Hooptober Origins 3: Triple Threats, Cold Sweats, and Rabid Pets
33 movies
Doing another "spring training" run for a past Hooptober, this time focusing on the criteria for Hooptober 3.0 from 2016.
After this, I only have to complete Hooptober 4.0 (presumably next spring, 6 months after Hooptober XI) to have watched the full 11 years worth of Hooptober picks. That'll be almost 350 distinct horror movies, not counting the bonus picks!
In the interest of saving myself some time this year, I've also included several picks from other challenge lists that I'm doing this year, including the 2024 Criterion Challenge, Anti-Criterion Challenge, Cult Movie Challenge, and Podcast Macabre Challenge.
Official rules copied from the original list by Cinemonster: <a href="https://boxd.it/I4n8">boxd.it/I4n8</a>
QUICK EASY RULES:
7 films from franchises(mix-and-match, or the same. 7 total) ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN JAWS 2 BASKET CASE 3 THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT HELLRAISER: INFERNO AVP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR DIARY OF THE DEAD
6 countries USA CANADA UK ITALY HONG KONG ARGENTINA FRANCE CHILE
5 decades 1920s through 2020s, only the 1950s excluded
5 films from before 1970 THE BAT (1926) THE LODGER (1927) ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) PEEPING TOM (1960) HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (1961) CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) VENUS IN FURS (1969)
5 films from the following: Bava, Argento, Lenzi, Fulci, Henenlotter, Romero, Stuart Gordon (mix-and-match, or all one) HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (Bava) THE CAT O' NINE TAIL (Argento) CONQUEST (Fulci) BASKET CASE 3 (Henenlotter) DIARY OF THE DEAD (Romero)
3 crazy animal movies JAWS 2 CUJO ARACHNOPHOBIA
1 silent THE LODGER
1 original film and its remake(Evil Dead, Frankenstein, Halloween etc..) ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) + THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1996)
1 Classic Universal horror ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
1 Stephen King adaptation (in tribute to Stranger Things) CUJO
1 Film with a witch/witchcraft (in tribute to The Witch. Can't be The Witch :)) THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Aaaaaaaaaaand 1 Tobe Hooper Film(There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH DEAD & BURIED and THE OLD DARK HOUSE. YOU WILL RECEIVE A SHOUT OUT IN NEXT YEARS HOOP-TOBER. JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN YOUVE FINISHED ALL 33
The Lodger (1927) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Lodger
other title:
房客
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
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London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Island of Lost Souls (1932) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Island of Lost Souls
other title:
亡魂岛
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) [Movie] TMDB Eggplant.place IMDb Douban WikiData
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Face of Fear (1960) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Peeping Tom
other title:
偷窥狂
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Peeping Tom
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Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Carnival of Souls (1962) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Carnival of Souls
other title:
灵魂狂欢节
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靈魂嘉年華(台)
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1962 horror film directed by Herk Harvey
Paroxismus (1969) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Paroxismus
director:
赫苏斯·佛朗哥
actor:
詹姆斯·达伦
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芭芭拉·麦克奈尔
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other title:
毛皮里的维纳斯
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Venus in Furs
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A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death.
The Cat O' Nine Tails (1971) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Il gatto a nove code
Blood for Dracula (1974) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!!
other title:
魔鬼之血
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Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!!
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Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
Anthropophagus (1980) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Anthropophagus
other title:
食尸人
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카니발 군도
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Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.
The Seventh Curse (1986) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
原振俠與衛斯理
Spontaneous Combustion (1990) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Spontaneous Combustion
director:
托比·霍珀
actor:
布拉德·道里夫
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Cynthia Bain
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other title:
自燃
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은빛공포
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A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Arachnophobia (1990) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Arachnophobia
other title:
小魔星
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小魔煞
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A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
Bad Girls from Mars (1990) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Bad Girls from Mars
director:
弗雷德·奥伦·雷
actor:
爱蒂·威廉斯
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Oliver Darrow
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other title:
火星坏女孩
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Bad Girls from Mars - Die verdorbenen Mädchen vom Mars
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Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production "Bad Girls from Mars." The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they're making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead. Emanuelle immediately begins embarrassing the producers by leading a wild party life around town. Meanwhile the killings continue, and detectives try to stop the fiend responsible.
Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1992) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Basket Case 3: The Progeny
director:
弗兰克·亨南洛特
actor:
安妮·罗斯
other title:
篮子里的恶魔3
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바스켓 케이스 3
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Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.
Body Snatchers (1993) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB Fantastika WikiData
Body Snatchers
other title:
异形基地
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异形怪客
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When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.