Back on my bullshit for year number four, my dudes. Since I did this challenge last year, I have learned to drink coffee without it turning my tongue inside out from the bitterness OR using copious amounts of sugar that would play havoc with my post-bariatric body. And so, fueled by caffeine, I present to you my take on Cinemonster's fine experience.

I will begin as I did the last eleven(!) years: I would like to do 31 horror films in October, but that doesn't seem possible at the moment so I will start my 31 on September 15th.

I WILL REVIEW THEM ALL (I really mean that🤞). Those of you not new to the LB block know that horror is near and dear to my heart.

-I challenge anyone to do the same and use the TAG Hooptober12 so we can read each others stuff.

-If you are going to do it, list your link to YOUR list in the comments and i will add it to the intro to help others find your list.

QUICK EASY RULES:

(I add my own rule: they must all be first watches unless a specific film is mentioned I've already seen.)

There must be 31 horror films
Check!

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
Denmark, Germany, Mexico, The Philippines (I can never spell that right), Russia, Singapore

9 decades
20s, 30s, 40s, 70s-20s

5 Zombie Films
The Dead Are Alive!, Electric Zombies, Zombiehagen, Zombadings, Zombiepara

3 cult or conspiracy horror films
The Chill Factor, Sightings, The Vampire Conspiracy

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead Sinners
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director To Kill a Stranger
1 Canadian film Violation
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) The Ice Demon
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films Extinction, A Quiet Place
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot Dreamaniac
1 The animals are pissed at us film Killer Bees!
1 Silent film The Haunted Caste
4 based on Novels Knock at the Cabin, No One Gets Out Alive, Revival, Under the Skin (only Cinemonster could get me to watch another M. Night Shayamalan movie... or anything else containing ScarJo...)
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. Creature from Black Lake
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film Death Walks at Midnight
1 film from 1932 Doctor X
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) Crocodile (which leaves me with two unwatched Tobe Hooper movies... one of which I've been trying and failing to track down for four years...)

***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.

Now let's do that voodoo that we do so well.