because making the list is half of the fun (get involved: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/the-twelfth-of-hooptober-diary-of-a-madman/)
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US) (Canada, Russia, Germany, Mexico, China, Japan, Ireland, New Zealand)✅
9 decades (30s, 70s, 00s, 60s, 40s, 90s, 80s, 10s, 2020s)✅
5 Zombie Films (REC, Pontypool, Blood Quantum, One Cut of the Dead, The Sadness) ✅
3 cult or conspiracy horror films (Rosemary's Baby, The Wicker Man, Red State)✅
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead (Sinners)✅
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director (Tigers Are Not Afraid) ✅
1 Canadian film (Pontypool)✅
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,…
because making the list is half of the fun (get involved: letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/the-twelfth-of-hooptober-diary-of-a-madman/)
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US) (Canada, Russia, Germany, Mexico, China, Japan, Ireland, New Zealand)✅
9 decades (30s, 70s, 00s, 60s, 40s, 90s, 80s, 10s, 2020s)✅
5 Zombie Films (REC, Pontypool, Blood Quantum, One Cut of the Dead, The Sadness) ✅
3 cult or conspiracy horror films (Rosemary's Baby, The Wicker Man, Red State)✅
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead (Sinners)✅
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director (Tigers Are Not Afraid) ✅
1 Canadian film (Pontypool)✅
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.. (Cat People)✅
2 Post-apocalyptic horror films (10 Cloverfield Lane, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)✅
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot (In Dreams)✅
1 The animals are pissed at us film (Birds)✅
1 Silent film (Vampyr)✅
4 based on Novels (Rosemary's Baby, Carrie, Christine, The Wicker Man, Pontypool, The Wizard of Oz, In Dreams, Clown in a Cornfield)✅
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. (Behind the Mask)✅
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film (Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key)✅
1 film from 1932 (Vampyr)✅
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39) (Wizard of Oz)✅
Tobe Hooper film (The Mangler)✅