ultimately the purpose of horror is comfort movies for freaks — Sydney

...somewhere along the way it must've felt irresponsible for horror to exist as a genre of heightened emotion. the culture's reactionary tendencies started to kick in. horror had to be liked and appreciated and we needed a reason for the wrongness. fear and desire needed to be analyzed, made coherent as repeatable commodities. we lost a taste for the inexplicable, unless this inexplicable quality was knowingly employed, a gesture toward lovecraft or lynch or anyone else u can point to in order to be as superficially legible to others as possible. — audrey

This is my eleventh time around! (earlier lists here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). Last year it took me over four months.

Original list: boxd.it/EsPD6

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 horror films
6 countries: Japan (Hausu, Tag), Spain (Pieces, Everyone Will Burn), France (Kandisha, MadS), South Korea (Guard Post, Sleep), Guatemala (La Llorona), Germany (Pelican Blood)
9 decades: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
5 zombie films: White Zombie, Mortuary, Doomsday, The Guard Post, Amityville Dollhouse
3 cult or conspiracy: Body Snatchers, The Ninth Gate, Satranic Panic
Black Director & Lead: The First Purge
Mexican director: Mary, Mary Bloody Mary
Canadian Film: Silent Retreat
Russian or Former Soviet State Film: Viy
1940s Pick: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Post-Apocalyptic Horror: Doomsday, The Long Walk, The First Purge
Dreams in the Plot: Haunts
“Animals are Pissed at Us” Film: The Shallows, Godzilla vs Biollante
Silent Film: The Last Warning
Based on Novels: Incredible Shrinking Man, Body Snatchers, Ninth Gate, the Long Walk, Frankenstein
Wildcard: Any film from this list you haven’t seen: House of Wax
Ernesto Gastaldi Script: Crypt of the Vampire
1932 Release: White Zombie
WIZARD of OZ ('39)

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