Completed and very loosely ranked so don’t take the order too seriously! 

Criteria is listed below and in the notes 🎃 

LAST YEAR: Hooptober 9 

PERSONAL RULES:
First time watches only. I tried to reverse engineer some of my HORRORx52: 2023 picks into this but didn’t get a lot. I also have a full 2023 Spooky Season list with rewatches included here.

OFFICIAL RULES:
There must be 31 films

🌎  6 countries:
1. Kill Baby Kill (Italy) 
2. House (Japan) 
3. Hounds of Love (Australia) 
4. Diabolique (France)
5. The Other Lamb (Belgium/Ireland) 
6. History of the Occult (Argentina) 

⏳ 8 decades:
1. Haxan (1920s) 
2. Diabolique (1950s)
3. Exorcist II: The Heretic (1970s) 
4. The Hunger (1980s) 
5. Wishmaster (1990s)
6. The Others (2000s) 
7. As Above, So Below (2010s) 
8. Possessor (2020s) 

🌪️ 2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films:
1. Crawl 
2. Train to Busan

🧟‍♂️ 1 film with Robert Englund:
Wishmaster

⚰️ 1 something is underground film:
As Above, So Below

🐐 3 Satan/Devil centered films:
1. To the Devil a Daughter
2. The Omen (1976) 
3. The Omen (2006) 

🎞️ 1 Amicus film:
Asylum (ft. Peter Cushing)

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

🏳️‍🌈 1 LGBTQ+ connected film:
The Hunger

🎥 5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Morehead & Benson:
1. The Endless (Morehead & Benson)
2. Synchronic (Morehead & Benson) 
3. Resolution (Morehead & Benson) 
4. Sisters (De Palma) 
5. Cursed (Wes Craven) 

🎭 2 Peter Cushing films:
1. Asylum
2. Twins of Evil 

🩸 1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker:
Dracula 3D

🍬 1 film based on a Clive Barker story:
Candyman (2021)

🎂 1 film released the year you turned 10:
Malevolence

👻 1 Mario Bava film:
Blood and Black Lace

❌ 1 film with the letter 'X' in the title:
Saw X

🎬 And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film):
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Extras:
The Zodiac Killer 
10 Rillington Place
Shaky Shivers 

Original list here