This is my first time participating in Hooptober, which is put on every year by Letterboxd user Cinemonster as a marathon for the latter part of September and all of October to enjoy a stream of horror movies. This is a definite change of pace for me, as I don't watch a ton of horror in general. As of the creation of this list, I had 1,542 movies currently in my Watchlist, but only 89 of them had the Horror genre tag attached to them on Letterboxd. Likewise, of the 3,048 feature films I had rated prior to this marathon, Letterboxd only classified 181 of those as Horror.

So even though there are a decent amount of movies I would say I like that are Horror films, they still make up a small percentage of what I tend to flock towards. I guess we'll see if I can make it an entire six weeks watching not much else outside of the genre. Aside from the few that I had to fill in to meet the criteria of the challenge, most of these were in my Watchlist prior to making my list. I'll be ranking them as I go, and reviews can always be found in the Notes section. Feel free to join along if you like, so see below (or the official page linked to above) for the rules for the challenge.

Rules:

6 Countries (X)
8 Decades (X)
2 Folk Horror (X)
4 Films From 1981 (X)
2 Films From Your Birth Year (1985) (X)
2 Haunted House Films (X)
The Worst Unseen Part 2 Available (X)
1 Film Set In The Woods (X)
1 Kaiju or Kong Film (Not The New KvG) (X)
2 Hammer Films (X)
3 Films w/ a POC As Director or Lead (Non-Asian) (X)
3 Asian Horror Films (X)
1 Tobe Hooper Film (X)

Note: These are all first-time watches except for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. Also, I should be able to complete all the criteria with the first twenty-six films (as of the initial list creation time), so I will probably prioritize those first. Everything after that is technically a bonus film, so depending on how much stuff is coming off the Criterion Channel in October I may just extend this challenge as long as I feel like continuing with the theme in order to continue getting rid of some stuff from my Watchlist that I don't generally prioritize. Unwatched films at the end will be deleted.