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 … Continue reading Hail Horror! It Returns for 2025!

Time keeps on ticking, doesn’t it? It feels like only yesterday I was exhausted, dehydrated, and mentally comatose after wrapping up the 10th annual Hooptober Horror Movie Marathon, and here we are, just a week away from Year 11. My streak remains unbroken, having participated in all ten previous marathons, and this time is no different, as I once again inundate your inboxes with horror … Continue reading Hail Horror! It Returns for 2024!

Welcome to another year of Hooptober. Once again the criteria has been announced and the films assembled. Last year, I started my first full Hooptober wondering if I was going to complete 31 films. I ended it having seen 50 films from September 15th to October 31st. I started with a double feature of Pearl and X, and ended with Dario Argento’s latest Dark Glasses. … Continue reading Hoopbound : Hooptober X, an introduction

I cannot believe a year has passed, and here we are again. It’s the 10th year of the Hooptober Horror Movie Marathon, and for the third time we’ll be covering it over here on Cinema Dual. That means for the next 45 days myself and Mr. Dan Morris will be exploding your eyeballs with copious reviews of horror films throughout time and space. We’ve got … Continue reading Hail Horror! It Returns for 2023!

Wait…it’s September 15th already?! Time files when the world’s a dumpster fire and you’re wearing 10 masks and drinking Lysol to prevent the mutant hybrid of COVID, Monkey Pox and…Christ on Toast it pains me to even write it…POLIO. How to suppress the horror of real life? With cinematic horror, of course! That’s why we’re back, doing the same thing we do every year (but … Continue reading Hail Horror! It’s Back for 2022!

A bit of history.

I’ve always been a horror nerd, doing some kind of solitary fright flick marathon as far back as 2007 with the abominable Resident Evil 3: Extinction. On another defunct blog I started calling the annual fest Hail Horror – if you can believe this post from 2009 I was already on year 4 – and the name stuck. No real structure: the only rule at the time was that I would try to watch films I hadn’t seen or reviewed before. Back then the film blog community was a pretty cool place, and a bunch of us would gather and recommend films to watch and (virtually) chat about. But blogs come and go, and the online film fan community is, uh…well, while not dead per se, it’s certainly a different landscape than the more communal vibe I experienced back in the day. I loosely kept the schedule going for my own benefit, but a lot of the joy and fun withered on the vine.

Enter Letterboxd. And Cinemonster.

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