IT'S HOOPTOBER TIME!!! This will be my 9th year to participate and I've finished the last 5 years consecutively. Created this list late last night with my partner for our 3rd year in a row to do a collaborative list. Here's Cinemonster's year 12 list with all of the criteria.

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 horror 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 (1985)
3. Dead Heat
4. [REC]2
5. Re-Animator

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 (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)

1. Viy

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

1. Cat People (1942)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films

1. Day of the Dead
2. Blood Quantum

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)

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)

1. The Wizard of Oz

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

1. The Mangler

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).

-review them all.(eek)

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