🎉DONE🎉

Total: 31/31

Final recap:
After so many years (of admittedly very sporadic attempts), I finally finished Hooptober! Granted, I counted three shorts and didn't make it to the extra films, but I'm overall very happy. Last film logged right at 23:59 my time.

Favourite finds: Skinamarink, The Hunger, Body Bags
Longest on my watchlist: Ju-on: The Grudge, Jaws
Most films watched in a 60h period: 15

Before Hoop-Tober:
I'm back again with boundless optimism re: how far into this list I'm going to make it. As always I love that Hooptober is a yearly part of spooky season and it's always fun to take part, even if I don't get too close to the finish line.

Cinemonster's list

The rules:

6 countries
✓ The Last Wave (Australia)
✓ Blood and Black Lace (Italy)
✓ Ju-on: The Grudge (Japan)
✓ Sauna (Finland)
✓ Black Sheep (New Zealand)
✓ Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (South Korea)

8 decades
✓ Rope (1948)
✓ Dracula (1958)
✓ Blood and Black Lace (1964)
✓ The Last Wave (1977)
✓ A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
✓ 28 Days Later (2002)
✓ Dracula 3D (2012)
✓ Skinamarink (2022)

2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
✓ The Last Wave
✓ 28 Days Later

1 film with Robert Englund
✓ A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

1 something is underground film
✓ The Devil's Pass

3 Satan/Devil centered films
✓ The Omen (1976)
✓ Devil
✓ The House of the Devil

1 Amicus film
✓ Tales from the Crypt

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 Moorehead & Benson
✓ Carrie (De Palma)
✓ Scream 3 (Wes Craven)
✓ Altered States (Ken Russell)
✓ Rope (Hitchcock)
✓ Resolution (Moorehead & Benson)

2 Peter Cushing films
✓ Tales from the Crypt
✓ Dracula (1958)

1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
✓ Dracula (1958)

1 film based on a Clive Barker story
✓ Hellraiser

1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
✓ The Omen (2006)

1 Mario Bava film
✓ Blood and Black Lace

1 film with an 'x' in the title
✓ The Belko Experiment

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
✓ Body Bags

There must be 31 films
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Zodiac Killer and 10 Rillington Place. Like last year, there is a third film: Shaky Shivers.

-review them all.(eek)

Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.