Tag: hooptober9
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Hooptober 9.0 – Night of the Strangler (1972)
Being Film #13 for Hooptober 2022 Another reason to adhere to rules as much as possible when participating in Hooptober: I don’t think I ever would have seen the (or even been aware of) some of the regional low budget horror that was prevalent throughout the 70s. Is that a blessing or a curse when…
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Hooptober 9.0 – The House With Laughing Windows (1976)
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2022 There are certain things we come to expect when we sit down with a giallo, named for the yellow color adorning lurid tales of sex and murder popular in Italy as far back as the 30s: twisted violence and garish colors. Point of view kills. Hands covered in black…
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Hooptober 9.0 – Creature (1985)
Being Film #11 for Hooptober 2022 If nothing else, Creature should impart just how influential Alien was to the science fiction and horror landscape. The film wears Ridley Scott’s classic (as well as Howard Hawks’s The Thing From Another World) on its sleeve, and there’s no denying this was a film writer/director William Malone felt…
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Hooptober 9.0 – Glorious (2022)
Being Film #10 for Hooptober 2022 The world needs more variation in its Lovecraftian horror. So here is Glorious, a Shudder original that takes its tales of Elder Gods and puts it in a dirty rest stop restroom for almost the entirety of its runtime. But if you’re going to do a bottle movie where…
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Hooptober 9.0 – The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Being Film #9 for Hooptober 2022 The biggest surprise for me upon watching 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera was how – 6 years before Universal horror really kicked off in the sound era with the 1-2 punch of Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931 – a lot of the style and mood of those classics…
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Hooptober 9.0 – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Being Film #8 for Hooptober 2022 A quick rundown of The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, Hammer’s take on the Robert Louis Stevenson tale. As enjoyable as it may be, there are distracting elements that kept me from the velvety praise I typically heap on a Hammer production. One, it features Oliver Reed in a…