I've been waiting all year for this and I'm SO excited for my fourth year of Hooptober :)

Tubi, Hoopla, Kanopy, and The Internet Archive will be my (and your 🫵) greatest tools when tackling this watchlist. So if you don't have a library card, you're seriously missing out!

Cinemonster's original list (+rules) here

6 countries (other than Italy or US):
[X] Senegal - Saloum (2021)
[X] Hong Kong - Dumplings (2004)
[X] Canada - Clearcut (1991)
[] Malaysia - Tiger Stripes (2023)
[] Spain - Rapture (1979)
[] USSR - Stalker (1979)

9 decades:
[X] 1920s - Häxan
[X] 1930s - The Old Dark House
[] 1950s - Godzilla
[X] 1960s - The Whip and the Body
[] 1970s - Rapture
[X] 1980s - Brain Damage
[X] 1990s - Poison
[X] 2000s - Dumplings
[X] 2020s - The Long Walk

5 Zombie Films:
[] Army of Darkness (1992)
[] Cemetery Man (1994)
[] The Hole (1998) could be a bit of a stretch but needed to mix it up lol
[X] Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
[X] T Blockers (2023)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films:
[X] The Wicker Man (1973)
[X] The Stuff (1985) rewatch!
[X] They Live (1988)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead:
[X] Ganja & Hess (1973)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director:
[X] Poison for the Fairies (1986)

1 Canadian film:
[X] Pin (1988)

1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan):
[] Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1979)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access:
[X] The Wolf Man (1941)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films:
[X] The Last Man on Earth (1964)
[] Stalker (1979)

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot:
[X] Repulsion (1965)

1 The animals are pissed at us film:
[X] Of Unknown Origin (1983) 🐀

1 Silent film:
[X] Häxan (1922)

4 based on Novels:
[X] The Wicker Man (1973)
[] Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
[X] Audition (1999)
[X] Frankenstein (2025)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen:
[X] Dead Ringers (1988)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film:
[X] The Whip and the Body (1963)

1 film from 1932:
[X] The Old Dark House (1932)

WIZARD of OZ ('39):
[]The Wizard of Oz (1939)

1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film):
[X] The Funhouse (1981)