🔪 31 days of October, 31 horror movies to watch — taking on Cinemonster’s Hooptober challenge for the seventh time! 

Some fun categories this time around. I had to go with a few rewatches this year, but it’s mostly a bunch of films I’ve had on my watchlist for a while now.

As usual, I like to work through the list in release order — it’s fun to watch the progression of the genre and find some accidental themes and double-features along the way.

6 countries

1. Italy — Blood and Black Lace
2. Ireland — Rawhead Rex
3. Spain — The Skin I Live In
4. Japan — Meatball Machine Kodoku
5. Denmark — Speak No Evil
6. Canada — Slash/Back

8 decades

1. ’50s — The Tell-Tale Heart
2. ’60s — Blood and Black Lace
3. ’70s — Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1972)
4. ’80s — The Thing
5. ’90s — Bram Stoker’s Dracula
6. ’00s — The Host
7. ’10s — Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
8. ’20s — Barbarian

2 post-apocalyptic or natural disaster films

1. In the Mouth of Madness
2. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

1 Robert Englund film

1. Galaxy of Terror

1 “something is underground” film

1. It Chapter Two

3 Satan/Devil centered films

1. Angel Heart
2. The Prophecy
3. Constantine

1 Amicus Productions film

1. Tales from the Crypt

The worst Dracula film that you haven’t seen and can access

1. Dracula 3D

1 LGBTQ-connected film

1. Knock at the Cabin

5 genre legend films
Brian De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Alfred Hitchcock, Moorhead & Benson

1. Hitchcock — Dial M for Murder
2. Russell — The Lair of the White Worm
3. De Palma — Raising Cain
4. Craven — New Nightmare
5. Moorhead & Benson — Spring

2 Peter Cushing films

1. The Satanic Rites of Dracula
2. Tales from the Crypt

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

1. Bram Stoker’s Dracula

1 film based on a Clive Barker story

1. Rawhead Rex

1 film released the year you turned 10

1. The Exorcist III

1 Mario Bava film

1. Blood and Black Lace

1 film with an “X” in the title

1. Oxygen 

1 Tobe Hooper film

1. The Funhouse