it's the best time of the year! happy HOOPTOBER! thanks to cinemonster, and to dorsey, with whom i'll be watching at least a couple of these.

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this year's criteria:

31 films

6+ countries
germany, japan, italy, south korea, france, india, chile

8+ decades
1920s thru 2020s

2 insect centered films
phase iv, phenomena

1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released)
alien 3

2 animated films
perfect blue, the wolf house

1 bloodthirsty old person/people film
x

2 1970s regional US films
deathdream, let's scare jessica to death

the worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access
candyman 3

1 German silent
the cabinet of dr caligari

5 films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.
x, pearl (west), eXistenZ, scanners (cronenberg), the town that dreaded sundown (pierce)

2 Christopher Lee films
taste of fear, the whip and the body

1 film with a musician or band in it
the hunger

1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around
pet sematary

1 Lon Chaney film
the unknown

and 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
the funhouse