so i definitely failed last year, but i think this year will be a lot easier since there's a few carryover from last year i didn't get to plus a some on my actual watchlist/meaning to revisit BUT ANYWAYS here's how i parsed it all out:

10 'Anniversary Films' (Release years end in an 8, excluding 2018)
-One Missed Call (2008)
-The Blob (1988)
-The Vanishing (1988)
-I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
-Kuroneko (1968)
-Night of the Living Dead (1968)
-Dracula (1958)
-Brain Damage (1988)
-Bad Biology (2008)
-Death Spa (1988)

6 countries
-Kuroneko (Japan)
-The Vanishing (Netherlands)
-Night of the Living Dead (US)
-Cache (France)
-Man Bites Dog (Belgium)
-Taxidermia (Austria)

6 decades
-One Missed Call (2008)
-The Blob (1988)
-I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
-Kuroneko (1968)
-Dracula (1958)
-Page of Madness (1926)

6 films from before 1970
-Kuroneko (1968)
-Dracula (1958)
-Night of the Living Dead (1968)
-Page of Madness (1926)
-Peeping Tom (1960)
-Onibaba (1962)

6 films from the following: Romero, Cronenberg, Clive Barker, Terrence Fischer, Sergio Martino, Bill Lustig (mix-and-match, or all one)
-Day of the Dead (Romero)
-The Dead Zone (Cronenberg)
-Dracula (Fischer)
-Maniac Cop (Lustig)
-Shivers (Cronenberg)
-The Brood (Cronenberg)

2 flying things that kill you films
-Birdemic 2: The Resurrection
-Devilman Volume 3: Devilman Apocalypse

1 silent film as a tribute to A Quiet Place
-Page of Madness

1 aquatic menace film as a tribute to Meg
-Zaat

2 women directed films
-The Bye Bye Man
-Helter Skelter

1 inanimate object comes alive film
-Death Spa

1 film with Barbara Crampton in it.
Re-Animator

And 2 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Spontaneous Combustion
Salem’s Lot

and a link to the original: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-cinco-your-terror-is-a-locked-room/