If you see that I haven’t (yet) finished Hooptober X, no you didn’t.

It’s that time again: Hooptober 12.0!

Original List Here

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 horror films

6 countries (other than Italy or US)

UK: 28 Days Later (2002); 28 Weeks Later (2007); 28 Years Later (2025); His House (2020); Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (UK-Poland-Germany, 2024) 

Japan: Cult (2013)

Mexico: Santa Sangre (Mexico-Italy, 1989); Poison for the Fairies (1986) 

Canada: Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004) 

USSR: Medved Lipovaya Noga/Bear - Lime Leg (1990); Potets (1991) 

Germany: Faust (1926); Vampyr (1932); Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (UK-Poland-Germany, 2024)

France: Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)

Czech Republic: One Night in One City (2007)

Poland: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (UK-Poland-Germany, 2024)

South Africa: The Empty Man (UK-US-South Africa, 2020)

9 decades

1920s: Faust (1926) 

1930s: White Zombie (1932); Vampyr (1932); The Wizard of Oz (1939) 

1940s: Cat People (1942) 

1960s: The Birds (1963); The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)

1970s: The Amusement Park (1975); Dawn of the Dead (1978)

1980s: The Funhouse (1981); Nightmare on Elm Street (1984); Day of the Dead (1985); Poison for the Fairies (1986); Lily C.A.T. (1987); Santa Sangre (1989)

1990s: Medved Lipovaya Noga/Bear - Lime Leg (1990); Potets (1991); Tales from the Hood (1995)

2000s: American Psycho (2000); 28 Days Later (2002); Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004); 28 Weeks Later (2007); Fear(s) of the Dark (2007); One Night in One City (2007); Coraline (2009)

2010s: Cult (2013)

2020s: The Empty Man (2020); His House (2020); Mad God (2021); Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024); 28 Years Later (2025)

5 Zombie Films

28 Days Later (2002)

28 Weeks Later (2007)

28 Years Later (2025)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Day of the Dead (1985)

White Zombie (1932)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films

Santa Sangre (1989)

Cult (2013)

The Empty Man (2020)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead

His House (2020)

Tales from the Hood (1995) 

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director

Poison for the Fairies (1986) 

1 Canadian film

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004) 

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

Medved Lipovaya Noga/Bear - Lime Leg (1990)

Potets (1991) 

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

Cat People (1942) 

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films

28 Days Later (2002)

28 Weeks Later (2007)

28 Years Later (2025)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Day of the Dead (1985)

Mad God (2021)

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

Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 

1 The animals are pissed at us film

The Birds (1963) 

1 Silent film

Faust (1926) 

4 based on Novels

The Birds (1963) 

Faust (1926) 

American Psycho (2000) 

Coraline (2009)

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024) 

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

The Amusement Park (1975) 

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film

The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)

1 film from 1932

Vampyr (1932)

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)

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

The Funhouse (1981)