Once more unto the Hooptober, dear friends! Courtesy of Cinemonster, here are this year's criteria and the films I'm planning to watch to fulfill them (all will be first time watches):

There must be 31 films
✅6 countries: Ginger Snaps (Canada), Encounter of the Spooky Kind (Hong Kong), Black Sunday (Italy), Braindead (New Zealand), I Saw The Devil (South Korea), Death Machine (UK)
✅8 decades: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1920s), The Lady Vanishes (1930s), Foreign Correspondent (1940s), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1950s), Black Sunday (1960s), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1970s), Night of the Comet (1980s), Death Machine (1990s), The Midnight Meat Train (2000s), The Bad Batch (2010s), Vampires vs. The Bronx (2020s)
✅2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films: Night of the Comet, Threads
✅1 film with Robert Englund: The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
✅1 something is underground film: The Midnight Meat Train
✅3 Satan/Devil centered films: Black Sunday, The Day of the Beast, The House of the Devil
✅1 Amicus film: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
✅The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access: Dracula 3000
✅1 LGBTQ+ connected film: Nightbreed
✅5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorhead & Benson: The Devils, Foreign Correspondent, The Lady Vanishes, The Lair of the White Worm, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
✅2 Peter Cushing films: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Tales from the Crypt
✅1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker: Dracula: Dead and Loving It
✅1 film based on a Clive Barker story: Nightbreed
✅1 film that was released the year that you turned 10: Braindead
✅1 Mario Bava film: Black Sunday
✅1 film with an 'x' in the title: Bird Box
✅1 Tobe Hooper Film: Salem's Lot
✅Other Movies to Fill Out 31: Freaked, Ghosts of Mars, Meg 2: The Trench, The Neon Demon, Oculus