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Hooptober 2025 – 🧟 Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? (@JonPaula)

Started by Letterboxd user Cinemonster's in 2014, "Hooptober" (named for renowned horror director Tobe Hooper) is an annual viewing-challenge that encourages people to watch 31 horror movies from September 15th through Halloween that fit certain criteria (see below)... and here's the movies I picked out for 2025, my 9th time participating!

Click "Read notes" to see which criteria each film satisfies. A special shout-out to ChatGPT which really helped me cross-check my work this year!

• Official Rules •

🎬 31 horror films total
🌎 6 countries (excluding Italy & US)
⏱ 9 different decades (I'm doing 10)
🧟 5 Zombie films (I'm doing 7)
🕵️ 3 Cult or conspiracy horror films (I'm doing 5)
👩🏿 1 Film from a Black…

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  • The Cat and the Canary
  • White Zombie
  • The Seventh Victim
  • A Bucket of Blood
  • Black Sunday
  • Night of the Eagle
  • Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
  • The Wiz
  • When a Stranger Calls
  • Cujo
  • The Day After
  • Night of the Comet
  • The Return of the Living Dead
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
  • Invaders from Mars
  • Night of the Creeps
  • Trick or Treat
  • Santa Sangre
  • Arachnophobia
  • The German Chainsaw Massacre
  • In the Mouth of Madness
  • The Ninth Gate
  • Stir of Echoes
  • [REC]
  • Pontypool
  • The Road
  • His House
  • Sputnik
  • Five Nights at Freddy's
  • 28 Years Later
  • Weapons