✅Hooptober: 46/46
✅Spooky Bingo: 25/25
❌HalloweeNIT: 16/31

Woohoo Halloween!  Spooky season is here officially when Hooptober drops.  Well theres candy and decorations in the stores too but Hooptober!   It’s time for me to start preparing decorations and cooking and other plans.  But plans like the long and ambitious movie list I will try!   And once again I’ll be taking a swing at Hooptober although I failed last year.  And once again I’ll do my own HalloweeNIT tour now.  And of course the SA Spooky Bingo.   A lot of stuff although im not totally insane so I’m counting crossover films.  But I’ll also have a lot more in mind and that I get the vibe for so who knows how big this list will get?   Hopefully life will cooperate with me this year and make it fun. 

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The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman

QUICK EASY RULES:
✅There must be 31 horror films
✅6/6 countries (other than Italy or US) - The Snow Woman (Japan); Wyrmwood : Road of the Dead (Australia); El Vampiro Negro (Argentina); Space Monster Wangmagwi (South Korea); Phantom of the Opera '62 (UK); Satanic Hispanics (Mexica)
✅9/9 decades - Elvira’s Haunted Hills (2000s); Ghoulies IV (1990s); Festival of the Living Dead (2020s); The Snow Woman (1960s); Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2010s); Leopard Man (1940s); The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisan (1930s); El Vampiro Negro (1950s); Dead End Drive-In (1980s)
✅5/5 Zombie Films - Festival of the Living Dead; Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead; Marvel Zombies; 28 Years Later; Frank and Zed
✅3/3 cult or conspiracy horror films - Culture Shock; Abruptio; Sacrifice
✅1 film from a Black director with a Black lead - Mr Crocket
✅1 film from a Mexican or Central American director - Satanic Hispanics
✅1 Canadian film - Slay
✅1 Russian or former Russian state film - Vamps
✅The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access.. - Leopard Man
✅2/2 Post Apocalyptic horror films - Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead; Marvel Zombies
✅1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot - Marvel Zombies
✅1 The animals are pissed at us film - Piranha II: The Spawning
✅1 Silent film - The Cat and the Canary
✅4/4 based on Novels - Phantom of the Opera '62; Saint Clare; The Bad Seed; The Amityville Horror
✅Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen - Culture Shock
✅1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film - The Horrible Dr Hichcock 
✅1 film from 1932 - Murders in the Rue Morgue
✅I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
✅And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - Eggshells
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: ✅Burn Witch Burn
✅German Chainsaw Massacre
Trick or Treat.

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SomethingAwful Spooky Bingo
An annual tradition done at Something Awful Forums. Once again done in fun BINGO card format.

✅WILD CARD CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie at random(it must be totally random, not something you had on your watchlist or had planned to watch) from streaming service OR ask the thread for a “wild card” selection” - El Vampiro Negro
✅PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 100TH ANNIVERSARY CHALLENGE: Watch any Phantom of the Opera adaptation OR watch a movie that is at least 100 years old - Phantom of the Opera (1962)
✅BITE SIZED HORROR CHALLENGE: Watch a horror anthology film OR at least 90 minutes of horror shorts OR watch at least 2 episodes of a horror anthology TV show - Satanic Hispanics
✅HUNGRY(AND THIRSTY!) HORROR CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie that features food/cooking in some way OR pair a horror movie with a meal that you cook yourself OR pair a horror movie with a special cocktail that you mixed yourself. (describe in your write-up why this particular meal/cocktail and the movie are a good combination). - Takeout
✅ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 50TH ANNIVERSARY CHALLENGE: Watch a movie by a LGBTQ filmmaker OR watch a movie with LGBTQ themes OR watch a movie filmed at the famous Oakley Court - Let’s Do the Time Warp Again/Slay
✅HORROR HOST CHALLENGE: Watch a movie with a Horror Host OR a movie where a famous Horror Host appears as an actor/actress - The Bad Seed on Svengoolie
✅FACE YOUR FEAR CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie featuring something that you have a specific fear of, and/or something that consistently creeps you the hell out. Tell us about it in your review. - Dangerous Animals (afraid of the ocean)
✅FAMILY OF HORROR CHALLENGE: Watch a family friendly horror movie and/or watch a kid’s movie with horror elements - Happy Halloween Scooby Doo!
✅HORROR PRODUCER SPOTLIGHT: WILLIAM CASTLE: Watch a horror movie produced and/or directed by William Castle - Macabre
✅“THAT GUY/GAL” CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie featuring Sid Haig OR Barbara Steele. - Abruptio/Long Hair of Death
✅DEEP RED 50TH ANNIVERSARY CHALLENGE: Watch an Italian giallo OR watch a slasher with giallo elements - Opera
✅CULT OF HORROR CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie featuring a cult and/or secret society. - Sacrifice
✅HORROR NOIRE CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie directed by a Black filmmaker OR watch a horror movie with themes that relate to POC(please mention these themes in your write-up) - Mr Crocket
✅RETURN OF THE REMAKE’S REVENGE CHALLENGE: Watch a movie with the word “Return” or “Revenge” in the title OR watch a Remake - Leprechaun Origins
✅HORROR LITERATURE SPOTLIGHT CHALLENGE: Watch a movie adapted from or based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft OR Robert Louis Stevenson - Suitable Flesh
✅STRINGS ATTACHED CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie featuring puppets and/or puppetry - Frank and Zed
✅SHIVERS 50TH ANNIVERSARY CHALLENGE: Watch a Body horror movie OR watch a Canadian horror movie. - Antiviral
✅FRAN REWIND: PUNK VACATION CHALLENGE: Watch a movie featuring punks or watch a “punk” movie. In your review please give us a little bit of information about why you consider the movie to be “punk” - Dead End Drive In
✅THE ART OF HORROR CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie featuring the Art community and/or a primary character who is an Artist of some kind OR watch a horror movie and create a piece of your own art inspired by the movie(sketch, drawing, crochet, you name it!) - Smile 2/Borderline
✅FINAL DESTINATION 25TH ANNIVERSARY CHALLENGE: Watch a movie featuring a funeral home/mortuary/mortician OR watch a movie where Death appears as a literal entity OR watch a movie featuring Tony Todd - Final Destination: Bloodlines
✅INTERNATIONAL HORROR SPOTLIGHT CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie from Ireland OR India. - Oddity
✅THE FUTURE IMPERFECT CHALLENGE: Watch a movie that takes place in the future(at the time of release) - Dracula 3000
✅SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE 25TH ANNIVERSARY: Watch a meta horror movie and/or watch a horror movie about the making of a horror movie. In your review, tell us about the meta elements of the movie. - House on Eden
✅GOTTA STAY CURRENT CHALLENGE: Watch a horror movie released in 2025 - 28 Years Later
✅SAMHAIN CHALLENGE: Watch a movie that takes place during Halloween season and/or watch a movie that is one of your personal favorites to watch during Halloween season. - V/H/S Halloween

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HalloweeNIT '25

Every year I run a huge horror tournament and movie club that starts Jan 1st and runs into late September. And for the last few years I've ran a smaller tournament in October with the movies/directors/teams that don't make the cut that is basically just a way to torture myself. But this year the HalloweeNIT winner actually won the whole thing! So I'll try and torture myself again this year with the latest HalloweeNIT. 31 movies in total will be drawn and anyone will be free to vote for who advances with the links I post. So you can torture me too.

Schedule
- Challenge begins Oct 1st.
- Elite Eight drawn Oct 8th.
- Final Four drawn Oct 15th.
- Championship drawn Oct 22nd.
- Champion crowned and final movie drawn Oct 29th.
- Challenge ends Nov 1st.

Field of 16
- 1) (Darthemed’s Team Killer Jobs) Robert Malenfant’s The Night Caller vs. 16) Franck Khalfoun’s i-Lived
- 2) (Weapon X’s Game Over) Emma Tammi’s Five Nights at Freddy’s vs. 15) Ruggero Deodato’s House on the Edge of the Park
- 3) (twernt’s But what I really want to do is direct) Bob Balaban’s Parents vs. 14) (Darthemed’s Team Desperation Boils Over) Richard Bates Jr.'s Suburban Gothic
- 4) Eisuke Naito’s The Crone vs. 13) (married but discreet’s Alpine Alternatives) Till Kleinert’s The Samurai
- 5) John Llewellyn Moxley’s Home for the Holidays vs. 12) (STAC Goat’s Barbarous Mexicans) Various Artists’ Barbarous Mexico
- 6) Norio Tsuruta’s Scary True Stories: Night Two vs. 11) (Darthemed’s Team Thriller Boys) Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan
- 7) Mari Asato’s Bilocation vs. 10) (Darthemed’s Team Cyclopean, Rugose, and Noisome) Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki
- 8) Paul Donovan’s Buried on Sunday vs. 9) Andy Milligan’s The Ghastly Ones