Hello boils and ghouls!

Welcome to the 10th edition of HoopTober and again a big thanks to our head honcho Cinemonster for setting this up every year, and let us not forget Slappy McGee for being a very supportive co-moderator and an overall cool dude.

So if you'd like to join us, create your list according to the rules, and share the link to YOUR list in the comments of Cinemonster's Masterlist "Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over".

THE RULES:

- Watch and review 31 horror films, starting at 12:01 a.m. CST on Sept 15th until Oct. 31st.

- Use the TAG HoopToberX so we can read each others stuff.

YOUR FILM SELECTION MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
(listing my selections underneath each):

✅ 6 countries (to add some difficulty, for this, I only count foreign language countries that I require subtitles for):

- Japan (THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS & THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY)
- Czechoslovakia (THE CREMATOR)
- Hong Kong (ESPRIT D‘AMOUR)
- South Korea (A TALE OF TWO SISTERS)
- Guatemala (LA LLORONA)
- Norway (THE TRIP)

✅ 8 decades:

- 1930's, 1940’s, 1950’s, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, 2010's & 2020's.

✅ 2 post-apocalyptic or natural disaster-related films:

- BUG
- THE BATTERY

✅ 1 film with Robert Englund:

- NIGHT TERRORS

✅ 1 something is underground film:

- NIGHTBREED

✅ 3 Satan/Devil centered films:

- ALUCARDA
- THE MAN TO KILL
- FEAR NO EVIL

✅ 1 Amicus film:

- SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN

✅ The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access:

- BILLY THE KID VERSUS DRACULA

✅ 1 LGBTQ+ connected film:

- ALUCARDA

✅ 5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Benson & Moorhead:

- SISTERS (Brian De Palma)
- DEADLY BLESSING (Wes Craven)
- CRIMES OF PASSION (Ken Russell)
- LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (Ken Russell)
- SUSPICION (Alfred Hitchcock)

✅ 2 Peter Cushing films:

- SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
- THE MUMMY

✅ 1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker:

- LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM

✅ 1 film based on a Clive Barker story:

- NIGHTBREED 

✅ 1 film that was released the year that you turned 10:

- ARENA

✅ 1 Mario Bava film:

- HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON

✅ 1 film with an 'x' in the title:

- BLACK BOX

 ✅ And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film):

- NIGHT TERRORS

Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria.

✅ FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK:

- THE ZODIAC KILLER
- 10 RILLINGTON PLACE
- SHAKY SHIVERS

I wish everyone an amazingly frightful HoopTober and a happy scary Halloween!!!

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