My second year participating in the annual Hooptober 🎃

Aside from a heavy focus on zombies, I aimed for the best mix of subgenres, countries, and decades I could within the rules, which are...

✅ 40/31 horror films total

✅ 10/6 countries: 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇯🇵 🇪🇸 🇧🇪 🇷🇺

✅ 11/9 decades: 1920s through 2020s

✅ 8/5 Zombie Films 🧟
White Zombie, I Walked with a Zombie, Re-Animator, Pet Sematary, 28 Weeks Later, [Rec], Evil Dead, 28 Years Later

✅ 3/3 Cult or Conspiracy Horror Films
Rosemary's Baby, Noroi: The Curse, Mandy

✅ 1 Film from a Black Director with a Black Lead
Ganja & Hess

✅ 1 Film from a Mexican or Central American Director 🇺🇾
Evil Dead

✅ 1 Canadian Film 🇨🇦
Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire, White Noise

✅ 1 Russian Film 🇷🇺
Sputnik

✅ Most Popular 1940s Film I Haven’t Seen (and can access)
I Walked with a Zombie

✅ 3/2 Post-Apocalyptic Horror Films 🌍🔥
The Mist, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Years Later

✅ 1 Film with Dreams or a Dream as Part of the Plot 😴
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

✅ 1 “The Animals Are Pissed at Us” Film 🕷️
Arachnophobia

✅ 2/1 Silent Film 🤐
The Phantom of the Opera, Faust

✅ 8/4 Based on Novels 📚
The Phantom of the Opera, Faust, White Zombie, The Wizard of Oz, Rosemary's Baby, Re-Animator, Pet Sematary, The Mist

✅ Any Film from THIS List I Haven’t Seen
The Phantom of the Opera, Rosemary's Baby, Ganja & Hess, Lifeforce, Re-Animator, The German Chainsaw Massacre, [Rec], The Mist, The Conjuring

✅ 1 Ernesto Gastaldi-Written Film
Torso

✅ 1 Film from 1932
White Zombie

✅ Required Viewing 🌈
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

✅ 1 Tobe Hooper Film
Lifeforce

✅ EXTRA CREDIT 🤓
Burn, Witch, Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre, Trick or Treat

*Any extra horror films watched between 9/15 and 10/31 will also be added

Happy Hooptober Everyone! 🎃👻🍿