Fifth time participating.

Official rules:
letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-ocho-the-only-way-to-stop-a-bad/

6 countries – France (All the Gods in the Sky), Hong Kong (The Untold Story), Italy (Monster Hunter aka Absurd), Japan (Godzilla, Mothra and King Gidorah), UK (Inseminoid), USA (Seance)

8 decades – 1950s (The Thing from Another World), 1960s (Black Sunday), 1970s (The Black Belly of the Tarantula), 1980s (Cat People), 1990s (Repossessed), 2000s (Pathology), 2010s (All the Gods in the Sky), 2020s (Halloween Kills)

2 folk horror – In the Earth, Pumpkinhead

4 films from 1981 – Dead & Buried, Hospital Massacre, Inseminoid, Monster Hunter (aka Absurd)

2 films from your birth year – Alien 2: On Earth, Fade to Black

2 haunted house films – House, House II: The Second Story

The worst Part 2 that you haven't seen and can access. – Leprechaun 2

1 film set in the woods – Hunter Hunter

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

2 Hammer films – The Vampire Lovers, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

3 films with a person of color as director or lead. (excluding Asian) – Bad Hair, The People Under the Stairs, Spiral: From the Book of Saw

3 Asian horror films – Ebola Syndrome, The Butterfly Murders, The Untold Story

And 1 Tobe Hooper film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) – Toolbox Murders