It's the most wonderful time of the year, when the air starts to chill and the dark comes faster every day. I always begin craving horror right around now, and just in time, Cinemonster published the new Hooptober list for Year 12.
This is my third time participating, and I intend for this to be the first one I complete in its entirety. While the start date for viewing is September 15th, I'm going to probably begin on September 1st to try and allow myself time to finish before October 31st.
Previous Lists: 11 | X |
My general horror watchlist for the season: Silence of the Dans: 2025 Spooktacular
THE RULES:
There must be 31 horror films and I will review…
It's the most wonderful time of the year, when the air starts to chill and the dark comes faster every day. I always begin craving horror right around now, and just in time, Cinemonster published the new Hooptober list for Year 12.
This is my third time participating, and I intend for this to be the first one I complete in its entirety. While the start date for viewing is September 15th, I'm going to probably begin on September 1st to try and allow myself time to finish before October 31st.
Previous Lists: 11 | X |
My general horror watchlist for the season: Silence of the Dans: 2025 Spooktacular
THE RULES:
There must be 31 horror films and I will review them all
6 countries (other than Italy or US)
The Phantom Carriage (Sweden)
Vampyr (Germany)
The Girl with All the Gifts (UK)
Ring (Japan)
The Night Eats the World (France)
Exhuma (South Korea)
9 decades
1920s - The Phantom Carriage (1921)
1930s - Vampyr (1932)
1940s - The Wolf Man (1941)
1970s - Don't Look Now (1973)
1980s - Cujo (1983)
1990s - Dark Waters (1993)
2000s - Resident Evil (2002)
2010s - Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
2020s - Sinners (2025)
5 Zombie Films
Resident Evil
The Night Eats the World
The Girl with All the Gifts
28 Years Later
Night of the Living Dead
3 cult or conspiracy horror films
The Endless
The Ritual
Hereditary
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
Ganja and Hess
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
Tigers Are Not Afraid
1 Canadian film
Cube
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
Dark Waters
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access
The Wolf Man
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
It Comes at Night
The Girl With All the Gifts
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
Jacob's Ladder
1 The animals are pissed at us film
Cujo
1 Silent film
The Phantom Carriage
4 based on Novels
Cujo
The Girl With All the Gifts
Don't Look Now
Ring
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen
Brotherhood of the Wolf
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
Torso
1 film from 1932
Vampyr
WIZARD of OZ ('39)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
The Funhouse
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).
Repeat Watches:
Wizard of Oz, Night of the Living Dead, Cube, Resident Evil, Jacob's Ladder