A chill in the air, crisp leaves underfoot, pumpkins appearing on stoops, a mass of great people flocking to Letterboxd to take part in Hooptober; i.e., the best damn time of the year.

My eight go-round with Hooptober, and per my own personal rules, every film I watch for the main categories will be a first-time watch (except the extra credit film The Skull, which I've seen before).

QUICK EASY RULES:

6 countries (Complete!)
- USA, Japan, United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, France

8 decades (Complete!)
- 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, 2010's

2 folk horror (Complete!)
- The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
- Witchfinder General (1968)

4 films from 1981 (Complete!)
- The Last Shark
- Murder Obsession
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
- Venom

2 films from your birth year (Completed!)
- Evils of the Night (1985)
- Horror House on Highway Five (1985)

2 haunted house films (Complete!)
- And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
- 13 Ghosts (1960)

The worst Part 2 that you haven't seen and can access. (I realize that this will take a little work) (Completed!)
- BloodRayne 2: Deliverance (2007)

1 film set in the woods (Completed!)
- The RItual (2017)

1 Kaiju or Kong film (not the new K v. G) (Completed!)
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

2 Hammer films (Complete!)
- The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
- The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

3 films with a person of color as director or lead (excluding Asian) (Complete!)
- Sugar Hill (1974)
- Atlantics (2019)
- Sweetheart (2019)

3 Asian horror films (Complete!)
- The Quiet Family (1998)
- One Missed Call (2003)
- The Wailing (2016)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Films (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) (Completed!)
-I'm sadly running out of Tobe films I haven't seen, but there are still a few, so I'll go with The Damned Thing (2006)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH JD'd Revenge, The Skull and The Scooby Doo Project (Complete!)
-Sounds like fun

-review them all (eek)