It's that time again. :D
This website is like a time capsule for me, digging things up through the field of my unreliable memory. It feels weird I've been watching movies for Cinemonster's Hooptober since 2015. This is the tenth year it's happened, and the eighth year I've participated. Back in my first year, I had nightmares. The last several years I've begun looking forward to watching scary movies as I turn the calendar page to August.
Decisions are hard and in any case this list is built in collaboration with my husband, so I add the movies as I watch them, with the exception of the first one on the list. This year, because of an awesome planned adventure…
It's that time again. :D
This website is like a time capsule for me, digging things up through the field of my unreliable memory. It feels weird I've been watching movies for Cinemonster's Hooptober since 2015. This is the tenth year it's happened, and the eighth year I've participated. Back in my first year, I had nightmares. The last several years I've begun looking forward to watching scary movies as I turn the calendar page to August.
Decisions are hard and in any case this list is built in collaboration with my husband, so I add the movies as I watch them, with the exception of the first one on the list. This year, because of an awesome planned adventure the last two weeks of September, I'll be starting the beginning of September instead of the 15th.
QUICK EASY RULES:
20/31 films
7/6 countries - France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, UK, USA
8/8 decades - 1910s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
3/2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films - Return of the Living Dead Part 2, Sharknado 2, Shaun of the Dead
1/1 film with Robert Englund - Wishmaster
1/1 something is underground film - Graveyard Shift
3/3 Satan/Devil centered films - Highway to Hell, Phantom of the Paradise, Satan's Rhapsody
1/1 Amicus film - The Beast Must Die
1/1 The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access - Dracula 3000
1/1 LGBTQ+ connected film - Multiple Maniacs
2/5 Films from De Palma - Phantom of the Paradise, Wes Craven - Swamp Thing, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson
2/2 Peter Cushing films - The Beast Must Die, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
1/1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker - Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
1/1 film based on a Clive Barker story - Lord of Illusions
1/1 film released the year that your husband turned 10 - Lord of Illusions
1 film released the year you turned 10
1/1 Mario Bava film - Kill Baby Kill!
1/1 film with an 'x' in the title - Xtro
1/1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - Invaders from Mars
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Zodiac Killer (check) and 10 Rillington Place. Like last year, there is a third film: Shaky Shivers.
-review them all.(eek)
Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 1st.
