My eternal gratitude to Cinemonster for this the eighth (my sixth) installment of our world’s greatest tradition. Also, Nataliya, I am, as you know, psyched as hell that you’ll be joining us this year, and thank you for putting up with me redirecting all our recent conversations toward Hooptober. Happy Hooptober/Halloween, everybody. 

Cinemonster’s list & rules  

6 countries [Chile (Hidden in the Woods); Egypt (Dawn of the Mummy); Germany (Nekromantik); Japan (Mothra vs. Godzilla, etc.); Mexico (Blacker than the Night); Russia (The Queen of Spades)]

8 decades [10s, 30s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s]

2 folk horror [The Devil Rides Out; The Witches]

4 films from 1981 [The Black Cat, Burial Ground, Dawn of the Mummy, Just Before Dawn]

2 films from your birth year [Child's Play 2; Spontaneous Combustion]

2 haunted house films [Blacker than the Night; Ju-On: The Grudge 2]

The worst Part 2 that you haven't seen and can access. [The Ouija Experiment 2: Theatre of Death]

1 film set in the woods [Just Before Dawn]

1 Kaiju or Kong film (not the new K v. G) [Mothra vs. Godzilla]

2 Hammer films [The Devil Rides Out; The Witches]

3 films with a person of color as director or lead. (excluding Asian) [Blacker than the Night; Dawn of the Mummy; Hidden in the Woods]

3 Asian horror films. [Cold Fish; Ju-On: The Grudge 2; Mothra vs. Godzilla]

And 1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) [Spontaneous Combustion]

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH JD's Revenge, The Skull and The Scooby Doo Project