“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?”
This year's [2022] Hooptober officially starts on September 15 but I don't think I can make it in time if I'd wait that long. I also will be following the "official" rules to a certain extent (not going to waste my time on bad sequels).
Sources: OpenCulture, UbuWeb, Art Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde, carpathian worksheet
Legend:
- to do
• category taken
√ task completed
My rules: no rewatches, no crap, Cinemonster's QUICK EASY RULES:
√ +VI There must be 31 films
√ +XIV 6 countries: USA, West-Germany, Brazil, Denmark, France, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Germany, Finland, South Korea, Japan, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia
√…
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?”
This year's [2022] Hooptober officially starts on September 15 but I don't think I can make it in time if I'd wait that long. I also will be following the "official" rules to a certain extent (not going to waste my time on bad sequels).
Sources: OpenCulture, UbuWeb, Art Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde, carpathian worksheet
Legend:
- to do
• category taken
√ task completed
My rules: no rewatches, no crap, Cinemonster's QUICK EASY RULES:
√ +VI There must be 31 films
√ +XIV 6 countries: USA, West-Germany, Brazil, Denmark, France, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Germany, Finland, South Korea, Japan, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia
√ +I 8 decades: 1970s, 1960s, 1920s, 1930s, 2000s, 1950s, 1910s, 1940s, 1980s
√ 2 insect* centered films: Pan si dong, Salinnabileul ggotneun yeoja *remember kids, spiders are no insects!
√ 1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released): Thirteen to Centaurus
√ 2 animated films: La séance de spiritisme est terminée, 海の唄
√ 1 bloodthirsty old person/people film: The Werewolf of Woodstock
√ 2 1970s regional US films: The Kirlian Witness, Bog
The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access
√ 1 +1 German silent: Furcht, Die Gespensterstunde
I 5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.
I 2 Christopher Lee films: LB The City of the Dead
√ +2 1 film with a (real-life) musician or band in it: Donovan, Micky Dolenz, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
1 Stephen King adaptation: LB, Stephen King Short Movies, Dollar Babies, LB list All Hail Stephen King
√ Lon Chaney Sr. film: The Unknown
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Last Circus and Silent Madness [going with the Simon Nuchtern one. And I'm probably off as usual] Like last year, there is a third film: Pennywise: The Story of It.
