Progress: 9/34 🎃
Watched:
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) 
Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022)
Pontypool (2008) 
Red Rooms (2023) 
28 Weeks Later (2007) 
28 Years Later (2025)
eXistenZ (1999)
Pizza (2012) 
Burn Witch Burn | Night of the Eagle (1963)

Announcing the list for my 4th Hooptober! 💀

See Cinemonster’s original post HERE

And my list from last Hooptober HERE

Start: September 15, 2025
End: October 31, 2025

Watch and review all movies with tag Hooptober12

NOTE: My list follows a few extra rules. Normally, I limit myself to 5 movies per decade and 5 movies per country, with international co-productions counting once per country involved (for example, The Bloodettes is counted twice - once for Cameroon and once for France). This year, I'm watching 6 movies from America because I couldn't bring myself to cut The Stepford Wives from the list.

My other rule is that I like to include movies that I had on my lists but didn't get around to during previous Hooptobers - this year I wanted to include at least three. 

I will also watch the 3 assigned extra credit movies, but I have not counted them in my stats.

Now, here's how my list fulfills the requirements:

These movies span 24 countries: US (6), Japan (4), Canada (4), UK (4), Spain (2), Nigeria (1), Senegal (1), France (3), Belgium (1), Cameroon (1), New Zealand (1), Mexico (4), Estonia (1), Poland (1), Netherlands (1), Latvia (1), Argentina (1), Italy (1), Germany (1), Switzerland (1), Peru (1), USSR (1), Sweden (1), India (1)

These movies span 11 decades: 1910s (1), 1930s (2), 1940s (1), 1950s (1), 1960s (3), 1970s (5), 1980s (2), 1990s (2), 2000s (5), 2010s (4), 2020s (5)

5 zombie films: I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Pontypool (2008), 28 Weeks Later (2007), 28 Years Later (2025), Ojuju (2014), Black Sheep (2006)

3 cult or conspiracy films: All the Colors of the Dark (1972), History of the Occult (2020), The Transgressor (1974), The Stepford Wives (1975)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: Ojuju (2014), Atlantics (2019), The Bloodettes (2005)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Cronos (1992), Poison for the Fairies (1986), Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022)

1 Canadian film: Pontypool (2008), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), Red Rooms (2023), eXistenZ (1999)

1 former Soviet state film: November (2017), Dog of God (2025), Stalker (1979)

Most popular 1940s film that you haven't seen and can access: I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

2 post-apocalyptic: 28 Weeks Later (2007), 28 Years Later (2025), Stalker (1979)

1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: All the Colors of the Dark (1972), Paprika (2006)

1 the animals are pissed at us film: Black Sheep (2006), Black Cat Mansion (1958)

1 silent film: Eerie Tales (1919), The Vindictive Snake (1932)

4 based on novels: The Wizard of Oz (1939), Paprika (2006), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Pontypool (2008), November (2017), The Stepford Wives (1975), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen: All the Colors of the Dark (1972), Cronos (1992) (here's the list)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

1 film from 1932: The Vindictive Snake (1932)

The Wizard of Oz (1939): The Wizard of Oz (1939)

And 1 Tobe Hooper film (there must ALWAYS be a Tobe Hooper film): Eggshells (1969)

Extra Credit: Burn Witch Burn (1962), The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990), Trick or Treat (1986)

3 unwatched movies from my past Hooptober lists: Eggshells (1969), Hour of the Wolf (1968), Pizza (2012)

Misc: The Exterminating Angel (1962)

And Gothic (1986), as homework for building a Mary Shelley themed haunted house in my basement

The only movie on this list that I have already seen is The Wizard of Oz (1939). I will do my best to review them all :)