Tag: Hooptober
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Hooptober 12.0 – The White Reindeer (1952)
Being Film #18 for Hooptober 2025 Going 20 years into the future and changing from zombies to…reindeer? Just goes to show you that anything is ripe for horror, provided it’s done with care and attention. I can’t recall if I’ve seen any other classic films coming out of Finland (recent comedies and action, sure…), but…
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Hooptober 12.0 – White Zombie (1932)
Being Film #17 for Hooptober 2025 Sometimes a movie is so good, it doesn’t matter the condition you see it. In a world of 4K, Dolby Vision, IMAX, and other buzzwords for the highest of definitions, a picture ultimately rests on its construction and execution. That being said, I wish some of that visual pizzazz…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024)
Being Film #16 for Hooptober 2025 In the end, there’s really no escaping the shadow of what Guillermo del Toro brought to Mike Mignola’s Hellboy character in his two films. You can argue they’re not truly what Mignola intended with the character, mixed too much with del Toro’s sympathy with the monsters, but those two…
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Hooptober 12.0 – The Blackening (2022)
Being Film #15 for Hooptober 2025 The Blackening has a lot to say about black identity, about the tropes and cliches of how black actors are handled not just in horror films, but throughout the visual medium. It also wants to be funny, and it wants to be scary. It also wants to be very…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Together (2025)
Being Film #14 for Hooptober 2025 Tone is such a fickle thing. So hard to maintain, and if you find it too late, it’s nearly impossible to get back and adjust the rest to match, either in reshoots or the edit. Together is a case in point: beautifully acted, some truly gnarly effects work, an…