this is my first year doing Hooptober :~)!! most of these are first time watches so i hope they actually match the prompts!

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
Mexico - The Scapular (1968)
Netherlands - The Vanishing (1988)
Ireland - Fréwaka (2024)
Czechoslovakia - Beauty and the Beast (1978)
Brazil - Kill Me Please (2015)
Japan - Virus (1980)

9 decades
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

5 Zombie Films
28 Weeks Later (2007)
28 Years Later (2025)
MadS (2024)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Day of the Dead (1985)


3 cult or conspiracy horror films
Starry Eyes (2014)
Ready or Not (2019)
Suspiria (1977)


1 film from a Black director with a Black lead

Tales from the Hood (1995)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)

1 Canadian film
The Changeling (1980)


1 former Soviet state film
Viy (1967)


The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access
Cat People
 (1942)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
Day the World Ended (1955)
Virus (1980)


1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)


1 The animals are pissed at us film
Grizzly
 (1976)

1 Silent film
Nosferatu (1922)


4 based on Novels
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Psycho (1960)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Salem's Lot (1979)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen
Massacre at Central High
 (1976)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
Torso (1973)


1 film from 1932
Vampyr
 (1932)

WIZARD of OZ ('39)

1 Tobe Hooper Film
Salem's Lot (1979)

EXTRA (if time) Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986)