These are fucking end times people! Let’s just hope Cthulhu rises up and TENtacles us to death before the climate change gets us or some fucking madman pushes the ol’ big red nuclear button.

Happy thoughts….

This is my 8th Hooptober! Where has the time gone?! It’s always a pleasure to come back and see what crazy stuff everyone’s watching. This year I thought I’d celebrate the cosmic horror weirdness of Nicolas Cage… I mean H.P. Lovecraft. 

As always a huge thank you to Cinemonster for keeping the Hooptober fires burning! (Ready to set the Wickerman and some unsuspecting fool alight).

Current tally

A quick reminder of this year’s criteria…
There must be (at least!) 38/34 films:
6 countries 9/6 (USA, Canada, Italy, Spain Germany, Uk), South Africa, Japan, Iceland)
8 decades 8/8 (1910s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films - 2/2 - Rats: Night of terror, Creepozoids. 
1 film with Robert Englund 1/1 - Jack Brooks Monster Slayer
1 something is underground film 1/1 The Burrowers
3 Satan/Devil centered films - 3/3 - Satan’s Rhapsody, Prince of darkness, The Sect
1 Amicus film 2/1 The Skull, The Asylum
The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access  1/1 - Dracula 3000
 1 LGBTQ+ connected film  1/1 Rift
5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock - and/or Morehead & Benson. 5/5 - Resolution, Spring, Deadly Blessing, The Endless, Synchronic.
2 Peter Cushing films 2/2 The Skull, The Asylum
1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker 1/1 - Dracula 3000
1 film based on a Clive Barker story 1/1 -books of Blood.
1 film that was released the year that you turned 10 - 1/1- I’ll let you guess!
1 Mario Bava film - 1/1 - Baron Blood
1 film with an 'x' in the title 1/1 TCM2
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - 1/1 TCM2

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH 
The Zodiac Killer 1/1
10 Rillington Place. 1/1
The same as last year the Screambox subscription doesn’t work in the UK and Shaky Shivers as of yet doesn’t have a UK release date… so that will have to go on the back burner… I’ve added a different werewolf comedy instead. 1/1