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Welcome to the Scavenger Hunt #103 for October 2023. I am so incredibly excited to be hosting a hunt. After starting these hunts at the beginning of the year and immediately falling in love, to be able to host is such a privilege. Thank you so much to all the hosts from this year for igniting my love for movies every month. Big thanks to Cody Lawrence for hosting last month. Hopefully this list can live up to those standards. I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Because it is October, I have tried to include quite a few horror prompts. If horror is not your genre, feel free to swap or pick an easy watch horror, as I used to also hate the genre. For those that love it, which is me now, see how many horror films you can fit in there. I'm pretty sure you can fit one with most prompts.

This app brings me so much joy and I can't wait to share things about myself through these prompts and hopefully learn some things about you from your choices as well.
For me, I always try and have no rewatches within a Scavenger Hunt list, so I challenge you all to the same. I love experiencing new films.

Progress 31/31 COMPLETED!!! 😱

Top 5 -
1. Paris is Burning
2. The Fall
3. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
4. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
5. Boogie Nights

Master List/Discord/November Hunt Raffle

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THE PROMPTS -

1. Watch a child horror film, or a children's horror film. Happy October, Halloween month, which means a lot of horror movies for horror fans. I thought we could ease into this horror month with a movie featuring creepy children, or a child friendly film that has horror elements (vibes like these). No judgement either way.

2. Watch a movie that features a sunrise. I'm never up early enough to see the sunrise unless it's in a movie. Let's start the hunt off the right way, with a movie that contains a sunrise.Here's some ideas to start.

3. Watch a movie with Colin Farrell. I always try to include Colin in any list I make, call it a slight obsession, so you all must do the same.

4. Watch a film set or filmed in your home town. I love these hunts because they bring together people from all over the globe. Put the town in the notes, so we can see where everyone is from. Note: you don't have to put the exact town if you find that too much and/or if there are no films from your town, find somewhere nearby.

5. Watch a road movie. All throughout high school and now four years into university I have studied film as much as I could, a genre that seems to keep popping up is the road movie, which is starting to drive me insane, but I still love.

6. Watch a movie that isn't 'gay' but so clearly is queer coded. I love gay media, and there isn't enough of it. But there are screeds of film that aren't 'canonically gay', but secretly or not so secretly are very homoerotic. AKA "the closet is glass".

7. Watch a movie from the year you were born. If you hadn't been so preoccupied being born, what movie would you have gone physically gone to see in theatres from that year?

8. Watch a movie referenced in one of your favourite TV Shows or Movies. I have been watching Better Call Saul at the moment, and it's one of my favourite shows of all time, along with Breaking Bad, and there are a lot of movies they make reference to in the show. Find a show that you're a fan of, and within it a movie that they make reference to. If you're stuck, you can use BCS or BB too.

9. Watch an Indian movie. Sometimes movies from India are underappreciated, but after RRR blew up last year and became very popular, I think it's time that other films from India should be recognised.

10. Watch a movie from the Movies That Are Better When You Know Nothing About Them list. As I said earlier, I love going into films with little or no knowledge of the premise. Try and pick one you know the least or nothing about and sit back for the ride. If you have seen them all try find one with a plot twist you don't know about.

11. Watch a movie you shouldn't watch with your parents. I am notorious for watching movies without reading the description first. So I've gotten myself into trouble watching movies with parents, such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, where I hadn't done my research. Bonus points if you do watch it with your parents.

12. Watch a movie with one of the original six Avengers that isn't a Marvel property. I don't think it's just me that has superhero fatigue, so in hopes of better movies to come, watch a movie that stars one of the original six Avengers in a non-superhero movie.

13. Watch a Letterboxd Top 250 Horror film. Today is Friday the 13th, and no better way to celebrate, especially in the month of October, than to watch a (hopefully) very good Horror movie. Find one from the top on Letterboxd.

14. Watch a movie from a common or reoccurring Actor/Director combo. Some actors and directors just work well together. There are plenty of incredible combinations, take your pick. Here's some ideas to start.

15. Watch a film in a language you haven't heard in film before. I am definitely guilty of not watching enough international movies, so here's to working on that.

16. Watch a movie from a thematic trilogy. Sergio Leone's Man With No Name Trilogy are some of my favourite films. Thematic Trilogies follow themes across movies more than anything else, like the Man With No Name. Watch one from any point in your chosen trilogy. Here's some ideas to start.

17. Watch a movie that has since been remade. I tend to try and watch an original film before the remake, but sometimes there will be one that slips through the cracks, also Hollywood has a bad habit of remaking, so there are plenty out there to find, maybe there's one that you've seen the remake and not the original. Try your luck!

18. Watch a movie that was nominated for Best Original Score at the Oscars, but didn't win. Movie scores are so powerful, but sometimes the Oscars get it wrong with the winner (*cough* Babylon *cough*) so watch one that was nominated and didn't succeed.

19. Watch an LGBTQ+ documentary. I don't really get around to watching a lot of documentaries, and there's some pretty incredible and moving documentaries out there. Queer media is also something I'm always on the lookout for, as there's never enough of it. So find a queer documentary that will hopefully teach us something.

20. Watch a movie from my best friend's comfort list. My friend got me back into Letterboxd and has been my trusty movie companion ever since, so to thank her for her kindness, let's watch a movie from her comfort list.

21. Watch a movie with no characters on the poster. I am so incredibly sick of floating head posters, and whenever I can, I change the poster on here if I can to something more calm, so find a poster where there are no characters at all, just fun art.

22. Watch a movie with a cult following. 'Delicately riding the line between pulp and art, these films refuse to be marginalized, lower budgets and lack of Hollywood gloss be damned.' There are so many weird and wonderful 'cult' status movies out there, with so many crazy stories to tell.

23. Watch a movie following a cult. Going off 'cult' status movies, I also find cults and such extremely interesting and kind of crazy how they even come to exist. Find a movie (or documentary) that explores a cult and it's intricacies.

24. Watch a witch movie. I love the medieval era and all the folk tales and legends, like that of witches. Witches have copped a lot of bad reputation (especially in early eras), so find a film where, hopefully, they are well represented.

25. Watch a movie from CinemaJoe's Getting Stuck in Terrible Places Cinematic Universe list. I'm a big fan of CinemaJoe and I love movies that involve being trapped in ridiculous places. So this one's a win-win. If you have seen them all find another movie where someone is stuck somewhere.

26. Watch a movie featuring a scene in a movie theatre. I have worked in a movie theatre for almost four years now and I love the environment of being surrounded by movies. I always love a good cinema scene in a movie, so here's to that!

27. Watch a movie from a director who has a birthday this month. There are so many big directors who have birthdays this month. Such as; Guillermo del Toro, Denis Villeneuve, Spike Jonze, Danny Boyle, Jon Favreau, Peter Jackson and Ti West. Watch one of their films, or if you find someone else, there were a lot.

28. Watch an animated movie. Today is International Animation day, and as of recently we have been spoilt with stunning animation in film. Take today to celebrate the wonderful art styles and visual beauty of animation.

29. Watch a movie you missed out on growing up. Sometimes there's a gap in the movies that I watched growing up that I wonder was whether my parents didn't deem it 'appropriate' or we just didn't get around to it. I've filled most of the gaps, but there's still some to go. No judgment here.

30. Watch a movie with one of your favourite actors that has a rating of less than 2.5. If you don't love them at their worst, then you don't deserve them at their best. See how hard they can or cannot carry a film.

31. Watch a horror movie centred around something that scares you. It's been a while since something has actually scared me in film. Time to face those fears, get creative if you're afraid of something less than physical.

If you want to substitute anything, watch a movie from my men I'd let run me over and the roles I'd let them run me over in list, or just a movie with one of them in it (actors in notes). OR because it's October you can swap it out for a horror movie released during or before the 80s.

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