Tag: Hooptober
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Hail Horror! It Returns for 2025!
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…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Onibaba (1964)
Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2024 Just incase you thought the sixties were only happening in the United States from a film perspective, change and rebellion was happening everywhere, particularly in Japan. Onibaba shows a very different side from what artists like Kurosawa and Ozu were doing within the confines of a studio system they…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Don’t Look Now (1973)
Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2024 Something a little different. I thought I had reviewed this film before, and I did…15 years ago. It’s been sitting on a dead blog forever, and so in the interest of preservation I present it to you here, in all its childish glory. I kid…it’s pretty good if I…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Peeping Tom (1960)
Being Film #29 for Hooptober 2024 It’s still difficult for me to reconcile the beautiful, captivating films made by Powell & Pressburger with the lurid, psychosexual menace of Powell’s 1960 solo outing Peeping Tom. On the one hand, I can see the use of color, the imaginative camera movement, the exquisite framing…even the emphasis on…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Stree (2018)
Being Film #28 for Hooptober 2024 What a delight. I wasn’t aware of just how much I needed a breath of air, some light after mainlining one dour note of horror after another over the course of the month. So thank you 1920 for being borderline unwatchable with no english subtitles on any services (both…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Dark Water (2002)
Being Film #27 for Hooptober 2024 I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations, and how they impact our viewing of a film. Dark Water, the other Hideo Nakata horror film (Ringu being the first) was a film I knew a lot about, but always held off for one reason or another, thinking there would be…