, The Stepford Wives
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen: A Page of Madness, The Body Snatcher, The Wolf Man, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, Ganja & Hess, The Substance
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
1 film from 1932: The Old Dark House
I have never made a specific film part of this before, but Wizard of Oz ('39): The Wizard of Oz
And one Tobe Hooper film (there must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): Toolbox Murders
