I did it!!!

Thanks to the Hooptober inventor Cinemonster for starting this amazing project! See his list and official rules here: The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman boxd.it/EsPD6

My first time joining officially! Finished 2025-10-25!

Legend:
☑️ = Preliminary choice of film
✅️ = Watched in Hooptober XII

I am aiming for all films to be new watches for me, except for the obligatory Wizard of Oz.

QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
33/31 watched
+ 3/3 for extra credit

✅️ 8/6 countries (other than Italy or US)
1️⃣✅️✅️🇲🇽 Mexico (Santa Sangre, Tigers Are Not Afraid)
2️⃣✅️✅️🇨🇦 Canada (Videodrome, The Divide)
3️⃣✅️✅️🇯🇵 Japan (Cure, Tetsuo, the Iron Man)
4️⃣✅️🇸🇪 Sweden (The Conference)
5️⃣✅️✅️🇬🇧 United Kingdom (The Wicker Man, Burn Witch Burn)
6️⃣✅️✅️🇧🇪 Germany (Vampyr, The German Chainsaw Massacre)
Bonus:
7️⃣✅️✅️🇨🇵 France (High Tension, Eyes Without A Face)
8️⃣✅️🇷🇺 Russia (The Queen of Spades)

✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️
✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️(20)🇺🇸 USA (Prince of Darkness, Evil Dead, Cat People, Bats, Eaten Alive, Pet Sematary, The Fog, Scream 1-5, The Blackening, Army of the Dead, RE:R, The Curse of Bridge Hollow, Beetlejuice 2, Trick or Treat, Them!)
✅️✅️🇮🇹 Italy (The Beyond, All the Colors of the Dark)

✅️ 11/9 decades
✅️ 1910 The Queen of Spades (-16)
☑️ 1920
✅️ 1930 Vampyr (-32)
✅️ 1940 Cat People (-43)
✅️ 1950 Them!
✅️✅️ 1960 Eyes Without A Face (-60), Burn Witch Burn (-62)
✅️✅️✅️✅️ 1970 Eaten Alive (-76), The Wicker Man (-73), All the Colors of the Dark, Tetsuo (-89)
✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️ 1980 Prince of Darkness (-87), Santa Sangre (-89), The Beyond (-81), Evil Dead II (-87), Videodrome (-83), Pet Sematary (-89), The Fog (-80), Trick or Treat (-86)
✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️ 1990 Bats (-99), Cure (-97), Scream (-96), Scream 2 (-99), The German Chainsaw Massacre (-90)
✅️✅️ 2000 High Tension (-02), Scream 3 (-00)
✅️✅️✅️✅️ 2010 The Divide (-11), Tigers are not Afraid (-17), RE: Retribution (-12), Scream 4 (-11)
✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️ 2020 The Conference (-23), The Blackening (-22), Army of the Dead (-21), The Curse of Bridge Hollow, Beetlejuice 2, Scream (-22)

✅️ 5/5 Zombie Films (Ranked)
✅️1️⃣ Prince of Darkness
✅️2️⃣ Evil Dead II
✅️3️⃣ Army of the Dead
✅️4️⃣ Resident Evil: Retribution
✅️5️⃣ The Beyond
Bonus:
✅️6️⃣ Pet Sematary

✅️ 3 cult or conspiracy horror films (4/3) (Ranked)
✅️1️⃣ Prince of Darkness
✅️2️⃣ Santa Sangre
✅️3️⃣ The Wicker Man
Bonus:
✅️4️⃣ All the Colors of the Dark

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
✅️ The Blackening

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
✅️ Tigers Are Not Afraid

🇨🇦 1 Canadian film 🇨🇦
✅️1️⃣ Videodrome (1983)
Bonus:
✅️2️⃣ The Divide

🇷🇺 1 Russian film 🇷🇺 or former Soviet State (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
✅️1️⃣ The Queen of Spades

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
✅️1️⃣ Cat People (Not streamable in Sweden - but I have ordered it!)

✅️ 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films (Ranked after watching)
✅️1️⃣ The Divide
✅️2️⃣ Resident Evil: Retribution

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
✅️1️⃣ Prince of Darkness
Bonus picks:
✅️2️⃣ Santa Sangre
✅️3️⃣ Pet Sematary
✅️4️⃣ All the Colors of the Dark

1 The animals are pissed at us film
✅️1️⃣ Bats (1999)
Bonus:
✅️2️⃣ Them!

1 Silent film
✅️1️⃣ The Queen of Spades (1916)

✅️ (6/4) 4 based on Novels (Ranked after watching)
✅️1️⃣ Pet Sematary
✅️2️⃣ The Wicker Man (1973)
✅️3️⃣ The Conference
✅️4️⃣ Eyes Without A Face
Bonus:
✅️5️⃣ The Queen of Spades
✅️6️⃣ Burn Witch Burn

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
✅️1️⃣ Cure
Bonus picks:
✅️2️⃣ Prince of Darkness
✅️3️⃣ Evil Dead II
✅️4️⃣ Cat People
✅️5️⃣ Videodrome
✅️6️⃣ Eaten Alive
✅️7️⃣ High Tension
✅️8️⃣ The Wicker Man
✅️9️⃣ All the Colors of the Dark
✅️🔟 Burn Witch Burn
✅️1️⃣1️⃣ The German Chainsaw Massacre
Possible additional Bonus Picks - due to way too many interesting films on The List!:
Onibaba
The Vanishing
The Slumber Party Massacre
Ichi the Killer
Cujo
Cronos
Maniac Cop
A Page of Madness

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

1 film from 1932
✅️1️⃣ Vampyr (Dreyer)

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)
✅️ Eaten Alive

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat.
✅️1️⃣ Burn Witch Burn
✅️2️⃣ The German Chainsaw Massacre
✅️3️⃣ Trick or Treat

-review them all.(eek)

Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.

🏆 GinNTonic's Hooptober XII Awards 🏆
Top 5 new discoveries:
🥇 1. Tigers Are Not Afraid
🥈 2. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
🥉 3. Cure
4. Prince of Darkness
5. Night of the Eagle a.k.a. Burn Witch Burn
Bottom 3:
💩 34. High Tension
💩 35. The German Chainsaw Massacre
💩 36. The Blackening

🏆🪦 Highest Body Count: Army of the Dead
🏆😱 Scariest: Prince of Darkness
🏆😂 Funniest: Tetsuo!
🏆😭 Saddest: Tigers are not afraid
🏆🫦 Sexiest: All the Colors of the Dark
🏆🤢 Grossest: The German Chainsaw Massacre (not complimentary)
🏆🩸 Goriest: Prince of Darkness
🏆🤯 Weirdest: Tetsuo!
🏆😴 Most boring: The Blackening
🏆🎭 Best Actress: Paola Lara (Tigers Are Not Afraid)
🏆🎭 Best Actor: Kooji Yakusho (Cure)
🏆🎭 Best Hero: Salaryman/Metal Fetischist Alloy (Tetsuo!)
🏆🎭 Best Villain: Kunio Mamiya (Cure)
🏆🎶 Best Music: Tetsuo (HM: The Wicker Man)
🏆🎥 Best Cinematography: Cure
🏆💥 Best Special Effects: Tetsuo! (HM: Videodrome)
🏆🖼 Best Set Design: Tigers are not Afraid (HM: Pet Sematary)
🏆🎬 Best Directed: Tigers are not Afraid
🏆📝 Best Story: Tigers are not Afraid
🏆✂️ Best Editing: Tetsuo!
🏆 Least popular: The Queen of Spades (1916)
🏆 Most popular: Scream (1996)
🏆 Lowest average rating: Bats (2.3)
🏆 Highest average rating: Cure (4.3)

The Devil's Rejects XII