Year 3 to participate! The countdown to compiling our lists is always so exciting. Erik had band practice when the criteria dropped, so I distracted myself with Buffy until he was able to check out this year's challenge with me (I actually ended up reading it to him over the phone as he drove the hour back home :-D). Here are our selections based on
Cinemonster's criteria. I'm excited that all but 1 of these are new to me. Happy Spooky Season, y'all!

QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films

6 countries (other than Italy or US)

1. Censor (UK)
2. Let the Right One In (Sweden)
3. The Ugly Stepsister (Norway)
4. Diabolique (France)
5. Huesera: The Bone Woman (Mexico)
6. Double Blind (Ireland)

9 decades

1. The Mummy (1930s)
2. Cat People (1940s)
3. Diabolique (1950s)
4. Torso (1970s)
5. Death Spa (1980s)
6. Scream (1990s)
7. I Know Who Killed Me (2000s)
8. The Lodge (2010s)
9. The Long Walk (2020s)

5 Zombie Films

1. Blood Quantum
2. Day of the Dead
3. Dead Heat
4. Re-animator
5. [REC]2

3 cult or conspiracy horror films

1. The Ritual
2. The Wicker Man (2006)
3. The Empty Man

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead

1. His House

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director

1. Huesera: The Bone Woman

1 Canadian Film

1. Blood Quantum

1 former Soviet state film

1. Viy

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

1. Cat People

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films

1. Blood Quantum
2. Day of the Dead

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot

1. Double Blind

1 The animals are pissed at us film

1. Alligator

1 silent film

1. Faust (1926)

4 based on Novels

1. Bones and All
2. Diabolique
3. Let the Right One In
4. The Sentinel

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.

1. The Final Girls

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film

1. Torso

1 film from 1932

1. The Mummy (1932)

Last Required (before Hooper):

The Wizard of Oz

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

1. The Mangler

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We're gunna try to do the bonus films this year, too!: Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre, and Trick or Treat (1986).