It's hoopin' time, baby! This is the ninth installment and my seventh time participating. I've got a handful of rewatches this time, stuff I've wanted to get back to to either review for the first time, or to re-review because I don't trust my first pass.

Besides that, it's the usual. Knocking stuff off the watchlist, catching some new releases, seeing a bunch of old shit I wouldn't see otherwise. But this time I'm bending the rules a bit. They're a good suggestion, but sometimes you just gotta break out and do your own thing, dig?

Here's the breakdown:

6 COUNTRIES
Faust (Germany)
Wicked City (Japan)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (France)
The Orphanage (Spain)
Crimes of the Future (Canada)
His House (UK)

8 DECADES
Metropolis (1920s)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1950s)
Taste of Fear (1960s)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1970s)
Gremlins 2 (1990s)
May (2000s)
The Visit (2010s)
Nope (2020s)

2 BUG MOVIES
The Giant Spider Invasion
Slugs

1 FUTURISTIC OR SPACE MOVIE
Wicked City

2 ANIMATED MOVIES
Coraline
Wicked City

1 OLD PERSON MOVIE
The Visit

2 70S REGIONAL HORROR FILMS
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Don't Go in the House

MOST POPULAR 90S HORROR SEQUEL
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1 GERMAN SILENT FILM
Faust

DAVID CRONENBERG, BILL REBANE, CHARLES B. PIERCE, WILLIAM GREFE, JOY N HOUCK JR (sorry Ti)
Crimes of the Future
The Giant Spider Invasion
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Sting of Death
Creature from Black Lake

2 CHRISTOPHER LEE
The Curse of Frankenstein
Taste of Fear

1 ROCK AND ROLL
We Summon the Darkness

1 KING ADAPTATION, BUT NOT THE FIRST ADAPTATION
IT Chapter Two

1 GEORGE BUCK FLOWER
Pumpkinhead

1 HOOPER
Spontaneous Combustion

WILDCARDS
Hellraiser 2022
Triangle
Satan's Little Helper
Blade II
Orphan
The Orphanage
Halloween Ends

EXTRA CREDIT
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Demon House