Original Hooptober 12 Challenge.

Last year was my first Hooptober, and I've been itching to give it another spin. This year I'm attempting to fit in 365 First Watches and this is the perfect challenge to include. Tried to shake it up and get a diverse selection.

Progress: 34/34

✅6 Countries (other than Italy or US) (12)
-(Spain) Horror Express, The Hanging Woman
-(UK) Horror Express, Night of the Eagle
-(Sweden) The Phantom Carriage
-(Japan) Ring
-(USSR) Viy
-(New Zealand) 30 Days of Night
-(France) Cemetery Man, Black Moon
-(South Africa) The Empty Man
-(Australia) The Babadook
-(Canada) The Babadook, The Brood
-(Mexico) Poison for Faries
-(Germany) Black Moon, The German Chainsaw Massacre

✅9 Decades (10)
-(1920s) The Phantom Carriage
-(1930s) The Wizard of Oz, White Zombie
-(1940s) The Wolf Man
-(1960s) Viy, The Whip and the Body, Night of the Eagle
-(1970s) Horror Express, The Hanging Woman, Blacula, Magic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Brood, Black Moon
-(1980s) The Beyond, Christine, Day of the Dead, The Slumber Party Massacre, Poison for Faries, Trick or Treat
-(1990s) Ring, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Cemetery Man, The German Chainsaw Massacre
-(2000s) Crocodile, 30 Days of Night
-(2010s) The Whisperer in Darkness, Banshee Chapter, Before I Wake, Suspiria, The Babadook
-(2020s) Dead Talents Society, Knock at the Cabin, The Empty Man

✅5 Zombie Films
-Horror Express, The Hanging Woman, The Beyond, White Zombie, Day of the Dead, Cemetery Man

✅3 cult or conspiracy horror films
-The Whisperer in Darkness, Banshee Chapter, Suspiria, The Empty Man

✅1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
-Blacula

✅1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
-Poison for Faries

✅1 Canadian film
-The Brood

✅1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
-Viy

✅The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
-The Wolf Man

✅2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
-Day of the Dead, Knock at the Cabin, Black Moon

✅1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
-The Wizard of Oz, Before I Wake

✅1 The animals are pissed at us film
-Crocodile

✅1 Silent film
-The Phantom Carriage

✅4 based on Novels
-The Phantom Carriage, Christine, White Zombie, The Wizard of Oz

✅Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
-The Beyond, Blacula, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Christine, Day of the Dead, The Phantom Carriage, Ring, The Wolf Man

✅1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
-The Whip and the Body

✅1 film from 1932
-White Zombie

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

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

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