Not gonna lie…time caught up with me. With the world in a seemingly irreversible nosedive, the time for horror seems both completely unnecessary, yet at the time time vital for my sanity. And so like a bloodied angel here comes the 12th annual Hooptober Horror Movie Marathon, ready to take me away into darker and phantasmagorical nightmares. I’m back for another round, keeping my unbroken record of participating every year. That includes once again flooding your inboxes with horror reviews for the fifth straight year here on the site.
The drill remains the samel: September 15th (a mere two days away) officially kicks the marathon, and it runs until Halloween. You can see my full list on Letterboxd here, and if you’re not a member of the Letterboxd community now is a perfect time to join. At the very least come join our merry dance in the dark. Even better: play along with us and find some new favorites frightful films, or laugh along at some truly disastrous missteps…it’s all in the name of broadening our cinematic palate.
THE RULES:
- 31 films watched and reviewed
- 6 films from different countries (other than Italy or the US)
- 9 films from different decades
- 5 zombie fims
- 3 cult or conspiracy horror films
- 1 film from a black director with a black lead
- 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- 1 Canadian film
- 1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
- The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven’t seen and can access
- 2 post-apocalyptic horror films
- 1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- 1 “The Animals are pissed at us” film
- 1 silent film
- 4 films based on novels
- Any film from this list that you haven’t seen
- 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- 1 film from 1932
- The first ever specific film for the marathon: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- And 1 Tobe Hooper film (there must ALWAYS be a Tobe Hooper film)
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre, and Trick or Treat***
My starting list (subject to change provided I still adhere to all the rules above), for the visually inclined:
The carnage begins NOW (well, actually on the 15th). Hope to see you there and here.
Cinema Dual 