Average rating: 60.7%

It's annoying to look back at Hooptober Se7en and acknowledge that we are as much in a pandemic now as we were at that time. At least we have vaccines this time, but on the whole society is not really looking any better than the horror show it made itself out to be last year, which once again renders a challenge like Hooptober utterly redundant. Still, the horrors you see on the big screen are a lot more fun than the ones you read about in the papers, so here we go again. Cinemonster's master list is here for those who are curious.

Just like last year, I had a new season of Higurashi When They Cry to watch alongside these movies (the last few episodes of SOTSU aired during the challenge period), so that's another little corollary to enjoy. This was very nearly my first Hooptober list on which the USA was outnumbered by another country (Japan), but I decided that Wolf Guy didn't really fit the bill, so I had to swap it out and thus Japan and the USA are tied. This is still my most international Hooptober so far, though, with a total of 16 countries represented.

I finished this Hooptober at 11:44 pm on October 29th.

6 countries:
Japan: Tokyo Living Dead Idol, Wicked City, Rodan, Kwaidan, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
UK: Robin Redbreast, The Blood on Satan's Claw, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, The City of the Dead
USA: Body Bags, Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, Interview With the Vampire, Def by Temptation, Ganja & Hess
Italy: The Beyond, Cannibal Ferox, Creatures From the Abyss, Santa Sangre, Dawn of the Mummy
Portugal: The Territory
Canada: My Bloody Valentine, Ravenous
Spain: Don't Listen
Hong Kong: Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Estonia: Lake Bodom
Finland: Lake Bodom
Germany: The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Mexico: Santa Sangre
South Korea: 301/302, The Red Shoes
Cambodia: Lady Vampire
Ghana: Abro Ne Bayie
Taiwan: Hospital

8 decades:
1920s: The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1950s: Rodan
1960s: The City of the Dead, Kwaidan
1970s: Robin Redbreast, The Blood on Satan's Claw, Ganja & Hess, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
1980s: The Beyond, The Territory, My Bloody Valentine, Cannibal Ferox, Dawn of the Mummy, Wicked City, Santa Sangre
1990s: Def by Temptation, Body Bags, Creatures From the Abyss, Interview With the Vampire, 301/302
2000s: Lady Vampire, The Red Shoes, Abro Ne Bayie, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
2010s: Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, Lake Bodom, Ravenous, Tokyo Living Dead Idol
2020s: Don't Listen, Hospital

2 folk horror films:
Robin Redbreast
The Blood on Satan's Claw
Lady Vampire
The City of the Dead
Kwaidan

4 films from 1981:
The Beyond
The Territory
My Bloody Valentine
Cannibal Ferox
Dawn of the Mummy

2 films from the year you were born (1994):
Creatures From the Abyss
Interview With the Vampire

2 haunted house films:
The Beyond
Don't Listen

The worst "Part II" film you have not yet seen:
Birdemic 2: The Resurrection

1 film set in the woods/wilderness:
The Territory
Lake Bodom
Ravenous

1 kaiju or Kong film (not Godzilla vs. Kong):
Rodan

2 Hammer films:
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

3 films with a person of color as director or lead (non-Asian):
Def by Temptation
Ganja & Hess
Abro Ne Bayie

3 Asian horror films:
Tokyo Living Dead Idol (Japan)
Wicked City (Japan)
Rodan (Japan)
Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (Hong Kong)
301/302 (South Korea)
Lady Vampire (Cambodia)
The Red Shoes (South Korea)
Hospital (Taiwan)
Kwaidan (Japan)
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (Japan)

1 Tobe Hooper film:
Body Bags