COMPLETED!

This is my first "official" Hooptober (I did it once, before I was on Letterboxd, and didn't post or review). They're all movies that I haven't seen yet.

THE RULES:

There must be 31 films

6 countries
🌏 Häxan (1922) - Sweden/Denmark
🌏 Frontier(s) (2007) - France
🌏 The Innocents (2021) - Norway
🌏 Thirst (2009) - South Korea
🌏 The Lure (2015) - Poland
🌏 Baskin (2015) - Turkey

8 decades
📅 Häxan (1922)
📅 Cat People (1942)
📅 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
📅 The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
📅 Bug (1975)
📅 House of the Long Shadows (1983)
📅 Perfect Blue (1997)
📅 Life (2017)

2 insect centered films
🐜 Bug (1975)
🐜 Empire of the Ants (1977)

1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released)
🪐🕔 Life (2017)

2 animated films
🎨 Perfect Blue (1997)
🎨 Mad God (2021)

1 bloodthirsty old person/people film
👵 Gretel & Hansel (2020)

2 1970s regional US films
🏡 Creature From Black Lake (1976)
🏡 The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access
🤮 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)

1 German Silent
🔇 The Golem: How He Came Into The World (1920)

5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.
🎬 Blood Harvest - Rebane (1987)
🎬 Creature From Black Lake - Houck Jr. (1976)
🎬 The Town That Dreaded Sundown - Pierce (1976)
🎬 The Sacrament - West (2013)
🎬 Crimes Of The Future - Cronenberg (2022)

2 Christopher Lee films
👨 The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
👨 House of the Long Shadows (1983)

1 film with a musician or band in it (A real life musician or band)
👨‍🎤 The Hunger - David Bowie (1983)

1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around
👑 Firestarter (2022)

1 Lon Chaney film (NOT JR)
🎭 The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
🪓 The Funhouse (1981)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Last Circus and Silent Madness. Like last year, there is a third film: Pennywise: The Story of It.
➕ The Last Circus (2010)
➕Silent Madness (1984)
➕ Pennywise: The Story of It (2021)

Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.