The Master List: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-cinco-your-terror-is-a-locked-room/

Summary: horror is a personal favorite genre of mine. I consider it a great honor to participate in Cinemonster's annual jamboree

Ah, it's good to be back. My 4th Hooptober (wasn't around for the first one) and I hope to do better this year than last, when other commitments made it hard for me to watch and review all the creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and altogether ooky titles I had lined up. I might not pull it off this year either, but I'll flap my wings as close to the sun as I can, and with utmost gusto. So happy to be inaugurating another autumn season doing this! Best wishes to all involved. May your dreams be haunted forevermore in the wake of our sinister festivities..

A couple programming notes for my own edification:
- with the given tasks, I was able to continue my tradition of watching the "Maniac Cop" series one Hooptober at a time. And now I've got an annual continuation of the Hammer Frankenstein movies going too. Up to '64's "Evil" this time.

- already seen "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" various times of course, but I'm elated for the excuse to watch it again. It is the royal master of ceremonies of this year's Hooptober. And it counterbalances how awful "Djinn" will probably be.

10 'Anniversary Films' (Release years end in an 8, excluding 2018)
1) How to Make a Monster (1958)
2) The Devil Rides Out (1968)
3) Even the Wind is Afraid (1968)
4) The Legacy (1978)
5) The Comeback (1978)
6) The Unnamable (1988)
7) The Nest (1988)
8) Uninvited (1988)
9) Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)
10) Cornered! (2008)

6 countries
- 1) Jigoku (1963) (Japan)
- 2) Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) (England)
- 3) Mystics in Bali (1981) (Indonesia)
- 4) The Boxer's Omen (1983) (Hong Kong)
- 5) Aenigma (1987) (Italy)(/b>
- 6) The Reef (2010) (Australia)

6 decades
- 1) The Monster (1925)
- 2) Dr. Cyclops (1940)
- 3) How to Make a Monster (1958)
- 4) The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
- 5) Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
- 6) The Unnamable (1988)

6 films from before 1970
- 1) Dr. Cyclops (1940)
- 2) The Maze (1953)
- 3) From Hell it Came (1957)
- 4) Diary of a Madman (1963)
- 5) The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
- 6) Incubus (1966)

6 films from the following: Romero, Cronenberg, Clive Barker, Terrence Fischer, Sergio Martino, Bill Lustig (mix-and-match, or all one)
- 1) The Horror of it All (1964) (Terence Fisher)
- 2) The Devil Rides Out (1968) (Terence Fisher)
- 3) Season of the Witch (1973) (George Romero)
- 4) Torso (1973) (Sergio Martino)
- 5) Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence (1993) (William Lustig)
- 6) Uncle Sam (1996) (William Lustig)

2 flying things that kill you films
- 1) Skeeter (1993)
- 2) Phantasm: Ravager (2016)

1 silent film as a tribute to "A Quiet Place"
- 1) The Monster (1925)

1 aquatic menace film as a tribute to "The Meg"
- 1) The Rift (1990)

2 women directed films
- 1) A Night to Dismember (1983) - Doris Wishman
- 2) Mirror, Mirror (1990) - Marina Sargenti

1 inanimate object comes alive film
- 1) The Lift (1983)

1 film with Barbara Crampton in it
- 1) Castle Freak (1995)

And 2 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
- 1) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- 2) Djinn (2013)

Extra Credit:
- 1) Tales from the Hood (1995)
- 2) Tales from the Hood 2 (2018)