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The Cinemonster list is here: The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman

31 films
→ Confirmed

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
→ England, Iran, Korea, Canada, Germany, Sweden, France, Soviet Russia

9 decades
→ We hit 11: from 1920s to 2020s

5 Zombie Films
→ Train to Busan
→ Pontypool
→ Diary of the Dead
→ Survival of the Dead
→ Maggie

3 cult or conspiracy horror films
→ Kill List
→ Invasion of the Body Snatchers
→ The Wicker Man

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
→ The Blackening

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
→ Frankenstein (Del Toro, 2025)
UPDATE: not confident Frankenstein will be in theatres anywhere near us by the end of October, since it's a Netflix deal, so replacing it with Tigers Are Not Afraid

1 Canadian film
→ Pontypool

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

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
→ Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
→ The Road
→ The Last Man on Earth

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
→ Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

1 The animals are pissed at us film
→ The Birds

1 Silent film
→ Vampyr

4 based on Novels
→ Christine
→ The Ritual
→ Let the Right One In
→ Eyes Without a Face

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
→ Cat People (1942)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
→ All the Colors of the Dark

1 film from 1932
→ Freaks

WIZARD of OZ ('39)
→ Yup

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
→ The Mangler