We are, indeed, so back.

I am so enthralled to take part in this landmark year for the HoopTober challenge. This annual ritual has been instrumental in keeping me connected with this wonderful community and film as a medium, and like clockwork, I'm here to feast upon sinister cinema.

As always, I will be making every attempt to include only films which have not appeared within any of my prior years' lists, and to thread a delicate balance between classic and modern film.

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There must be 31 films
6 countries
Jigoku (Japan)
Satan's Slaves (Indonesia)
Antibodies (Germany)
Night of the Demon (United Kingdom)
Titane (Belgium)
A Bay of Blood (Italy)

8 decades
Strangers on a Train (1950s)
The Gorgon (1960s)
Asylum (1970s)
Dead & Bured (1980s)
The Relic (1990s)
Antibodies (2000s)
Satan's Slaves (2010s)
Titane (2020s)

2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
Jigoku (1960)
On the Beach (1959)

1 film with Robert Englund
Dead & Buried (1981)

1 something is underground film
The Relic (1997)

3 Satan/Devil centered films
Satan's Slaves (2017)
Night of the Demon (1957)
The Devil's Advocate (1997)

1 Amicus film.
Asylum (1972)

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

1 LGBTQ+ connected film
Titane (2021)

5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Sisters (1973)
Gothic (1986)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Synchronic (2019)

2 Peter Cushing films
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Gorgon (1964)

1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
The Awakening (1980)

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

1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
Antibodies (2005)

1 Mario Bava film
A Bay of Blood (1971)

1 film with an 'x' in the title
XX (2017)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Spontaneous Combustion (1990)

1+2=3 Bonus Films
The Zodiac Killer (1971)
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Shaky Shivers (2023)

Forever indebted to our murderous marshal Cinemonster, check out their list!