…two black leather gloves, and The Phan-tom oh so scary!
It's time. IT'S TIME! Hooptober 12 it is, and oh yes am I ready! You there. Yes you, awkward kiddo in the back! Take my bony hand, and follow me along into spookyland!
This list is going to be weird and grandiose. But not yet. Let it simmer. Then test by pinching the finger to see if it's done. Beware it's not a chicken bone. That's how they get them, all those witches…
On a personal note, I like to avoid revisits and love to get lost in the swampy hinterlands of folklore fantasy and general foggy weirdness. The other note: I take part in a fediverse/X thing called the…
…two black leather gloves, and The Phan-tom oh so scary!
It's time. IT'S TIME! Hooptober 12 it is, and oh yes am I ready! You there. Yes you, awkward kiddo in the back! Take my bony hand, and follow me along into spookyland!
This list is going to be weird and grandiose. But not yet. Let it simmer. Then test by pinching the finger to see if it's done. Beware it's not a chicken bone. That's how they get them, all those witches…
On a personal note, I like to avoid revisits and love to get lost in the swampy hinterlands of folklore fantasy and general foggy weirdness. The other note: I take part in a fediverse/X thing called the Bales2025FilmChallenge. It's a year-long mission with its own rules and mine (no movies from the US, as many decades and countries as possible). That may contaminate this year's Hooptober, and so be it.
But I digress… 💀
Them b̵o̵n̵e̵s̵ rules, as always courtesy of Cinemonster – with annotations in [brackets] by me:
√+5 – There must be 31 horror[ish] films
√+10 – 6 countries (other than Italy or US): Austria [1] / Canada [2] / Czechoslovakia [2] / Denmark [1] / France [4] / [West/East] Germany [2] / Hong Kong [1] / Ireland [1] / [Italy [3] / Japan [1] / Mexico [1] / Russia / Soviet Union [1] / South Korea [2] / Spain [2] / Sweden [1] / UK [7] / Ukraine [1] / [USA [7]
√ – 9 decades: 1900s [2] / 1910s [1] / 1920s [3] / 1940s [1] / 1950s [1] / 1960s [12] / 1970s [14] / 1980s [3] / 1990s [1]
√ – 5 Zombie Films [taking this very broadly] / kw zombie | kw voodoo | lb
√ – 3 cult or conspiracy horror films / LB
X – 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
√ – 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director [Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama] / Caracas Cinema Archive
√+1 – 1 Canadian film
√ – 1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia [how was Russia ever "part of" the USSR…], Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
√ – The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access [if I'd follow this to the tee, it'd be It's a Wonderful Life…]
√ – 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films / lb
√+1 – 1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
√ – 1 The animals are pissed at us film / dogs
√+2 – 1 Silent film / IMDb I / IMDb II
√+3 – 4 based on Novels / LB
I – Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
– 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
– 1 film from 1932 / IMDb horror | IMDb mystery | IMDb fantasy
– I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39) [looking for an alternative]
X – And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
X ***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).
X – review them all.(eek)
Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.
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🩸 = high priority
X = skipped for valid reasons
Art Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde
Aickmanesque
World Cinema - Arthouse - Drama