Poltergeist (1982) by Tobe Hooper capitalism-related. at least managed to cross off the Tobe Hooper item of Hooptober. might try to get to the rest of the list anyway

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) randomly this movie was one of Jerry Garcia’s biggest childhood influences (since he first saw it at six years old). it was my first Universal Monsters movie and provides so much context for the Avengers to me🧛‍♂️⚰️

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my friend suggested yesterday that a general strike is not unlike a music festival, and now i can’t stop imagining it as Burning Man on easy mode

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thanks to the multi-thread hellscape (& my brain), i've been mentally mashing-mixing these tracks parallel & alternating for 4-5 days now. "You were born too soon I was born too late But every time I look at that ugly lake It reminds me of me..." "I know it's up for me If you steal my sunshine..." this is ofc normal, right?

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since i was little i had always dreamed of, when i grew up, contributing to building a bigger and faster casino that could be instrumental in corruption and political grift, and when people complained about the rich eating the poor, i could dumbfoundedly say to them, “this is crypto? no one ever promised it’d be fair, son”

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Videodrome (1983) by David Cronenberg “The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye.” rich and disturbing, a commentary on how the media we consume influences our identity. if you the social media algo for tv in this movie, the message about radicalization is still current.

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Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980) by Sammo Hung this is so fun i thoroughly enjoyed it. i had been trying to get around to watching a Sammo Hung movie since Criterion curated a playlist in his name. it’s a goofy excuse for some engaging martial arts choreography. an early Hong Kong “hopping vampire” movie— iconic!

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Death of a Unicorn (2025) by Alex Scharfman bad (derogatory), but Paul Rudd is in it and the unicorns are murderous so it’s fine

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i made the mistake of leaving the house, only to hear rem's 'man on the moon' & the lyrics hit different these days. "If you believed they put a man on the moon Man on the moon (Oh-ah-ah, oh-ah-ah, oh) If you believed there's nothing up his sleeve Then nothing is cool..."

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Woman of the Dunes (1964) by Hiroshi Teshigahara this is a horror of existence, which is the most dreadful kind. we would be told a 9-5 is utterly pointless and still go to work wagging our tails everyday. what else would we do? when do we switch from the escaping to learning how to live within the life we have been condemned to? there is no answer. we oscillate between nihilism and having the resolve not to give in to tyranny, everyday until we die. i wouldn’t have picked this for Hooptober if i had a better idea of what it was, which would have been a pity because i would probably have not gotten around to seeing it for a lot longer. this is the masterpiece people say it is, and it is for sure out of my depth— a more perceptive person watching this same movie would not be watching the same movie as me.

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i had been uninspired by music for months. i first stopped curating my playlists because everything i heard sounded dull. then i only listened to the blues and Dead and JGB because it was the only thing that didn’t bore me to death, until it all too got to be too much of a good thing, and i stopped paying attention altogether. every Friday i listened to hours of new releases waiting for that one song to jolt me out of this misery. every Friday i thought about John Keat’s La Belle Dame sans Merci because it was really dramatic like that. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. last night i went see Kamasi Washington and today i can hear music again. i don’t know how it works. i cried a tear.

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Candyman (2021) by Nia DaCosta primarily about racial justice, secondarily the importance of having in-unit washer/dryer

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The Wicker Man (1973) by Robin Hardy this is a terrifying folk horror movie. after watching Stage Fright (1987) for last year’s Hooptober i suspected i might be particularly sensitive to movies with humans wearing animal heads, and this is another data point in support— they flatten individuality and it replaces human reason with something you can’t connect with. i don’t know British horror, so at least to my untrained eye this was a novel experience. i appreciate the discussions it can provoke in connection to the idea of faith.

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The Invitation (2015) by Karyn Kusama this is why LA rich spirituality-misappropriating white people dinner parties are v. sus

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Mickey 17 (2025) by Bong Joon Ho in-your-face Donald Trump caricature movie and also it features a CGI stampede 💨💨💨

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