5th time might be the (c)harm. In addition to Cinemonster's rules, I decided to tackle every Hellraiser too.

Here's the deal...
✅ There must be 31 horror films

✅ 6 countries (other than Italy or US)
Spain - Night of the Seagulls
Sweden - Häxan
Belgium - Man Bites Dog
Canada - Spasms
Australia - Dead End Drive-In
Japan - Attack of the Mushroom People

✅ 9 decades
1920s - Häxan
1930s - The Old Dark House
1940s - I Walkes With Zombie
1960s - Attack of the mushroom people
1970s - Deranged 1974
1980s - Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1990s - Hellraiser: Bloodline
2000s - Hellraiser: Inferno
2010s - Hellraiser 2022

✅ 5 Zombie Films
1) Zedder
2) Messiah of Evil
3) Night of the Seagulls
4) Life After Beth
5) Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

✅ 3 cult or conspiracy horror films
1) Messiah of Evil
2) Night of the Seagulls
3) Spasms

✅ 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead - Candyman

✅ 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director - Darker than the Night

✅ 1 Canadian film - Spasms

✅ 1 Russian or former Russian state film - Viy

✅ The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access. - I Walked With A Zombie

✅ 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films - Dead End Drive-in + A Boy and his Dog

✅ 1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot - Dream Demon

✅ 1 The animals are pissed at us film - Spasms

✅ 1 Silent film - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

✅ 4 based on Novels
1) Hellraiser
2) Candyman
3) The Wizard of Oz
4) A Boy and his Dog

✅ Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. - Deranged

✅ 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film - Torso

✅ 1 film from 1932 - Old Dark House

✅ I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)

✅ 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - Eaten Alive
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🎃Synthesis 🎃
This year's 3 best: Haxan, The Old Dark House and Disembodied.
And a bonus shout out to Manatula!

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