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A Quarantined Halloween: How Letterboxd's Hooptober Is Salvaging The Spooky Spirit

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It's now officially spooky season, everyone! With restrictions on gatherings and people not feeling comfortable going out, it's really easy to simply think that Halloween has been cancelled this year. While that may pertain to costume parties and fun social activities like that, Halloween can live on in other ways. Members of one particular social media outlet are making sure that Halloween is just as spectacular this year as it always has been. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) Letterboxd is a film social media app where you can log the films you watch, review them, see what your friends are watching, and make new friends in the film community that have similar interests. I've been using Letterboxd for four years now to simply log the films that I watch, just to keep track as I watch so many. During quarantine this year, I decided to look further into the social elements of the app and discovered a really rich and excited horror film community that I am now