Once you see it... you'll feel it the rest of your life!
Lock the doors, sharpen the stakes - it's HoopTober time again, marking my 12th journey into HoopTober madness (and the 9th with the bonus round).

Big thanks to the legend himself, CINEMONSTER - give a big shout out to the man; hail to the king, baby!

This year's stack is a grab-bag of cult conspiracies, trashy treasures, surreal dreamscapes, and enough chainsaws, devils, and demons to keep October deliciously haunted.

And for the curious: I'm starting with only 8% watched (3 of 34).

- Click here to read all my reviews tagged for this year's Hoop-tober.

- Click here to see mine Hoop-tober index.

RULES:
6 countries (other than Italy or US):

Canada, Czech, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Sweden, UK, and USSR

9 decades:

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, and 2020

5 Zombie films:

- Bloody New Year
- Doctor Butcher M.D.
- Garden of the Dead
- Operation Undead
- Zombie Flesh Eaters 2

3 cult or conspiracy horror films:

- The Brotherhood of Satan
- Time Share
- Under the Silver Lake

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead:

- The Blackening

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director:

- Time Share

1 Canadian film:

- Spasms

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

- Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel

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

- Cat People

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films:

- Kuso
- The Day

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

-Paperhouse

1 The animals are pissed at us film:

- Spasms

1 Silent film:

- The Phantom Carriage

4 based on Novels:

- Bad Ronald
- Fear Street: Prom Queen
- The Stepford Wives
- Witchhammer

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

- The Killing of a Sacred Deer

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film:

- All the Colors of the Dark

1 film from 1932:

- The Old Dark House

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film):

- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK::

- Night of the Eagle
- The German Chainsaw Massacre
- Trick or Treat

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Aaaaand review them all !