Completed and loosely ranked (excluding The Wizard of Oz because that’s an all time fave and rewatch)! Criteria is listed below and in the notes.
PREVIOUS YEARS: Hooptober 9 | Hooptober X | Hooptober 11
PERSONAL RULES: All first-time watches except for The Wizard of Oz! I've reverse engineered some movies from my HORRORx52: 2025 list into this one and my full Spooky Season 2025 list with Rewatches and New Releases included is here.
ORIGINAL LIST
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
🌎 6 countries (other than Italy or US)
1. The Vanishing (Netherlands)
2. The Night Eats the World (France)
3. Rogue (Australia)
4. Godzilla Minus One (Japan)
5. Witchhammer (Czechoslovakia)
6. Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor…
Completed and loosely ranked (excluding The Wizard of Oz because that’s an all time fave and rewatch)! Criteria is listed below and in the notes.
PREVIOUS YEARS: Hooptober 9 | Hooptober X | Hooptober 11
PERSONAL RULES: All first-time watches except for The Wizard of Oz! I've reverse engineered some movies from my HORRORx52: 2025 list into this one and my full Spooky Season 2025 list with Rewatches and New Releases included is here.
ORIGINAL LIST
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
🌎 6 countries (other than Italy or US)
1. The Vanishing (Netherlands)
2. The Night Eats the World (France)
3. Rogue (Australia)
4. Godzilla Minus One (Japan)
5. Witchhammer (Czechoslovakia)
6. Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (Poland)
⏳ 9 decades
1. Phantom of the Opera (1920s)
2. Supernatural (1930s)
3. Godzilla (1950s)
4. The Witches (1960s)
5. What's the Matter with Helen? (1970s)
6. Poltergeist (1980s)
7. Misery (1990s)
8. Shaun of the Dead (2000s)
9. The Third Saturday in October: Part V (2020s)
🧟♂️ 5 Zombie Films
1. I Walked with a Zombie
2. City of the Living Dead
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
5. The Night Eats the World
❗️3 cult or conspiracy horror films
1. The Conspiracy
2. Jug Face
3. Starry Eyes
🎬 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
His House
🗺️ 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
Alucarda
🍁 1 Canadian film
Look Away
🪆 1 Russian or former Russian state film
Sputnik
📽️ The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access
I Walked with a Zombie
☠️ 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
The Night Eats the World
It Comes at Night
💤 1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
All the Colors of the Dark
🐊 1 The animals are pissed at us film
Rogue
🤐 1 Silent film
The Phantom of the Opera
📚 4 based on Novels
1. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Based on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)
2. The Ruins (Based on The Ruins by Scott Smith)
3. Misery (Based on Misery by Stephen King)
4. Dark Harvest (Based on Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge)
📋 Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen
The Vanishing
✍️ 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
All the Colors of the Dark
🎞️ 1 film from 1932
Freaks
🌪️ I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
The Wizard of Oz
📺 And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Poltergeist
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH 1. Burn Witch Burn
2. German Chainsaw Massacre
3. Trick or Treat
