Baby's first Hooptober, I'll be starting 9/15! Guidelines pasted below from Cinemonster's 12th Hooptober breakdown:

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 horror films

6 countries (other than Italy or US) (multiple per but listing one each here)
- Germany: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- United Kingdom: Burn Witch Burn (1962)
- Mexico: Even the Wind is Afraid (1968)
- Japan: Ringu (1998)
- Brazil/France: Good Manners (2017)
- India/Sweden: Tumbbad (2018)

9 decades
- 1920s: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- 1930s: Freaks (1932)
- 1940s: Cat People (1942)
- 1960s: Burn Witch Burn (1962)
- 1970s: Day of the Animals (1977)
- 1980s: The Dead Zone (1983)
- 1990s: German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)
- 2000s: Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- 2010s: Tumbbad (2018)

5 Zombie Films
- The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
- Pet Sematary (1989)
- Cemetary Man (1994)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- One Cut of the Dead (2017)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films
- The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
- Starry Eyes (2014)
- Infinity Pool (2023)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
- The Blackening (2022)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- Even the Wind is Afraid (1968)

1 Canadian film
- Ginger Snaps (2000)

1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
- Spider (1992)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
- Cat People (1942)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
- Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
- Creepozoids (1987)

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

1 The animals are pissed at us film
- Day of the Animals (1977)

1 Silent film
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

4 based on Novels
- Burn Witch Burn (1962)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- The Dead Zone (1983)
- Ringu (1998)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen
- The Blackening (2022)

1* Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspiscion (1970)
- The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
* Needed a 31st film and couldn't pick between the two!

1 film from 1932
Freaks (1932)

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but
Wizard of Oz (1939)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn (1962), German Chainsaw Massacre (1990) & Trick or Treat (1986).