Hooptober 12: completed as of 10/28/2025
This is my fourth Hooptober, and this time it's personal. This will change about 900 times before I lock it in. Here are the links to my 2024, 2023 and 2022 lists.
Hooptober XII rules, figuratively and literally
Categories:
✓ There must be 31 horror films
✓ 6 countries (other than Italy or US): UK (The Innocents), India (Tumbbad), Japan (Onibaba), Austria (Angst), South Africa (Gaia), Mexico (Cronos), Sweden (Phantom Carriage)
✓ 9 decades: 1920s: Phantom Carriage, 1930s (Wizard of Oz), 1960s (Seconds), 1970s (Wizard of Gore), 1980s (Elvira), 1990s (Interview with the Vampire), 2000s (28 Days Later), 2010s (Tumbbad), 2020s (Good Boy), (Watcher)
✓ 5 Zombie Films: White Zombie, 28 Days Later, Burial Ground,…
Hooptober 12: completed as of 10/28/2025
This is my fourth Hooptober, and this time it's personal. This will change about 900 times before I lock it in. Here are the links to my 2024, 2023 and 2022 lists.
Hooptober XII rules, figuratively and literally
Categories:
✓ There must be 31 horror films
✓ 6 countries (other than Italy or US): UK (The Innocents), India (Tumbbad), Japan (Onibaba), Austria (Angst), South Africa (Gaia), Mexico (Cronos), Sweden (Phantom Carriage)
✓ 9 decades: 1920s: Phantom Carriage, 1930s (Wizard of Oz), 1960s (Seconds), 1970s (Wizard of Gore), 1980s (Elvira), 1990s (Interview with the Vampire), 2000s (28 Days Later), 2010s (Tumbbad), 2020s (Good Boy), (Watcher)
✓ 5 Zombie Films: White Zombie, 28 Days Later, Burial Ground, Nightmare City, Day of the Dead
✓ 3 cult or conspiracy horror films: Seconds, Popcorn, The Hunt, I'm Dangerous Tonight, Tumbbad, Viy
✓ 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: Blacula
✓ 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Cronos
✓ 1 Canadian film: Popcorn
✓ 1 Russian or former Russian state film: Viy
✓ The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access: Dead of Night
✓ 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films: 28 Days Later, Day of the Dead
✓ 1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: Popcorn, Dead of Night
✓ 1 The animals are pissed at us film: Night of the Lepus, Creepshow
✓ 1 Silent film: Phantom Carriage
✓ 4 based on Novels: White Zombie, Interview with a Vampire, Wolfen, The Innocents
✓ Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen: Onibaba, Wolfen, Blacula, Sorority House Massacre
✓ 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: Torso
✓ 1 film from 1932: Freaks
✓ I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39): Wizard of Oz
✓ And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): I'm Dangerous Tonight
*My criteria - Female Director: Watcher
*Extra credit: Trick or Treat, Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre
