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Hooptober 12! (2025)

This is my anticipated horror watchlist, fitting the parameters of the challenge for Hooptober 12 (2025).

31 films - spanning at least 6 countries, and 9 decades. Including at least: 5 zombie films, 3 cult/conspiracy horror films, a film from a black director with a black lead, a film from a Mexican/Central American director, a Canadian film, a former Soviet state film, the most popular horror film from the 1940s that I haven't seen and have access to, 2 post-apocalyptic horror films, a film with dreams as part of the plot, an "animals are pissed at us" film, a silent film, 4 films based on novels, a film I haven't seen from Cinemonster's Letterboxd List of Favorite Horror Films, a film written by Ernesto Gastaldi, a film from 1932, a film by Tobe Hooper, AND... The Wizard of Oz.


Whew... that's a mouthful.

  • Let the Right One In
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • The Babadook
  • Hardcore Henry
  • Train to Busan
  • Warm Bodies
  • Braindead
  • Planet Terror
  • World War Z
  • The House of the Devil
  • Red State
  • Ginger Snaps
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • Night of the Comet
  • Crawl
  • Carrie
  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  • Silver Bullet
  • Torso
  • The Mummy
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
  • The Black Phone
  • Black Phone 2
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Silent Hill
  • Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
  • Tales from the Hood
  • Killer Klowns from Outer Space
  • Hellboy