My first attempt at Hooptober, excited to try it out!

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
Japan - One Cut of the Dead ✅
Mexico - Cronos ✅
England - The Wicker Man ✅
Germany - Nosferatu ✅
South Korea - Train to Busan ✅
France - Raw ✅
9 decades

1930s - Freaks ✅
1940s - Cat People ✅
1950s - Curse of Frankenstein ✅
1960s - Onibaba ✅
1970s - The Wicker Man ✅
1980s - Poltergeist ✅
1990s - Cronos ✅
2000s - Dawn of the Dead ✅
2010s - Sinister ✅
2020s - The Empty Man ✅

5 Zombie Films
- Dawn of the Dead (1978) ✅
- Dawn of the Dead (2004) ✅
- Train to Busan (2016) ✅
- Re-Animator (1985) ✅
- One Cut of the Dead (2017) ✅
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
- The Empty Man (2020) ✅
- The Wicker Man (1973) ✅
- The Invitiation (2015) ✅
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
- Nope (2022) ✅
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- Cronos (1992) ✅
1 Canadian film
- Sinister (2012) ✅
1 Russian or former Russian state film
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) ✅
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
- Cat People (1942)✅
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
- Dawn of the Dead (1978) ✅
- Dawn of the Dead (2004) ✅
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- Black Phone 2 (2025) ✅
1 The animals are pissed at us film
- Cujo (1983) ✅
1 Silent film 
- Nosferatu (1922) ✅
4 based on Novels
- Cujo (1983) ✅
- The Shining (1980) ✅
- Carrie (1976)✅
- Gerald’s Game (2017) ✅
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
- Onibaba (1964) ✅
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- All the Colours of the Dark (1972) ✅
1 film from 1932
- Freaks (1932) ✅
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) ✅
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
- Poltergeist (1982)✅

The films at the end are more mainstream horrors I wanted to watch again!

Viewing order:

1: Poltergeist (1982) - 3.5/5
2: Cat People (1942) - 3/5
3: Carrie (1976) - 4/5
4. Dawn of the Dead (1978) - 3.5/5
5. The Invitation (2015) - 3.5/5
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - 4.5/5
7. Nosferatu (1922) - 4/5
8. Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - 3.5/5
9. Gerald’s Game (2017) - 4.5/5
10. Nope (2022) - 4.5/5
11. The Empty Man (2020) - 3/5
12. Raw (2016) - 4.5/5
13. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) - 1.5/5
14. Good Boy (2025) - 3/5
15. Corpse Bride (2005) - 4/5
16. Frankenstein (2025) - 3.5/5
17. The Thing (1982) - 4.5/5
18. One Cut of the Dead (2017) - 4.5/5
19. Cujo (1983) - 3/5
20. Cronos (1992) - 3.5/5
21. Black Phone 2 (2025) - 2.5/5
22. Re-Animator (1985) - 4/5
23. The Shining (1980) - 5/5
24. Onibaba (1964) - 4/5
25. Dawn of the Dead (2004) - 3.5/5
26. Sinister (2012) - 3.5/5
27. Train to Busan (2017) - 4.5/5
28. The Wicker Man (1973) - 5/5
29. All the Colours of the Dark (1972) - 3.5/5
30. Intruder (1982) - 3.5/5
31. Freaks (1932) - 3.5/5