Well, as I anticipated, I did fail to make it through my list last year, but I am one of those guys, who tends to pick himself up and try again whenever he falls short in something. I am always a little hamstrung when it comes to doing this, because every year I go to Europe for two weeks in the middle of October and am never able to get any viewing done there. I might, therefore, be just a smidge late in finishing. I do hope this year to do right by Misters (masters) Hooper, Romero, and Craven, and give them the due honor they deserve.

Here are the rules (along with my selections) as laid out by Cinemonster letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-cinco-your-terror-is-a-locked-room/

10 'Anniversary Films' (Release years end in an 8, excluding 2018): Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Piranha, Damien: Omen II, Hour of the Wolf, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, Brain Damage, Jaws 2, Damien: Omen II, Child’s Play, Maniac Cop, Dead Ringers

6 countries: Deep Red (Italy), Haxan (Denmark), Hour of the Wolf (Sweden), Kwaidan (Japanese), Goodnight Mommy (Austrian), Videodrome (Canadian)

6 decades: Haxan (1920s), Abbott and Costello (1940s), Hour of the Wolf (1960s), Piranha (1970s), Hellraiser (1980), The Love Witch (2010s)

6 films from before 1970: Haxan (1922), Abbott and Costello (1948), The Mummy (1959), the Birds (1963), Kwaidan (1965), Hour of the Wolf (1968)

6 films from the following: Romero, Cronenberg, Clive Barker, Terrence Fischer, Sergio Martino, Bill Lustig (mix-and-match, or all one): Hellraiser, Monkey Shines, Maniac Cop, Dead Ringers, Videodrome, The Mummy

2 flying things that kill you films: Birds, Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead

1 silent film as a tribute to A Quiet Place: Haxan

1 aquatic menace film as a tribute to Meg: Jaws 2

2 women directed films: Jennifer’s Body, Love Witch

1 inanimate object comes alive film: Child’s Play

1 film with Barbara Crampton in it: Beyond the Gates

And 2 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): Spontaneous Combustion, Eaten Alive