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THE DEAD SPEAK! Seven years after first laying the fell curse of Hooptober upon the heads of Letterboxd users worldwide, somehow Cinemonster has returned once again with an eighth set of rules to guide our cinematic horror selections this year. Complete 2021 rules are here: https://boxd.it/cDGlW
This will be my 4th time participating in Hooptober, and I feel like I've got another great list this year, pulling in a lot of first-time watches of things that I've always wanted to see (including a couple of my personal white whales), along with a handful of movies that I didn't even know existed before last week.
-- THE 13 RULES OF HOOPTOBER OCHO --
<strong>1) 6 countries</strong> 🌎📍✅
This year, I have movies from 9 countries!
🇺🇸 US 🇨🇦 Canada 🇬🇧 UK 🇩🇪 Germany 🇫🇷 France
🇯🇵 Japan 🇮🇹 Italy 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇰🇷 Korea
<strong>2) 8 decades</strong> 📅✅
This one got a little tougher this year, but I have the '30s through 2020s represented, with only the '50s and '00s missing. Maybe next year!
<strong>3) 2 folk horror</strong> 👨🏽🌾👩🏽🌾🏡✅
I found three!
👨🏿🏠 HIS HOUSE (2020)
👻🗾 KWAIDAN (1964)
🧙🏻♀️🎩 WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968)
<strong>4) 4 films from 1981</strong> 🕹👾✅
👩🏻🔪 POSSESSION (1981)
🧛♂️♣ THE MONSTER CLUB (1981)
🎡🤡 THE FUNHOUSE (1981)
🧟♂️☠ DEAD & BURIED (1981)
<strong>5) 2 films from your birth year (1977)</strong> 🧷👨🏻🎤✅
💀🛌 DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS (1977)
🔮🍝 THE PSYCHIC (1977)
<strong>6) 2 haunted house films</strong> 👻🏠✅
👨🏿🏠 HIS HOUSE (2020)
😱🏡 THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932)
<strong>7) The worst Part 2 that you haven't seen and can access.</strong> ✌🏻👎💩✅
🦅💉 BIRDEMIC 2: THE RESURRECTION (2013)
(Note: This is currently the worst reviewed horror part 2 on Letterboxd!)
<strong>8) 1 film set in the woods</strong> 🌲🌲🌲✅
🎒🥾 THE RITUAL (2017)
<strong>9) 1 Kaiju or Kong film (not the new K v. G)</strong> 🦎🦍✅
🏯🦎🐉🐛 DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968)
<strong>10) 2 Hammer films</strong> 🔨🎞✅
🧛♂️💹 DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE (1968)
👅🩸 TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1970)
<strong>11) 3 films with a person of color as director or lead.</strong> (excluding Asian) 👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽✅
👨🏿🏠 HIS HOUSE (2020)
🍭👨 CANDYMAN (2021)
🩸💀 BLOOD QUANTUM (2019)
<strong>12) 3 Asian horror films.</strong> 👻🏯✅
👻🗾 KWAIDAN (1964)
🎴♊ GEMINI (1999)
🤫👨👩👧👦 THE QUIET FAMILY (1998)
<strong>13) And 1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)</strong> 🧔🎥🎬✅
🎡🤡 THE FUNHOUSE (1981)
I will also be doing the three bonus challenge films:
👨🏿👻 J.D.'S REVENGE (1976)
💀😱 THE SKULL (1965)
🐕🚙🧙🏻♀️ THE SCOOBY-DOO PROJECT (1999)
I will also be participating in two additional Letterboxd challenges, which I have neatly integrated with this list.
<strong>2021 CULT MOVIE CHALLENGE:</strong> <a href="https://boxd.it/988jy">(full list)</a>
I'm doing a double feature every weekend for the following themes:
WEEK 39: '80S HORROR WEEK
🔪🚿 PSYCHO II (1983)
🏡👻 AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION (1982)
WEEK 40: TOBE HOOPER WEEK
🎡🤡 THE FUNHOUSE (1981)
🧟👜 BODY BAGS (1983)
WEEK 41: ITALIAN HORROR WEEK
🔮🍝 THE PSYCHIC (1977)
🌆🧟♂️ CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980)
WEEK 42: GOTHIC HORROR WEEK
🧙🏻♀️🎩 WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968)
⌛🐺 HOUR OF THE WOLF (1968)
WEEK 43: ZOMBIE WEEK
🧟♂️☠ DEAD & BURIED (1981)
🙀🐶 PET SEMATARY (1989)
WEEK 44: SHOCK THEATER WEEK
👦🧟♂️ SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939)
👦🧛♂️ SON OF DRACULA (1943)
<strong>1ST ANNUAL CRITERION CHALLENGE:</strong> <a href="https://boxd.it/aFkN6">(full list)</a>
I'm watching one Criterion movie a week, following the below criteria:
WEEK 38: HORROR
👻🗾 KWAIDAN (1964)
WEEK 39: NEW KOREAN CINEMA
🤫👨👩👧👦 THE QUIET FAMILY (1998)
WEEK 40: QUEER FEAR
😱🏡 THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932)
WEEK 41: BLACK & WHITE
🤪❌ MULTIPLE MANIACS (1970)
WEEK 42: THE 1960s
⌛🐺 HOUR OF THE WOLF (1968)
WEEK 43: SPINES #100-#200
👨🐶 MAN BITES DOG (1992)
I have also thrown in a couple of picks from the <a href="https://pca.st/FRi9">Blank Check Podcast</a>'s current series on John Carpenter, filling in some of my JC blind spots:
🚘🔥 CHRISTINE (1983)
🤴🌑 PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)
(Whew, is that everything?)
