this year's rules

i can Actually Participate This Year because i have a functioning laptop once again! what a twist! i know i'll have to do some pre-watching (cube, phantasm, and slumber party massacre specifically) and maybe some pre-rewatching but hey, that's what the early part of the month is for. the only other criteria i'm giving myself aside from the rules is that these are all first-time watches

6 countries
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Germany)
- House (1977, Japan)
- Häxan (1922, Denmark/Sweden)
- Funny Games (1997, Austria)
- The Phantom Carriage (1921, Sweden)
- Train to Busan (2016, South Korea)

6 decades
- The Black Cat (1934)
- The Devil Bat (1940)
- The Fly (1958)
- Paranoiac (1963)
- Deep Red (1975)
- Xtro (1982)

7 second movies in a franchise
- Slumber Party Massacre II
- Xtro II: The Second Encounter
- The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Phantasm II
- Evil Dead II
- Spiral (1998)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)

4 body horror films
- Tusk (2014)
- Videodrome
- Scanners
- American Mary

2 films that came out in 2020
- Sputnik
- Host

3 disease-based films
- Pontypool
- The Last Man on Earth (1964)
- Black Death (2010)

the highest-rated horror film from the 1950s you haven't seen and can access
- Diabolique (1955)

1 film set entirely in one location
- Shock Waves (1977)

1 invisible person film
- The Invisible Man (1933)

1 non-Dracula Hammer film
- To the Devil a Daughter

2 films with a Black director/predominantly Black cast/Black main character
- Ganja & Hess
- The Alchemist Cookbook

1 film with a movie theater in it
- Popcorn (1991)

1 Tobe Hooper film
- Lifeforce

extra credit!
- The Witch Who Came from the Sea
- Cube 2: Hypercube