I’m back for my second year, and ready to gorge (and gore) myself on horror all through the next two months. Round one, in September, belongs to Hooptober, put together by @Cinemonster (thank you!) The full description can be found here!

Quick and dirty rules ✏️ 

-There must be 31 horror films-

6 countries (other than Italy or US) 🗺️ 

✅ Kill it and Leave this Town (Poland, 2020)
✅ Vampire Killer Barbys (Spain, 1996)
✅ Black Circle (Finland, Sweden, 2018)
✅ Cordelia’s Children (Germany, 2015)
✅ Welcome to Hell (Argentina, 2021)
✅ Helter Skelter (Japan, 2012) 

(also adding three from the US just because I want to watch them soon - ✅ Sequence Break (2017), ✅ Killer Rack (2025), and ✅ Howard’s Mill (2021)!) 

9 decades ⏱️ 

✅ The White Reindeer (1950’s)
✅ Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell (1960’s)
✅ Love Me Deadly (1970’s)
✅ Monster of Frankenstein (1980’s)
✅ (1990’s)
✅Freaky Farley (2000’s)
✅ Uncanny Annie (2010’s) 
✅ Candyland (2020’s)

5 Zombie Films 🧟‍♂️ 

✅ Braindead (1992)
✅ Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
✅ Miss Zombie (2013) 
✅ White Zombie (1932)
✅ The Sadness (2021, rewatch because it’s about that time!)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films 🔍 

✅ Sacrifice (2021)
✅ Violator (2018) 
✅ Digging Up the Marrow (2014)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead 🎥 

✅ Ganja & Hess (1973)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director☀️ 

✅ The Incident (2019)

1 Canadian film 🐻‍❄️

✅ The Shrouds (2024)

1 Russian or former Russian state film 🪆

✅ Sputnik (2020)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access.. 👗

 ✅ The Wolfman (1941)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films 💥

✅ Final Flesh (2009)
✅ The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine (2024, rewatch because I love it)

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot 💤

✅ Heart of Midnight (1988) 

1 The animals are pissed at us film 🐻

✅ Crawl (2019)

1 Silent film 🤫

✅ The Phantom Carriage (1921)

4 based on Novels 📖 

✅ The Keep (1983)
✅ Iguana (1988)
✅ Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey (2023)
✅ Starve Acre (2023)

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

✅ Stoker (2013)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film 🔪 

✅ Torso (1973)

1 film from 1932 👴🏼

✅ Freaks (1932)

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

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) 🎃 

✅ I’m Dangerous Tonight (1990)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).

-review them all.(eek)

Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.

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Well, that’s another Hooptober in the books!! Here’s my top 10 and my bottom 5 (make that 4, actually) from this year:

Top 10

Killer Rack 🥇 
The Incident 🥈 
Helter Skelter 🥉 

4. Stoker 
5. The Phantom Carriage 
6. Love me Deadly 
7. Sequence Break 
8. Heart of Midnight 
9. The Shrouds
10. I’m Dangerous Tonight 

Bottom 4 ( in no particular order)

- Kill it and Leave this Town 
- Violator 
- Ganga & Hess
- Monster of Frankenstein