Gearing up for my second round of Hootober with Hooptober 12 and I’m stoked! I still haven’t forgotten about my long term goal of doing Hooptober 1-10 but that’s on the backburner until Hooptober 12 is done now!

A reminder of a couple self-imposed rules:
-Every choice must be a film I haven't seen
-No duplicates aside from the "Countries" and some "Decades" as I tried to keep it to 31 films

6 Countries (other than Italy or US)
- (UK/Ireland) Images (1972)
- (Belgium) Yummy (2019)
- (Canada) The Colony (2013)
- (Japan) Cure (1997)
- (Mexico) Blacker Than the Night (1975)
- (Russia/USSR) Day of Wrath (1985)

9 decades
-2020s Escape the Field (2022)
-2010s Cold Fish (2010)
-2000s Deadwood Park (2007)
-1990s Funny Games (1997)
-1980s Alligator (1980)
-1970s Death Walks at Midnight (1972)
-1940s Cat People (1942)
-1930s Island of Lost Souls (1932)
-1920s The Cat and the Canary (1927)

5 zombie films
- Yummy (2019)
- Night of the Comet (1984)
- Fido (2006)
- Zombies Anonymous (2006)
- Last of the Living (2009)

3 cult or conspiracy films
- Opus (2025)
- Helter Skelter (1976)
- Borderland (2007)

1 film from a black director with a black lead
- Sweetheart (2019) (JD Dillard/Kiersey Clemons)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- Blacker Than the Night (1975) (Carlos Enrique Taboada)

1 Canadian film
- The Colony (2013)

1 former Soviet State film
(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan)
- Day of Wrath (1985) (Russia)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen & can access
- Cat People (1942)

2 post apocalyptic horror films
- The Stand (1994)
- Daylight’s End (2016)

1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- Images (1972)

1 the animals are pissed at us film
- Alligator (1980)

1 silent film
- The Cat and the Canary (1927)

4 based on novels
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- The Amityville Horror (1979)
- Red Dragon (2002)
- Cemetery Man (1994)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen
- Cure (1997)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

1 film from 1932
- Island of Lost Souls

Wizard of Oz (1939)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
- Mortuary (2005)

Extra Work: Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre, Trick or Treat (1986)