Cinemonster filled me in that the only criteria for viewing is that it ends on the 31 so will probably start watching 1st of October. More in the spirit of things.

To that end, I might refine some of my choices till then. Going to try and substitute some of my preliminary choices for films I haven't seen yet. The more I add to my "watched" list, the more I realize how challenging that will be.

6 countries:
Mahal (india)
Black Sunday (Italy)
Eyes Without a Face (France)
Noroi (Japan)
Rituals (Canada)
Haxan (Denmark)

8 decades:
Dante's Inferno (10s)
Haxan (20s),
Vampyr (30s)
Dead of Night (40s)
Night of the Demon (50s)
Spider Baby (60s)
Valerie and her Week of Wonders (70s)
Nightbreed (90s)

2 folk horror:
The Savage Hunt of King Stakh
Jug Face

4 films from 1981:
The Evil Dead
Possession
The Pit
Dark Night of the Scarecrow

2 films from your birth year:
Horrors of Malformed Men
The Oblong Box

2 haunted house films:
The Legend of Hell House
The Changeling

The worst Part 2 that you haven't seen and can access:
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby

1 film set in the woods:
Rituals

1 Kaiju or Kong film (not the new K v. G):
Daimajin

2 Hammer films:
The Devil Rides Out
Plague of the Zombies

3 films with a person of color as director or lead:
Tales from the Hood
Ganja & Hess
Sugar Hill

3 Asian horror films:
Noroi
Sweet Home,
Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film: Spontaneous Combustion

JD's Revenge, The Skull, and The Scooby Doo Project