Once again tackling Hooptober, and once again not allowing myself to count films for more than one category. I've never once finished a list by Halloween, and maybe next year I'll only stick to 31 movies BUT each year there's always hope of getting through all of them, and I have that again. So, a bloated list it is!

Here's to another year of film, spooks, cool air, and ghosts. Let the games begin!

Here's the rundown:
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
1- Nosferatu (Germany)
2- Dead End Drive-In (Australia)
3- Perfect Blue (Japan)
4- The Incredible Truth (China)
5- Demonte Colony (India)
6- Al Sajeen (Egypt)

9 decades:
1- The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
2- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)
3- The Cat and the Canary (1927)
4- Phantom of the Opera (1943)
5- The House That Screamed (1969)
6- Deep Red (1975)
7- The Lost Boys (1987)
8- Let The Right One In (2008)
9- Together (2025)✅

5 Zombie Films
1- Revolt of the Zombies
2- The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
3- Night of the Living Dead
4- Zombie High
5- The Crazies

3 cult or conspiracy horror films
1- Suspiria (1977)
2- The House of the Devil
3- Martha Marcy May Marlene

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
1- Black Box

1 film from a Mexican director
1 - Time Share

1 Canadian film
1 - Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

1 former Soviet state film (Ukraine)
1- Let It Snow

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
1- The Spiral Staircase

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
1 - Escape From New York
2 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
1 - Dreamscape

1 The animals are pissed at us film (Complete)
1 - Dangerous Animals ✅

1 Silent film
1 - The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

4 based on Novels
1 - Misery
2 - Silence of the Lambs
3 - Valentine
4 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter✅

Any film from the OG list that you haven't seen
1 - I Married a Witch

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
1 - The Murder Clinic

1 film from 1932
1 - Freaks

THE WIZARD of OZ ('39)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film
1 - Body Bags

Extra Credit Films: Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).