Welcome, scarehounds, to the seventh circle of Hooptober!

In Dante's Inferno, the seventh circle of hell is where violent souls violently torment and entertain one another. So it's in a spirit of violent delight that I will try to complete Cinemonster's latest Hooptober challenge. This will be my third time participating, after a gruesome defeat in 2018 and an equally gruesome victory last year. As always, no more than 20% of my picks can be rewatches.

And now to fulfill a deadly series of forbidding, eldritch categories:

6 countries:

Germany: Nosferatu
UK: The Company of Wolves
Norway: Dead Snow
Japan: Pulse
Italy: Suspiria
Canada: Cube

6 decades:

1930s: Bride of Frankenstein
1950s: House on Haunted Hill
1960s: Last Man on Earth
1970s: Ganja & Hess
1980s: Creepshow
1990s: People Under the Stairs

7 2nd films of franchises (my favorite category this year—well done, Cine):

Bride of Frankenstein
Dracula’s Daughter
Aliens
Blade II
Evil Dead 2
Child's Play 2
Creepshow 2

4 body horrors:

The Fly
Tetsuo
The Thing
It Follows

2 from this year:
The Invisible Man
Gretel & Hansel

3 disease-based films:
Pontypool
Last Man on Earth
REC

Highest-rated unseen '50s horror that I can access:
House on Haunted Hill

Set entirely in one location:
The Shining

Invisible Person:
The Invisible Man

A Hammer film without Dracula:
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

2 films with a Black director or predominantly Black cast:
Ganja & Hess
Bones

A movie theater in a movie:
Final Girls

As always, one Tobe Hooper film:
Djinn

And maybe, if I have time:
Cube 2
The Witch Who Came From the Sea

I will bold titles and link to reviews as I make progress through this grim, grinning gauntlet. See you on the other side, I hope.