Tag: hooptober11
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Hooptober 11.0 – Insidious (2010)
Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2024 I’m ashamed it took this many years to realize how close the phrase “inside of us” looks like the title of Insidious, the first holy shit crackerjack film in the now-ended franchise from James Wan and Leigh Whannell creators of the Saw phenomenon. I was never a big fan…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Infested (2023)
Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2024 We’ve see a lot of films that are one thing on the surface and something else underneath. Infested, the French spider creature feature from Sébastien Vaniček in his feature debut is very much two things, but both are very much on the surface and striking in their forcefulness. You…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Children Of The Corn (1984)
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2024 I remember the marketing for Children Of The Corn when I was a kid. The commercials were absolutely terrifying, and at 11 all I knew about Stephen King was that he was “The Master of Horror”. I don’t think I started reading his work yet, but when I did…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Sect (1991)
Being Film #4 for Hooptober 2024 Now this is something I can get behind. Dario Argento may have lost a step or two personally since his heyday ended around 1985 (I’ll go so far as 1987 with Opera) but the man could find and nurture talent, and one of the best was Michele Soavi. I…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971)
Being Film #2 for Hooptober 2024 Last May I went on a big giallo kick, and out the vast number of new films discovered one of my favorites was The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, a great title for a gothic tale that had all sorts of twists and turns and some truly gorgeous cinematography.…