Here we go again. This time last year I stated that "I bit off a bit more than I initially bargained for with just over 100 movies in my 2020 list!" 2020 total was 102.
... I then proceeded to be very daft and watched 133 entries on my 2021 list!

So here I am again, saying "I probably won't go as nuts this year", but only time will tell (edit: which it did).

My starting point this year is 36 movies, hitting all the list rules, the bonuses, and then additional movies against some of the same rules that just took my fancy.

At the starting point of 12:01am 15 September, I still hadn't added whatever recs I've not already seen that RedLetterMedia's Jay Bauman makes on his twitter each year...

But... I did balloon my list to 112 movies based on stuff within my unseen collection that took my eye.
As well as stuff piquing my interest, I also started down the path of "Ohhh, I should add some Peter Cushing... and a Vincent Price... add some Lovecraft, which covers some Stuart Gordon... but then I should add a Yuzna flick... and some documentaries... and a gig or two..."
This is why my list always expands to stupid sizes.

I like to think it gives one hell of a varied marathon to go through.

I've also decided to work my way through the 3 short lived animated series 'Little Shop', 'Drak Pack', and 'Skeleton Warriors'.

****EDIT: 2 Oct 2022*****
Welllll shit. I've gone and done it again.
I had slowly added a couple more here and there, and then RedLetterMedia's Jay Bauman released his Oct picks on Twitter, and once I added those it creeped up to 133 - the same as 2021. Now I know that it'll still go over that amount by a couple of films, as there'll no doubt be some new Oct releases that get added in the coming days.

Still though, I'm just past the 1/3 point of the overall watch period, and I'm now at the 52% mark of my watch list (or 106hours in of my total 203hour watch time). So if I keep the same kind of pace, I should be fine getting through all of these.
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All additional films I've added beyond the base 36 are just for the fun of my usual October marathon viewing. Thank funk I organise my watch approach using a nerdy spreadsheet for tracking them.

letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/hooptober-neun-from-outer-space/

THE RULES:
There must be 31 films
6 countries (USA, UK, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Germany, Greece, France, Japan, Italy)
8 decades (1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 2020s)
2 insect centred films (Bugged, Mosquito, The Nest, They Nest)
1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released) (Supernova, Possessor, Crimes of the Future, Dead Space)
2 animated films (Mad God, 9, Coraline, Frankenweenie, Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island, Tales from the Far Side II)
1 bloodthirsty old person/people film (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
2 1970s regional US films (The Last House on the Left, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death)
The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access. (The Birds II: Land’s End, Son of Bambi Meets Godzilla)
1 German Silent (The Golem: How He Came into the World)
5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr. (The Brood, Crimes of the Future, Dead Ringers, The Dead Zone, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever - aka, time to catch up on mostly Cronenberg movies)
2 Christopher Lee films (Taste of Fear, Scars of Dracula, Curse of the Crimson Altar)
1 film with a musician or band in it (A real life musician or band) (Studio 666 - Foo Fighters)
1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around (Salem's Lot)
1 Lon Chaney film. (NOT JR) (London After Midnight)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) (The Nightmare Begins Again)
***Official BONUS FILMS: The Last Circus and Silent Madness. Like last year, there is a third film: Pennywise: The Story of It.

-review them all.(eek)
Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.

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Edit: The last film, the Pennywise documentary, I won't be watching this year, as despite it being on Screambox and them offering a free trial code of Hooptober, it's bloody well region locked to the US. The doc doesn't appear anywhere else accessible to the UK (and probably the rest of the non-US world, so it'll be the first time I'm skipping a film, which is super disappointing. Very silly putting a film on the bonus selection that only people in the US can legally access (and I can't even find it on the high seas!).
Edit: I'm replacing the Pennywise doc with 'This is Gwar' (2022).
Edit 18 October: The high seas came through. Pennywise is back on the list!

Edit 26 October: With 5 days still to go, apart from 3 entries that I'm saving for 31 October, I'm... done.
I didn't think I'd get through as many as last year, never mind exceed it. Well... I've not hammered a full franchise this year, so I guess it's time to add all of the Final Destination movies, of which I've only ever seen the first one once, way back when it originally released.

Edit 29 October: Finished the FD series but I'm still 3 days out. Well, with one series completely finished, and with years focus being primarily on single movies, I guess at this point I'll start throwing in movies that will finish off some franchises that I started long ago and finally get round to watching a lot of missed sequels.