Hello friends, lurkers, and new faces! It's been a bad year for movies in general with me, as I've stuck to needing the comfort of rewatching TV shows and knowing what I'm getting into before I watch. This year was just a year of not taking many risks compared to previous years.

But I look forward to Hooptober every year, and this is my 5th year joining now. Which is insane to think I've been on letterboxd that long. But I've started watching far more movies these past 5 years than I ever would have sought out myself, so I wanted to keep up with that tradition this year. I purposefully went out of my way to include movies of as many different countries (some films are joint efforts by two countries as well) as I could while being within the Hooptober guidelines. I've often found some of my favorite movies by forcing myself to watch something new, so I hope this will help give me some new ideas for my own writing to be inspired by.

6/34 Films

QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US): [16 total]: USA (15) Canada (3) UK (2) Italy (2) Spain (2) Czechoslovakia (1) New Zealand (1) Japan (1) Mexico (1) South Korea (1) Germany (1) Estonia (1) France (1) Malaysia (1) Norway (1) Sweden (1)
9 decades: [10 total]

5 Zombie Films: The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, Diary of the Dead, My Dead Girlfriend, Deadgirl, Seoul Station
3 cult or conspiracy horror films: Scanners, Stakeland, Kristy
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: Eve's Bayou
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: We Are What We Are
1 Canadian film: Scanners, My Dead Girlfriend, Diary of the Dead
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: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
2 Post-Apocalyptic horror films: A Boy and his Dog, A Quiet Place: Day One
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: Repulsion
1 The animals are pissed at us film: Piranha
1 Silent film: The Unknown
4 based on Novels: The Old Dark House, The Wizard of Oz, A Boy and his Dog, Something Wicked this Way Comes, Phantoms
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.: Bad Taste
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: All the Colors of the Dark
1 film from 1932: The old Dark House
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): Toolbox Murders

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