Films chosen for Hooptober12 (2025 Edition).

My second (hopefully) full year of Hooptober. I finished Hooptober11 just this month with Profondo Rosso but had watched all other 30 before Halloween Last year.

This year, I actually started today so that I can finish by Halloween as I think it would be a bit hard with work.

I chose films I've never watched. Only Midsommar is a rewatch but I chose the director's cut instead which I had never watched either.

After fulfilling the rules' criteria I chose quite a few films directed by women as a personal rule too.

I'm not sure I'll do the extra work but I'll include them here anyway.

RULES
6 countries (other than Italy or US): Ended up with Germany, Canada, Mexico, Russia, UK, Japan, France, Spain and Indonesia. Additionally 2 movies include Ireland, Belgium and South Africa along with the US.

9 decades: Ended up with 11. From the 1920s to 2020s

5 Zombie Films: Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, The Girl with All The Gifts, Zombieland and One Cut of the Dead
3 cult or conspiracy horror films: Monolith (Conspiracy), The Other Lamb (Cult) and Midsommar Director's Cut (Cult)
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: Tales from the Hood by Rusty Cundieff
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Ended up with 2 Belzebuth by Emilio Portes and Vuelven (Tigers are Not Afraid) by Issa López
1 Canadian film: Black Christmas
1 Russian or former Russian state film: Sputnik
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access: Cat People
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films: Quite a few but I'm choosing both Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead.
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1 The animals are pissed at us film: The Birds
1 Silent film: Nosferatu
4 based on Novels: Audition, Knock at the Cabin, The Entity, Diabolique. The Mangler is also based on a Stephen King Short Story and The Girl with All the Gifts is also a novel.
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen: I choose a few of the list.
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: Torso
1 film from 1932: The Mummy
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
1 Tobe Hooper Film: The Mangler