My second year of HoopTober is here. I've got a wildly busy September and October upcoming, so I hope the gods of the game will look the other way if I get a tiny lil’ head start before September 15...

6 Countries (already hit 6 countries outside this category, so here's 2 international titles I've been meaning to watch)

The Beasts' Carnival/Human Beasts (Spain, 1980)
Nothing Underneath (Italy, 1985)

8 decades (getting us to 31 titles with a grab bag of titles from each decade '50s–'20s)

The Creature from the Black Lagoon (USA, 1954)
The Brides of Dracula (UK, 1960)
The Fifth Cord (Italy, 1971)
Nightmare Weekend (USA, 1984)
Alien³ (USA, 1992)
The Others (Spain/USA, 2001)
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (Belgium, 2013)
Hocus Pocus 2 (USA, 2022)

2 insect centered films

Bug (USA, 2006)
Mothra Vs. Godzilla (Japan, 1964)

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

Planet of the Vampires (Italy, 1965)

2 animated films

Midori-Ko (Japan, 2011)
Violence Voyager (Japan, 2018)

1 bloodthirsty old person/people film

Strait-Jacket (USA, 1964)

2 1970s regional US films

The Zodiac Killer (USA, 1971)
Dark August (USA, 1976)

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

Howling VII: New Moon Rising (USA, 1995)

1 German Silent

The Golem: How It Came Into the World (Germany, 1920)

5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.

Pearl (USA, 2022)
The Innkeepers (USA, 2011)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (USA, 1976)
The Legend of Boggy Creek (USA, 1972)
The Dead Zone (USA, 1983)

2 Christopher Lee films

Taste of Fear (UK, 1961)
The Devil Rides Out (UK, 1968)

1 film with a musician or band in it

Bones (USA, 2001)

1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around

Firestarter (USA, 2022)

1 Lon Chaney film

The Unknown (USA, 1927)

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

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (USA, 1974)