I'll start early because I won't have enough time to watch over 30 horror films while also visiting the FFCGN in October.
I don't care as much about all films being first watches this year.
[9/30]

Previous years:
Hooptober 11 (2024)
Hooptober X (2023)
Hooptober Neun! (2022)
Hooptober 8.0 (2021)
Hooptober 7.0 (2020)

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
9 decades

5 Zombie Films
(zombie flesh eaters, city of the living dead, the curse of the screaming dead, dead of night, day of the dead)
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
(apostle, occult, the wicker man)
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
(def by temptation)
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
(the man without a face)
1 Canadian film
(black christmas)
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
(november)
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
(cat people)
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
(we are the flesh, phase iv)
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
(the cell)
1 The animals are pissed at us film
(phase iv)
1 Silent film
(faust)
4 based on Novels
(the wicker man, carrie, christine, november)
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
(the cat o' nine tails)
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
(your vice is a locked room and only i have the key)
1 film from 1932
(island of lost souls)
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)
(spontaneous combustion)

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