Hooptober 2025

Original list

There must be 31 horror films

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
Spain
Canada
Mexico
Kazakhstan
Norway
Argentina
Poland
Ukraine

9 decades
20’s
30’s
40’s
60’s
70’s
80’s
90’s
2000’s
2010’s
2020’s

5 Zombie Films
Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974, Spain)
Reanimator (1985, USA)
Ravenous (2017, Canada)
Dead Snow 2 (2014, Norway/Iceland)
The Last Man on Earth (1964, USA)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films
Dark Waters (1993, Ukraine)
The Stuff (1985, USA)
Stepford Wives (1975, USA)
Alucarda (1977, Mexico)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
Blacula (1972, USA)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
GDT Frankenstein (2025, USA)
Cemetery of Terror (1985, Mexico)
Grave Robbers (1989, Mexico)
Alucarda (1977, Mexico)

1 Canadian film
Ravenous (2017, Canada)
Backcountry (2014, Canada)
Skinamarink (2022, Canada)

1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It (2020, Kazakhstan)
Dark Waters (1993, Ukraine)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access
The spiral staircase (1946, USA)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
The Road (2009, USA)
When Evil Lurks (2023, Argentina)
Mad God (2021, USA)
The last man on Earth (1964, USA)

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
Hourglass sanatorium (1973, Poland)
Twin peaks the missing pieces (2014, USA)

1 The animals are pissed at us film
Arachnophobia (1990, USA)
Eight legged freaks (2002, USA)
Backcountry (2014, Canada)

1 Silent film
Phantom of the Opera (1925, USA)
Mad God (2021, USA)

4 based on Novels
GDT Frankenstein (2025, USA)
Reanimator (1985, USA)
Phantom of the opera (1925, USA)
The Last Man on Earth (1964, USA)
The spiral staircase (1946, USA)
Stepford Wives (1975, USA)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
Blacula (1972, USA)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
The Horrible Dr Hichcock (1963, Italy)

1 film from 1932
Freaks (1932, USA)

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but 
WIZARD of OZ (1939, USA)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Invaders from mars (1986, USA)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).
Burn witch burn
German chainsaw massacre
Trick or treat