Despite being a big horror fan who has been on Letterboxd for a while I have somehow never done a Hooptober. Until now!

Special thanks to a few things that will be helping me fill out my list. First of all the Mayhem Film Festival and the Forbidden Worlds Film Festival who are both running some top genre fare that will be on this list. 20th Century Flicks for being able to supply me with what the increasingly atomised streaming services can not. The Cube and The Watershed for having some good screenings for spooky season. On top of that Rarefilmm.com has some truly obscure works for my list. Plus my massive Blu-ray backlog that I’m hopefully going to make a dent in this Spooky Season. 🎃

Plus I’m including my annual watch of the WNUF Halloween Special.

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 horror films

6 countries (other than Italy or US) - Australia 🇦🇺, Canada 🇨🇦, Czechoslovakia/Czechia 🇨🇿, Netherlands 🇳🇱, Guatemala 🇬🇹, India 🇮🇳, Iran 🇮🇷, Japan 🇯🇵, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, Palestine 🇵🇸, The Philippines 🇵🇭, Poland 🇵🇱, Senegal 🇸🇳, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

9 decades - 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, 2010’s, 2020’s

5 Zombie Films - Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), The Girl With All The Gifts (2016), Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films - The Void (2016), Thirst (1979), Seconds (1966)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead - Saloum (2021)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director - La Llorona (2019)

1 Canadian film - The Void (2016)

1 former Soviet state film - Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It (2020)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access - The Spiral Staircase (1946)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films - The Omega Man (1971), The Girl With All The Gifts (2016)

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot - Footprints on the Moon (1975)

1 The animals are pissed at us film - Jallikattu (2019)

1 Silent film - The Magician (1926)

4 based on Novels - The Magician (1926), Carrie (1976), The Cremator (1989), The Omega Man (1971)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film - The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)

1 film from 1932 - Doctor X (1932)

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39) - The Wizard of Oz (1939)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - Lifeforce (1985)

Free space - Kisapmata (1981), Body Melt (1993), Ghostwatch (1992), A House in Jerusalem (2023), Chess of the Wind (1976), Dead by Dawn (2025), Mag Mag (2025), WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Bonus films (films not originally in my list, but added later as I watched them in a theatre and decided they were worth including - Wolf’s Hole (1987), The Long Walk (2025), Vampire’s Kiss (1988), Maniac Cop (1988), Bugonia (2025), Whistle And I’ll Come To You (1968), Frankenstein (2025), Game (2025), Man Finds Tape (2025), Event Horizon (1997), Bone Lake (2024), Heresy (2024), The Occupant of the Room (2025), Portal to Hell (2025), Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006), Sisters (1972), Perfect Blue (1997), Long Weekend (1978), Next of Kin (1982), Fair Game (1986), Razorback (1984), The Fog (1980), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)