Last Hooptober I had a newborn and ya know, overestimated how much time I would have and how that would go. However, instead of trying to watch everything in the month of October I will start promptly on September 15th. Still hit 18 movies so I at least did over half.
Previous: 11
Like last time I am going to try and keep this list to first time watches where possible, also if there were films I didn't get around to last year that fit into categories this year, 100% going to include them. (Looking at you The Lighthouse)
I will mark movies with * if they are in multiple categories. (A quick aside, man it was hard to find…
Last Hooptober I had a newborn and ya know, overestimated how much time I would have and how that would go. However, instead of trying to watch everything in the month of October I will start promptly on September 15th. Still hit 18 movies so I at least did over half.
Previous: 11
Like last time I am going to try and keep this list to first time watches where possible, also if there were films I didn't get around to last year that fit into categories this year, 100% going to include them. (Looking at you The Lighthouse)
I will mark movies with * if they are in multiple categories. (A quick aside, man it was hard to find 4 based on novels that I haven't seen at some point, so a lot of modern ones in this category)
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
☠Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022) Mexico*
☠What We Do in the Shadows (2014) New Zealand
☠Infinity Pool (2023) Canada
☠The Night Eats the World (2018) France*
☠House (1977) Japan
☠A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) South Korea
9 decades
☠White Zombie (1932)*
☠Cat People (1942)*
☠Viy (1967)*
☠Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)*
☠The Funhouse (1981)*
☠Lost Highway (1997)*
☠Splinter (2008)
☠The Lighthouse (2019)
☠Shelby Oaks (2025)
5 Zombie Films
☠White Zombie (1932)*
☠The Night Eats the World (2018)*
☠The Cured (2017)
☠28 Years Later (2025)
☠Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
☠The Babysitter (2017)
☠Psychomania (1973)
☠Starry Eyes (2014)
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
☠His House (2020)
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
☠Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022) Mexico*
1 Canadian film
☠Infinity Pool (2023)*
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
☠Viy (1967)*
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
☠Cat People (1942)*
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
☠The Night Eats the World (2018)*
☠It Comes at Night (2017)
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
☠Lost Highway (1997)*
1 The animals are pissed at us film
☠Rogue (2007)
1 Silent film
☠The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
4 based on Novels
☠John Dies at the End (2012)
☠Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
☠The Long Walk (2025)
☠Frankenstein (2025)
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
Doing two movies here as one movie my wife hasn't seen
☠10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
☠Cat People (1942)*
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
☠Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)*
1 film from 1932
☠White Zombie (1932)*
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
☠WIZARD of OZ (1939)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
☠The Funhouse (1981)*
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).
