IT'S ALIIIIIIVE!!!

Greetings ghoulies!

I'm coming to you live from my 3rd Hooptober! So excited to do this again with you all, truly look forward to this all year. I'm very excited to peruse some lists and get inspired!
Thank you cinemonster and all the other hooptoberers who make this possible, us horror geeks and freaks are forever grateful 🖤
(May or may not be under construction)
Kicking off September 11th once again due to time constraints!
Now, let's get SPOOKY 👻

You can view Cinemonster's list here!

These are this year's rules with my accompanying films:

There Must be 31 Films:

6 Countries:

Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer (Japan)
Vampyr (France/Germany)
Pontypool (Canada)
Train to Busan (South Korea)
Viy (Russia)
The Phantom Carriage (Sweden)

9 Decades:

Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Hereditary (2018)
Night of the Eagle (1962)
Vampyr (1932)
Don't Look Now (1973)
American Psycho (2000)
Sinners (2025)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
The Thing (1982)

5 Zombie Films:

Train to Busan (2016)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
28 Days Later (2002)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1985)

3 Cult/Conspiracy Horror Films:

Hereditary (2018)
Don't Look Now (1973)
The Seventh Victim (1943)

1 Film with a Black Director and a Black Lead:

Sinners (2025)

1 Film from a Mexican or Central American Director:

Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse (2024)

1 Canadian Film:

Pontypool (2008)

1 Former Soviet State Film:

Viy (1967)

The most popular 1940s Movie That You Haven't Seen and Can Access:

The Seventh Victim (1943)

2 Post Apocalyptic Horror Films:

28 Days Later (2002)

Train to Busan (2016)

1 Film with Dreams or a Dream as Part of the Plot:

Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

1 "The Animals are Pissed at Us" Film:

Frogs (1972)

1 Silent Film:

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

4 Based on Novels:

The Devils (1971)
Nosferatu (1922)
Carrie (1976)
American Psycho (2000)

Any Film from THIS List That You Haven't Seen:

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi Written Film:

Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

1 Film from 1932:

Vampyr (1932)

1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Tobe Hooper Film):

The Funhouse (1981)

and, The Wizard of Oz