🔪 31 days of October, 31 horror movies to watch — taking on Cinemonster’s Hooptober challenge for the ninth time!

Only a couple of rewatches for fun, but almost two-thirds of these were already on my watchlist!

As usual, I like to work through the list in release order — it’s fun to watch the progression of the genre and find some accidental themes and double-features along the way.

6 countries (excluding USA and Italy)

1. Austria — The Hands of Orlac
2. Germany — Vampyr
3. UK — The Hound of the Baskervilles
4. Japan — Cure
5. Mexico — Huesera: The Bone Woman
6. France — Under Paris

9 decades

1. ’20s — The Hands of Orlac
2. ’50s — The Hound of the Baskervilles
3. ’60s — The Whip and the Body
4. ’70s — Black Christmas
5. ’80s — Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
6. ’90s — Cure
7. ’00s — Thir13en Ghosts
8. ’10s — Cabin in the Woods
9. ’20s — Malignant

5 Zombie films

1. The Serpent and the Rainbow
2. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
3. Ravenous (2017)
4. The Dead Don’t Die
5. 28 Years Later

3 Cult or conspiracy films

1. Cabin in the Woods
2. The Invitation
3. Apostle

1 film with a Black director and lead

1. Sinners

1 film with a Mexican or Central American director

1. Huesera: The Bone Woman

1 Canadian film

1. Black Christmas

1 Former Soviet state film

1. Superdeep

The most popular film from the 1940s you haven’t seen and can access

1. Cat People (1942)

2 Post-apocalyptic films

1. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
2. Ravenous (2017)

1 Film based around dreams

1. Vampyr

1 “The animals are pissed at us” film

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles

1 Silent film

1. The Hands of Orlac

4 Films based on a novel

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles
2. The Serpent and the Rainbow
3. The Meg
4. Color Out of Space

1 Film from Cinemonster’s favourites

1. Cat People (1942)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi film

1. The Whip and the Body

1 Film from 1932

1. Vampyr

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

1 Tobe Hooper film

1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2