Welcome to my second year attempting Hooptober. Huge thanks to @Cinemonster for organising such a great challenge each year. If you want to create your own list, you can find the full details here:The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman

This year I’ve shaped my 31 films around the themes Cults, Corpses & Crocodiles 🐊💀⛪ — a mix of conspiracies, the undead, animal attacks, and supernatural horror spanning continents and decades. From Appalachian snake-handlers to Gothic corpses in Italy, from Korean zombies to Hooper’s swamp croc, here’s how I’m tackling spooky season.

QUICK COUNT 31/34
1 bonus in The Long Walk

QUICK EASY RULES

There must be 31 horror films

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
UK (The Girl with All the Gifts, The Ritual, The Wicker Man, Night of the Eagle)

- France (Martyrs, The Substance)
- South Korea (Train to Busan)
- Mexico (Isle of the Snake People)
- Canada (The Conspiracy)
- Russia (Mute Witness)
- Spain (Don’t Listen)
- Germany (Faust)
- Australia (The Invisible Man)

9 Decades
2020s (6): Barbarian (2022), Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021), Don’t Listen (2020), The Empty Man (2020), The Invisible Man (2020), The Substance (2024)
2010s (9): The Girl with All the Gifts (2016), Train to Busan (2016), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), The Babysitter (2017), Mother! (2017), Truth or Dare (2018), Doctor Sleep (2019), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), Them That Follow (2019), The Ritual (2017), The Conspiracy (2012), Martyrs (2008)
2000s (2): Crocodile (2000), Bones (2001)
1990s (3): Leprechaun (1993), Mute Witness (1995), Tales from the Hood (1995)
1980s (1): Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
1970s (3): All the Colors of the Dark (1972), Isle of the Snake People (1971), The Wicker Man (1973)
1960s (1): Night of the Eagle (1962)
1940s (1): Cat People (1942)
1930s (2): Island of Lost Souls (1932), The Wizard of Oz (1939)
1920s (1): Faust (1926)

5 Zombie Films
- Train to Busan
- Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- Isle of the Snake People
- Zombieland: Double tap

3 Cult or Conspiracy Films (overachieved):

- All the Colors of the Dark
- The Babysitter
- The Empty Man
- Martyrs
- The Substance
- The Conspiracy
- The Wicker Man
- Tales from the Hood
- Leprechaun
- Night of the Eagle
- Them That Follow

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
- Tales from the Hood

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- Isle of the Snake People

1 Canadian film
- The Conspiracy
- Martyrs

1 Russian or former Russian state film
- Mute Witness

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access...
- Cat People

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- Zombieland: Double Tap

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- All the Colors of the Dark
- Doctor Sleep

1 The animals are pissed at us film
- Crocodile

1 Silent film
- Faust

4 based on Novels
- Doctor Sleep (Stephen King)
- The Girl with All the Gifts (M.R. Carey)
- The Wicker Man (Ritual by David Pinner)
- The Empty Man (Cullen Bunn graphic novel)
- Island of Lost Souls (H.G. Wells)

Any film from THIS LIST that you haven't seen.
- The Babysitter
- Martyrs
- Mother!
- Tales from the Hood
- All the Colors of the Dark
- Bones
- Cat People
- The Invisible Man
- Island of Lost Souls

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- All the Colors of the Dark

1 film from 1932
- Island of Lost Souls

The WIZARD of OZ ('39)

1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
- Crocodile

EXTRA WORK
-Night of the Eagle (Burn Witch Burn, 1962)
- Blackest Heart (The German Chainsaw Massacre, 1990)
- Trick or Treat (1986)