This is my first year doing Hooptober. Edit: Hooptober 12 is over! See below for my final rankings.
Full disclosure: I spent a few hours earlier this afternoon working on my list, only to realize once finished that I'd accidentally been using last year's rules. WELP.
While it's my understanding that this is generally done between Sept 15 - Oct 31, between Jewish high holy days, family visiting from out of state, and parenting a toddler, I think I could use some extra time. So I'm starting Sept 1.
Anyway, here's the checklist for THIS year.
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Final rankings! Note: these rankings have nothing to do with film quality but instead are about my personal enjoyment of the movies. That…
This is my first year doing Hooptober. Edit: Hooptober 12 is over! See below for my final rankings.
Full disclosure: I spent a few hours earlier this afternoon working on my list, only to realize once finished that I'd accidentally been using last year's rules. WELP.
While it's my understanding that this is generally done between Sept 15 - Oct 31, between Jewish high holy days, family visiting from out of state, and parenting a toddler, I think I could use some extra time. So I'm starting Sept 1.
Anyway, here's the checklist for THIS year.
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Final rankings! Note: these rankings have nothing to do with film quality but instead are about my personal enjoyment of the movies. That is to say, there are some objectively worse movies ranked higher than better ones. I assume most horror fans are familiar with that sort of thing, but I wanted to clarify anyway.
The Best:
1. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
2. Diabolique (1955)
3. House (1977)
4. Jaws (1975)
5. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
6. Death Becomes Her (1992)
7. When Evil Lurks (2023)
8. Snowpiercer (2013)
9. Churuli (2021)
The Good:
10. The Forbidden Door (2007)
11. Slither (2006)
12. The Night Eats the World (2018)
13. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
14. Baskin (2015)
15. Raw (2016)
16. Salo (1975)
The OK:
17. Train to Busan (2016)
18. A Page of Madness (1926)
19. Freaks (1932)
20. Cat People (1942)
21. The 7th Victim (1943)
22. Kill List (2011)
23. Huesera: the Bone Woman (2019)
The Not Good:
24. Color Out of Space (2019)
25. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
26. Viy (1967)*
27. Kuso (2017)
28. All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
29. Pet Sematary (1989)
The Garbage Tier:
30. Night Terrors (1993)
31. Ghostland (2018)
*I retained almost nothing about Viy either of the two times I tried to watch it (it was a long week). Its placement here is meant to reflect that the pieces I do remember were better than anything in the movies placed after it.
