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
Funny Games (1997) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Funny Games
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Hellraiser: Inferno
other title:
养鬼吃人5：地狱
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猛鬼追魂5
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A detective solves the puzzle box that releases the diabolical demon, Pinhead. As those around him begin to meet tragic fates, he sets out to conquer the horrifying villain.
Red Screening (2020) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Al morir la matinée
other title:
凶恶谢幕
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Al morir la matinée
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A maniac is loose in an almost empty cinema.
Destroy All Neighbors (2024) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Destroy All Neighbors
director:
乔什·福布斯
actor:
Jonah Ray Rodrigues
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兰蒂·海勒
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other title:
Acaba con los vecinos
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邻居都得死
William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.
The Old Dark House (1932) [Movie] Eggplant.place Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Old Dark House
other title:
古屋失魂
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老黑屋
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Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm and his obsessive, malevolent sister Rebecca. Things get worse as the brutish manservant Morgan gets drunk, runs amuck and releases the long pent-up brother Saul, a psychotic pyromaniac who gleefully tries to destroy the residence by setting it on fire.
Dead & Buried (1981) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Dead & Buried
6.5 (10 ratings)
director:
盖瑞·谢尔曼
actor:
詹姆斯·法伦蒂洛
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梅乐蒂·安德森
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other title:
盖棺了结
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死亡埋葬
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After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.