I’ve been using Hooptober lists in order to find obscure horror movies for my spooky season watchlists for years. This, however, is my first year participating, making a list of my own and writing reviews. I honestly don’t expect to keep at it all the way through because I’ve never been very good at writing reviews, but I will try my best.

There must be 31 horror films (I’m gonna be extra): 

6 countries (other than Italy or US) 
11: Russia, Mexico, Poland, UK, USSR, Canada, France, New Zealand, Estonia, Switzerland, Iran 

9 decades 
11: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s 

5 Zombie Films 
Zombie Flesh Eaters, Cemetery Man, Fido, Chernobyl Diaries, Life After Beth 

3 cult or conspiracy horror films 
5: Videodrome, Jacob’s Ladder, In the Dark, Kill List, Weapons 

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead 
Def By Temptation 

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director 
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales 

1 Canadian film 
2: Videodrome, Fido 

1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) 
3: After Death (Russia), Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (USSR), November (Estonia) 

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access… 
Cat People 

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films 
Phase IV, Night of the Comet 

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot 
2: The Hourglass Sanatorium, Twin Peaks: The Return 

1 The animals are pissed at us film 
Black Sheep 

1 Silent film 
2: After Death, The Phantom of the Opera 

4 based on Novels 
(Note: I will be reading the novels as well) 
6: Salem’s Lot (2 adaptations), In the Dark, Under the Skin, The Haunting of Hill House (2 adaptations) 

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. 
Strange Darling 

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film 
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key 

1 film from 1932 
Island of Lost Souls 

WIZARD of OZ ('39) 

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Salem’s Lot (though I will also watch at least Texas Chain Saw, if not more Hooper) 

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

Cinemonster’s list: boxd.it/EsPD6 

I won’t be writing reviews for these, but I will supplement my Halloween + Hooptober viewings with readings and listenings (depending on whether or not time allows): 
(***paired with viewing(s))

Readings (books):
-Andrés Barba’s Such Small Hands 
-Caden Mark Gardner & Willow Catelyn Maclay’s Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema 
-David Lynch and Kristine McKenna’s Room to Dream
-H.P. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in Literature & Other Literary Essays 
-Koji Suzuki’s Dark Water 
-Lisa Morton’s trick or treat: a history of halloween
-Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese Ghost Stories 
-Michel Faber’s Under the Skin***
-Nicholas Rogers’s Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night 
-Richard Laymon’s In the Dark***
-Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House***
-Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot***
-Various Author’s Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (edited by Jordan Peele) 

Readings (shorts): 
-Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows 
-Anna Kavan’s A Bright Green Field 
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper 
-Joyce Carol Oates’s Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 
-Junot Diaz’s Monstro 
-Kelly Link’s The Summer People 
-Roberto Bolaño el hijo del coronel 
-Saki’s The Open Window*** 
-Shirley Jackson’s Paranoia 
-William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily 

Listenings 
-billy woods’s GOLLIWOG*** 
-clipping.’s There Existed an Addiction to Blood + Visions of Bodies Being Burned 
-Xiu Xiu’s Girl with Basket of Fruit + Plays the Music of Twin Peaks***