Happy Hooptober!

Update: I finished Hooptober this year! Woo!
Films watched (and reviewed) for this challenge: 31
Films watched Important Cinema Club Scary Challenge 2023: 15
Films watched during the 24-Hour Important Cinema Club Spooky Mind Melter 2023 stream: 12
Total films absorbed for challenges this spooky season: 58

This is Hooptober X - the 10th annual horror movie challenge put forth every year by user CineMonster, named in honour of horror director Tobe Hooper. Nerds who accept the challenge construct a list of 31 movies that must meet the rules for this year, then try to watch them all and write a review by the end of October. Officially the challenge starts Sept 15, but I'm gonna start as soon as this list is live because I never manage to get it done.

Find this year's original rules posting here!

This will be my 3rd time participating, and I always look forward to it. Here are this year's rules, followed by my list, ordered by release date.

If you have thoughts about my list, the movies in it, Hooptober, or anything else, I'd love to read them!

edit: I edited the rules list to include my selection breakdown

-- The Rules --

6 Countries (trying use just the primary country)
France: Knife + Heart (2018), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)
Germany: Vampyr (1932), Nosferatu (1922)
Italy: Dracula 3D (2012), The Other Hell (1981), City of the Living Dead (1980), Black Sunday
Japan: Gozu (2003), Ugetsu (1953)
Mexico: Alucarda (1977), The Mansion of Madness (1973)
Spain: Satan's Blood (1976)
UK: Dog Soldiers (2002), Rawhead Rex (1986), From Beyond the Grave (1974), Asylum (1972)
USA: Spring (2014), The Prophecy (1995), Necronomicon (1993), The Terror Within (1989), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), Galaxy of Terror (1981), Altered States (1980), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Ganja & Hess (1973), The Last Man on Earth (1964), Psycho (1960), The Wolf Man (1941), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

8 Decades
1920s: Nosferatu (1922)
1930s: Vampyr (1932)
1940s: The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
1950s: Ugestu (1953)
1960s: Psycho (1960), The Last Man on Earth (1964)
1970s: The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), Asylum (1972), The Mansion of Madness (1973), Ganja & Hess (1973), From Beyond the Grave (1974), Phandom of the Paradise (1974), Satan's Blood (1976), Alucarda (1977), The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
1980s: City of the Living Dead (1980), Altered States (1980), The Other Hell (1981), Galaxy of Terror (1981), Rawhead Rex (1986), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), The Terror Within (1989)
1990s: Necronomicon (1993), The Prophecy (1995)
2000s: Dog Soldiers (2002), Gozu (2003)
2010s: Dracula 3D (2012), Spring (2014), Knife + Heart (2018)

2 Post Apocalyptic or Natural Disaster Related Films
The Terror Within (1989)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)

1 Film with Robert Englund
Galaxy of Terror (1981)

1 Something is Underground Film
Rawhead Rex (1986)

3 Satan/Devil Centered Films
Satan's Blood (1976)
Alucarda (1977)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

1 Amicus Film
Asylum (1972)
From Beyond the Grave (1974)

The Worst Dracula Film (by Letterboxd rating, that you haven't seen, and can access)
Dracula 3D (2012)

1 LGBTQ+ Connected Film
Knife + Heart (2018)

5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Morehead & Benson
De Palma: Phandom of the Paradise (1974)
Wes Craven: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Ken Russel: Altered States (1980)
Hitchcock: Psycho (1960)
Morehead & Benson: Spring (2014)

2 Peter Cushing Films
Asylum (1972)
From Beyond the Grave (1974)

1 Film Based on a Work of or Invoking the Name Bram Stoker
Nosferatu (1922)
Dracula 3D (2012)

1 Film Based on a Clive Barker Story
Rawhead Rex (1986)

1 Film that was Released the Year that You Turned 10
Necronomicon (1993)

1 Mario Bava Film
Black Sunday (1960)

1 Film with an 'X' in the Title
Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Rawhead Rex (1986)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)