And so it begins! My first year officially doing this challenge and looking forward to it! Gonna try to do films that I haven't gotten around to reviewing on here, some new and some rewatches. So... we'll see how it goes... 🎃

Original post with rules for Hooptober XII ⬅ here.

***My original choices to meet requirements have been removed from the list and linked at the bottom of the description. List now includes only films I've watched so far in the challenge. Also included the 3 extra credit films, but they don't count towards the 31 total films as far as I am concerned.***

✅ There must be 31 horror films - [117/31]

✅ 6 countries (other than Italy or US) [12/6]
Namibia - Dust Devil
Germany - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, L.A. Zombie, The German Chainsaw Massacre, Otto: or, Up with Dead People, Horror Heaven
Spain - 99.9: The Frequency of Terror, Pan's Labyrinth
Japan - Nuns That Bite, Serial Rapist, The Watcher in the Attic
France - In My Skin, The Living Dead Girl, Un Chien Andalou, Ogroff, Folies Meurtrières
UK - Playroom, Death Line, Taste of Fear, The Reflecting Skin, The Innocents, The Forbidden
Canada - The Dead Zone, Clown in a Cornfield
Russia - Viy
Denmark - Nightwatch (1994), Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Hong Kong - The Black Magic with Buddah
Mexico - The Vampire
Czechoslovakia - Ferat Vampire

✅ 9 decades [11/9]
1920s - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Un Chien Andalou
1930s - Doctor X
1940s - Cat People
1950s - Diabolique, The Vampire
1960s - The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals, The Boston Strangler, Black Sunday, Viy, Night of the Eagle, Taste of Fear, Castle of Evil, The Innocents
1970s - Nuns That Bite, Serial Rapist, The Watcher in the Attic, Death Falls Lightly, Death Line, Human Experiments, The Bloodstained Lawn, Obscene Desire, All the Colors of the Dark, Simon: King of the Witches, The Geek, Hotter Than Hell, House of De Sade, The Sorceress, Daughters of Discipline, The Killer Must Kill Again, Dr. Sexual and Mr. Hyde, The Rites of Uranus, Halloween, Dracula Sucks, Satan Was a Lady, Come With Me My Love, Sextool, Last House on Dead End Street, The Forbidden
1980s - The Return of the Living Dead, Demons, Forbidden World, Black Devil Doll from Hell, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child, Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3D, Phantom of the Opera (1989), Café Flesh, The Dead Zone, Wild Beasts, Ogroff, Folies Meurtrières, Splatter Farm, Night of the Zombies (1981), The Funhouse, Trick or Treat (1986), Rampage (1987), The Kindred, The Black Magic with Buddah, Intruder, The Ogre, Psycho II, The Prince of Terror, Ferat Vampire, Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Pumpkinhead, Pandora's Mirror, Corruption, FleshEater, Night of the Demons, Mr. Pumpkin, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Horror Heaven, The Midnight Hour
1990s - Playroom, 99.9: The Frequency of Terror, Gore Whore, The Agreement, Nightwatch (1994), Horrorshow, The German Chainsaw Massacre, Idle Hands, The Reflecting Skin, Def by Temptation, Dust Devil, Jack-O, Scary Movie, Night of the Demons 2, HauntedWeen
2000s - Cloverfield, In My Skin, Hayride Slaughter, Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Rejects, Otto; or, Up with Dead People, Evilution, Guts of the Gods, Legend of the Seven Bloody Torturers, Flicker, Satan's Psycho-Ghoul, House of 1000 Corpses
2010s - 10 Cloverfield Lane, Dead Body, L.A. Zombie, Night of the Living Deb
2020s - Witchboard (2024), Ransom (2021), Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever, Clown in a Cornfield, The Cyclops Diet, Self Actualization of the Werewolf Woman, The Noonday Demon

✅ 5 Zombie Films
1) The Return of the Living Dead
2) Gore Whore
3) L.A. Zombie
4) Night of the Zombies (1981)
5) Night of the Living Deb
6) Otto: or, Up with Dead People
7) Idle Hands
8) Day of the Dead
9) FleshEater

✅ 3 cult or conspiracy horror films
1) 99.9: The Frequency of Terror
2) Society
3) Human Experiments
4) All the Colors of the Dark

✅ 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead - Black Devil Doll from Hell

✅ 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director - Pan's Labyrinth

✅ 1 Canadian film - The Dead Zone

✅ 1 Russian or former Russian state film - Viy

✅ The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access - Cat People

✅ 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films -
1) 10 Cloverfield Lane
2) Café Flesh

✅ 1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot - Playroom (1990), A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child

✅ 1 The animals are pissed at us film - Wild Beasts

✅ 1 Silent film - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Un Chien Andalou

✅ 4 based on Novels
1) The Boston Strangler (1968)
2) Phantom of the Opera (1989)
3) Diabolique (1955)
4) The Dead Zone
5) Rampage (1987)
6) Clown in a Cornfield
7) The Innocents
8) Ferat Vampire
9) Dracula Sucks

✅ Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. - 10 Cloverfield Lane

✅ 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film - All the Colors of the Dark

✅ 1 film from 1932 - Doctor X

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

✅ 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - The Funhouse

*** Now that the challenge has started I have removed the ones I previously picked, but have yet to watch, from the list and included links to them below for quick reference. ***

The Wizard of Oz
Burn Witch Burn
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Trick or Treat
Invaders from Mars (1986)
L.A. Zombie
Otto: or Up with Dead People
The Living Dead Girl
Cockneys vs. Zombies
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Night Watch
Cronos
The Birds
Freaks
Un Chien Andalou
Cat People
Diabolique (1955)
All the Colors of the Dark
Rosemary's Baby
Starry Eyes
Village of the Damned (1995)
The Last Man on Earth
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde