Woo horror! This will be my third Hooptober and obviously the best. As much as I'd love to watch a horror movie per day through October, I'll be participating Sept 15 - Oct 31 like Cinemonster as well. His original 2023 list here.

Educate yo'self on Hooptober
merrygoroundmagazine.com/interview-cinemonster/
news.letterboxd.com/post/630824373374369792/how-i-letterboxd-cinemonster

Basic rules:
- 31 films
- at least 6 countries
- at least 8 decades
- leave a review for all
- tag reviews with 'HoopToberX'
** one film can satisfy multiple criteria

This year's criteria:
2x post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films (Zombie Flesh Eaters, Warm Bodies)
1x 'something is underground' film (Alligator)
3x Satan/Devil centered films (Blood on Satan's Claw, Idle Hands, Satanic Panic)
1x film with Robert Englund (Urban Legend)
1x Amicus film (Tales From the Crypt)
1x shitty Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access (Blade Trinity)
1x LGBTQ+ connected film (Psycho Beach Party)
5x films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorhead & Benson (Sisters, The Lair of the White Worm, The Serpent & the Rainbow, Cursed, Synchronic)
2x Peter Cushing films (Horror Express, Asylum)
1x film based on or invoking the name Bram Stoker (Dracula 1931)
1x film based on a Clive Barker story (Nightbreed)
1x film that was released the year that you turned 10 (Bordello of Blood)
1x Mario Bava film (Bay of Blood)
1x film with an 'X' in the title (Saw X)
1x Tobe Hooper film — There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film (Lifeforce)

Germany (Possession*)
Italy (Bay of Blood*)
Japan (Dark Water)
Korea (Haunted Asylum)
Mexico (Santa Sangre)
Taiwan (The Sadness)

30s (Dracula*)
40s (Cat People)
60s (Peeping Tom)
70s (Tales From the Crypt*)
80s (The Serpent & the Rainbow*)
90s (Urban Legend*)
00s (Blade II)
10s (Warm Bodies*)

Extra Credit:
1 - The Zodiac Killer
2 - 10 Rillington Place
3 - Shaky Shivers.

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Stay spooky.