As ever I will be trying to watch 31 horror films between October 1st and October 31st.

I will also be incorporating the ongoing year long Cult Movie Challenge;

Week 40: Oct. 1-Oct. 7 Gothic Horror Week
- The Phantom of the Opera (1929)
Week 41: Oct. 8-Oct. 14 Zombie Week
- The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
- Cargo (2017)
Week 42: Oct. 15-Oct. 21 Shock Theater Week
- The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Week 43: Oct. 22-Oct. 28 Slasher Week
- Happy Death Day (2017)
- Wolves at the Door (2016)
Week 44: Oct. 29-Nov. 4 Werewolf Week
- Lone Wolf (1988)

AND

be trying to tick off the criteria for Hooptober 6;

• 6 countries
- Deep Freeze (USA)
- The Oily Maniac (Hong Kong)
- Split Second (USA/UK)
- The Girl with All the Gifts (UK)
- Cargo (Australia)
- The Haunting of Sharon Tate (USA/Mexico)
- The Specter’s Road (Mexico)

• 6 decades
- The Haunted Hotel (1900's)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1920's)
- Betty Boop’s Hallowe’en Party (1930's)
- The Mummy's Hand (1940's)
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1950's)
- The Specter’s Road (1960's)
- The Oily Maniac (1970's)
- The Stuff (1980's)
- Split Second (1990's)
- Deep Freeze (2000's)
- Head (2010's)

• 6 films from before 1966
- The Haunted Hotel (1907)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1929)
- Betty Boop’s Hallowe’en Party (1933)
- The Mummy's Hand (1940)
- Dead of Night (1945)
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)

• 6 films whose year ends in '6'
- The Reptile (1966)
- The Oily Maniac (1976)
- Evil Bong (2006)
- The Gingerdead Man (2006)
- The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
- Wolves at the Door (2016)
- All Hallow’s Eve (2016)

• 6 films featuring work from the following: John Carl Buechler, Jack Pierce, Rob Bottin, Screaming Mad George, Lon Chaney and Carlo Rambaldi
- The Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney)
- Deep Freeze (John Carl Buechler)
- Evil Bong (John Carl Buechler)
- The Mummy's Hand (Jack Pierce)
- The Gingerdead Man (John Carl Buechler)
- Mausoleum (John Carl Buechler)

• The 6th film of a franchise
- Amityville: It’s About Time (1992)

• 1 Reptile Rampage film
- The Reptile (1966)

• 2 women directed films
- Cargo (Yolanda Ramke)
- Carrie (Kimberly Peirce)

• The lowest rated film from the 80s that you can access
- Frankenstein Island (1981)

• 1 film where the men and women of the church are having a bad day
- Def by Temptation (1990)

• 1 Larry Cohen or Dick Miller film
- The Stuff (Larry Cohen)

• 1 Classic Universal
- The Phantom of the Opera (1929)
- The Mummy's Hand (1940)

• 1 film with Dee Wallace in it
- All Hallow’s Eve (2016)

• 1 film with a black director or predominantly black cast.
- Def by Temptation (1990)

• 1 film from a Mexican director (NO GDT)
- The Specter’s Road (Gilberto Martínez Solares)

• 1 Tobe Hooper Film
~ Headcheese (2001)