Original list by cinemonster

When hinges creak in doorless chambers, and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls... Whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still... it's time for Hooptober X!
My seventh Hooptober 🎃👻
All first time watches

6 countries
Raw (2016, France)
Cure (1997, Japan)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, Germany)
Even the Wind is Afraid (1968, Mexico)
Kung Fu Zombie (1981, Hong Kong)
Blood and Black Lace (1964, Italy)

8 decades
House of Frankenstein (1944)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
The Raven (1963)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Basket Case (1982)
Cure (1997)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Haunted Mansion (2023)

2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
Alien³ (1992)
Land of the Dead (2005)

1 film with Robert Englund
The Mangler (1995)

1 something is underground film
C.H.U.D. (1984)

3 Satan/Devil centered films
I Drink Your Blood (1970)
The Omen (1976)
Hack-O-Lantern (1988)

1 Amicus film.
Tales from the Crypt (1972)

The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access.
Dracula 3D (2012)

1 LGBTQ+ connected film
Possessor (2020)

5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Morehead & Benson.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Swamp Thing (1982)
Resolution (2012)
The Endless (2017)

2 Peter Cushing films
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

1 film based on a Clive Barker story
Nightbreed (1990)

1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)

1 Mario Bava film
Blood and Black Lace (1964)

1 film with an 'x' in the title
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
The Mangler (1995)