My third year doing Hooptober, and I'm more excited than ever. The list I've built for this year has some films from other challenges (Repulsion, The Tenant, The Man Who Laughs, etc from flashback challenge), some that I've just wanted to watch for a while (Who Can Kill a Child?, Tourist Trap, Cemetery Man), and some real esoteric stuff that fit well into the criteria (Singapore Sling, A Visitor to a Museum, Science Crazed). My only real rule change is that the original rules (below) call for The Wizard of Oz 1939, but I keep a no-rewatch policy for my Hooptober lists, so I substituted in The Wiz. Sorry y'all but I just rewatched Oz '39 in December, and life is too short.

I'm extremely excited for the highs and lows of this list and seeing the cool movies that all of y'all choose for your lists!

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

5 Zombie Films
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
1 Canadian film
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
1 The animals are pissed at us film
1 Silent film
4 based on Novels
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
1 film from 1932
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)

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