Cinemonster's Hooptober Nuen / Spook-a-Doodle Bracketology HalloweeNIT ’22

✅Hooptober Nuen: 39/39
✅HalloweeNIT: 31/31
✅Fran's SPOOKY BINGO: 36/36

Halloween is back! Almost! And as always I'm gonna od on horror to such a degree that I will be embarrassed by the end count. And as I have done the last couple of years I will be doing Cinemonster's Hooptober scavenger list. And as I did last year I will be doing my own little tournament/challenge of HalloweeNIT.

The Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club is a massive year long tournament of directors and teams of horror movies I run for a group of buddies as a big excuse for us all to watch horror movies together and discover new stuff. And because I overdo everything I do a separate smaller tournament with the teams that didn't make it called the HalloweeNIT. 31 films drawn from a 16 team tourney and all to be watched by October 31st.

Normally I wait until October 1st to count anything and I will probably go as close to that as I can hold out this year. But Cinemonster is starting Hooptober September 15th and the Bracketology tournament will be ending September 17th so I'm going to start HalloweeNIT at the same time to give people more time to complete it if they want. I might still be crazy enough to wait and try and squeeze a zillion movies into October but not everyone has to.

And this is really just a starting place. I'll be doing my friend Fran's challenge at the Something Awful forum assuming he does it again this year and I'll be watching a ton of other films that don't fit any of the challenge categories. I love Halloween and I love horror and this is really my favorite time of year. And as long as baseball or life's curveballs don't get in the way I hope to make it another great and crazy October.

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Hooptober Nuen Rules:
✅31/31 There must be 31 films

✅6/6 countries: Nope (USA); Superdeep (Russia); Night of the Hunted (France); The Conspiracy (Canada); Last Night in Soho (UK): Helter Skelter (Japaan)

✅8/8 decades: The Empty Man (2020s); Little Evil (2010s); The Haunting (1990s); Trilogy of Terror (1970s); Eegah (1960s); Horsemen (2000s); It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1950s); Sleepaway Camp II (1980s)

✅2/2 insect centered films: Empire of the Ants; Phase IV

✅1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released): Killer Horizon/Event Horizon

✅2/2 animated films: Monster Family; Extraordinary Tales

✅1 bloodthirsty old person/people film: X (2022)

✅2/2 1970s regional US films (Thanks Sean Young): The Werewolf of Washington; The Legend of Boggy Creek

✅The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access. (I realize that this will take a little work): Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor

✅1 German Silent: Secreta of a Soul

✅5/5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.: X (2002); The Legend of Boggy Creek; Creature from Black Lake: The Demons of Ludlow; Impulse

✅2/2 Christopher Lee films: The Gorgon; Extraordinary Tales

✅1 film with a musician or band in it (A real life musician or band): Studio 666

✅1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around: Return to Salem’s Lot

✅1 Lon Chaney film. (NOT JR): The Monster

✅ And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): Mortuary

✅EXTRA WORK: The Last Circus
✅EXTRA WORK:Silent Madness
✅EXTRA WORK: Pennywise: The Story of It.

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Fran's Spooky BINGO rules:

✅Halloween Is Special: Jack O’Lantern/The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spectacular/A Meowy Halloween
-Watch 60+ minutes of Halloween specials. These can be made-for-TV specials (e.g. Scary Godmother,), these can be Halloween or horror-adjacent episodes of sitcoms (e.g., "Stevil" from Family Matters, "Arnold's Halloween" from Hey Arnold, "And There Was Shawn" of Boy Meets World). You will have to write about every episode or special you watch.
-Watch a Halloween favorite or "guilty pleasure"

✅Golden Years: The Killer Shrews
-Watch a movie released before 1960

✅Hausu: Separation
-watch a Haunted House film
-watch a Ghost movie

✅Paperbacks From Hell: The Black Phone
-Watch a film adaptation of a novel or short story
-Watch a film that heavily features a novelist or writer

✅Highbrow Horror: The Spiral Staircase
-watch a highly esteemed qualifying film (horror, thriller, etc.) film
-watch a film featured in the Criterion Collection, on Criterion Channel or on Mubi

✅Masters of Horror: The Gorgon
-Pick an objective Master of Horror. Watch a film of theirs you've never seen.

✅A Perfect Getaway: Luz: The Flower of Evil
-watch a film from a country you've never seen a film from.
-watch a film about a vacation gone wrong

✅Scream, Queen!: They/Them
-Watch a horror film by a LGBQT+ director
-Watch a horror film with themes that deal heavily with LGBQT+ themes. You will need to include these in your write-up.
-Watch a documentary about LGBQT+ horror films

✅Femme Fatale: The Invitation (2022)
-Watch a horror film directed by a woman.
-Watch a feminist horror film. You need to including in your review how the film qualifies as a feminist film.

✅Thrilla In Manila: The Queen of Black Magic
-watch a Southeast Asian film

✅Horror Noire: Slender Man
-Watch a film directed by a Black filmmaker
-Watch a film with themes that predominantly relate to POC. You will need to write about these themes in your review.
-Watch a documentary about Black Cinema.

✅Behind the Screams: X (2022)
-Watch a film about or featuring filmmaking
-Watch a documentary about a film.
-Watch a documentary about a horror icon: directors, writers, actors, special effects artists, character (e.g., Freddy Kruger, Chucky), production companies, subgenres, etc.

✅The Devil Made Me Do It: The Old Ways
-watch a film about possession
-watch a film that features the Devil, or Satan, or demons.
-watch a horror film heavily featuring religion or religious themes

✅Yuppie Nightmare: Among Friends
- The podcast With Gourley and Rust are doing a season of "Yuppie Nightmares", where wealthy/affluent happy people are “punished” for their success, or have their lives upturned by intruders, or accidentally invite problems into their lives.
- watch a film that qualifies as a Yuppie Nightmare. 
Resources: Here is the list of films WG&R are watching
Here is an expanded list of films that qualify
- You do not have to watch a movie that is on either of these lists, as long as it is within the theme and you can elaborate on why you think it qualifies in your write-up

✅Glitches: Let’s All Go To The World’s Fair
-watch a film heavily featuring fears of technology, fears of the internet, or devices failing/becoming possessed/dangerous,

✅Punk Vacation: Studio 666
-watch a film that heavily features punks.
-watch a "punk" horror film. You will need to discuss in your review why you think the film could be described as "punk".

✅Something Wicked This Way Comes: She Will
-Watch a film predominately about witches and witchcraft
-Watch a film about an evil carnival, fair, or circus

✅They Always Come Back: Halloween Ends
-watch a remake, reboot or a prequel to a film
-watch the original of a remake, reboot or prequel

✅Picnic At Hanging Rock: Last Night in Soho
-watch a period piece film

✅Zombie Honeymoon: Alone (2020)
-watch a film featuring a doomed romance
-watch a film about relationships or love

✅Osteology: The Skeleton Key
-watch a movie with "Bone(s)", "Skull(s)", "Skeleton(s)", or other osteological terms in the title.

✅Goodnight, Mommy: Umma
-watch a movie with a scary/killer mom
-watch a movie with mommy issues
-watch a movie that features themes of motherhood.
-watch a movie with a mummy

✅Whispers in the Dark: Killer Horizon (fan edit of Event Horizon)
-watch a film with a commentary (filmmaker, fan, special features, podcast)
-watch a new edit of a film you've seen before (e.g., director's cut, uncut version, fan edit)

✅Dead & Buried: Ice Cream Man (David Warner)
-watch a film that has had a major contributor (director, composer, actor, producer, etc.) pass away since last October.
-watch the film Dead & Buried. (Only counts if you've never seen the film before.)

✅Children of the Damned: Monster Family
-watch a film that is family-friendly
-watch a film that features killer children

✅Short Cuts: Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (2011); Bad Moon Rising (2011); One Last Meal (2019); Megan (2018); Pickman’s Model (2014); Rakka (2017); Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl (2002); Arkane (2017); Mute (2018)
-Watch 60 minutes of short films. Write a review for each one. (Please write them in a single post, and try to provide links where possible.)

✅Wild Beasts: Beast (2022)
-Watch a film that features killer animal(s)

✅H20: Deep Rising
-watch a film that features a lot of water (the ocean counts)
-watch a film about underwater creatures/monsters
-watch a film that is celebrating it's 20th anniversary this year (no rewatches)

✅Spaced Invaders: The Fourth Kind
-Watch a film about extraterrestrial life
-Watch a film set in space

✅Tales of Terror: Bad Candy
-Watch an anthology film

✅Origin of Evil: The Night of the Hunted
-Watch a film from your birth year.

✅V/H/S: The Conspiracy
-watch a Found Footage film
-watch a film that was released direct-to-video in the VHS era

✅To Serve Man: Fresh
-Watch a film that features cannibalism

✅After Dark: Borderland
-watch an After Dark HorrorFest film (or After Dark Original)

✅TerrorVision: A Christmas Tale
-Watch a made-for-TV film
-Watch a film where TV is personified as evil or evil comes from the TV

✅Full Moon: The Werewolf of Washington
-watch a Werewolf movie
-watch a Full Moon Pictures film
-watch a movie where the Full Moon is a plot device