Tag: hooptober9
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Hooptober 9.0 – Extraordinary Tales (2013)
Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2022 Horror gets tricky when it comes to trying to extend it into animation. There’s the ability to extend the imagination even further, but the remove from reality that even the best animation contains means that – at least for me – actual horror or fright is in short supply.…
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Hooptober 9.0 – The Gorgon (1964)
Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2022 In my time doing this marathon over the course of nine years I have learned a lot about how horror is constructed: what works, what doesn’t, how fears transcend (or not) across cultures. But I’ve also learned more that a few things about myself as well. And one of…
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Hooptober 9.0 – The House of the Devil (2009)
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2022 After my positive experience with X, I decided to travel back to the beginning and take another look at The House of the Devil, West’s first feature from 2009. I probably hadn’t see the film since about that time, and although the years have certainly been kinder, my initial…
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Hooptober 9.0 – X (2022)
Being Film #4 for Hooptober 2022 I’ve always given writer/director Ti West credit for trying with his films. Whether it was the 80s VHS clamshell horror of debut The House of the Devil or the found footage cult madness of The Sacrament, there’s always solid filmmaking not content to merely emulate, but to live and…
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Hooptober 9.0 – Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976)
Being Film #3 for Hooptober 2022 Mako: The Jaws of Death is the prefect example of why something like Hooptober is great, and why adhering to the rules is so necessary. There’s no other way I would have watched this crazy riff on Jaws where, far from the shark being the terror, it’s the man…
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Hooptober 9.0 – Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark (2019)
Being Film #2 for Hooptober 2022 The PG-13 horror film is a tough nut to crack. There’s an unspoken rule in films where “scary” equals lots of blood and gore, and too often what I’ll lamely call YA Horror is rendered toothless. So kudos to Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark for having some…