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HoopTober is a month-long horror movie marathon in honour of the late film maker Tobe Hooper. You may know him for the directing of movies such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist, a true horror master. HoopTober is an event that came to exist on the film logging website Letterboxd, created by user Cinemonster. The community has now reached its 4th year of HoopTober, and, sadly, it's first occurrence after the death of Tobe Hooper himself. This is also the first year I decided to participate The challenge is to watch 31 movies in the month of October. Every participant creates their own watchlist based on a set of criteria. You can find the official HoopTober  here. The Challenge: 31 movies: - 6 sequels - 6 countries - 6 decades - 6 films from before 1970 - 6 films by a following film maker: Carpenter, Raimi, Whale, Browning, Craven, Tom Holland - 3 films with people eating people (no zombies allowed) - 1 Hammer film - 1 Romero film from the Dead series

It's been a while since I last blogged, but if there is any moment for me to revive my blog, it's autumn. No time of the year do I feel so alive as I do in October. You can blame it on the back-to-school craze. I live for buying school supplies and fresh new starts of a new school year. And, of course, the resolutions to get organised with that, even now, long after finishing school. You can blame it on the weather. Finally it's not bloody hot anymore outside. I don't melt into sweat and rashes. I can wear jumpers again! The leaves on the trees change into beautiful shades of orange and red. We get rain, thunder, wind, and instantly it gets cosy indoors. (also, nothing gets as cosy as my Tumblr dash during autumn, cue the scrolling of books, tea and blanket forts.) But most of all, blame Halloween. We don't celebrate Halloween here in the Netherlands, apart from the occasional party here and there, but I do love me some horror. And even though I watch horr