This was my third time doing Cinemonster's annual Hooptober challenge.

I started a day early because I attended an advance screening of a film that applies, but unfortunately, I didn’t complete the challenge this year.

And check out Cinemonster's ninth annual Hooptober challenge list for more information.

🎃 Here are the rules 🎃
6 countries: Canada (The Retreat), Chile (The Wolf House), Italy (Opera), United Kingdom (Don’t Look Now), United States (Pearl)
8 decades: 1920s (The Phantom of the Opera), 1950s (The Fly), 1960s (The Birds), 1980s (Opera), 1990s (Sleepy Hollow), 2000s (Coraline), 2010s (Don’t Breathe), 2020s (Pearl)
2 insect-centered films: The Fly (1958), Them!
1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released): Crimes of the Future (2022)
2 animated films: Coraline, The Wolf House
1 bloodthirsty old person/people film: X
2 1970s regional U.S. films
The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that I haven't seen and can access
1 German silent
5 films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.: Crimes of the Future (2022), Pearl, X
2 Christopher Lee films: Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Sleepy Hollow
1 film with a musician or band in it: X (Scott Mescudi)
1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around: It (2017)
1 Lon Chaney film: The Phantom of the Opera
1 Tobe Hooper film: The Funhouse
Extra credit