15 Sept 2025 - 31 Oct 2025

Second year attempting Hooptober! One additional rule I will be following is that films cannot be repeated for the various categories

Original Hooptober 12 list by Cinemonster

Current Progress: 45/45 🎉

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 horror films

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
- Japan: Kwaidan (1964)✅ (18 Oct 25)
- Korea: Bedevilled (2010) ✅ (16 Oct 25)
- Thailand: Dorm (2006) ✅ (16 Sept 25)
- UK: Repulsion (1965) ✅ (29 Sept 25)
- France: Frontier(s) (2007) ✅ (11 Oct 25)
- Italy: The Antichrist (1974) ✅ (25 Sept 25)

9 decades
- 1940s: The Body Snatcher (1945) ✅ (8 Oct 25)
- 1950s: Diabolique (1955) ✅ (21 Sept 25)
- 1960s: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) ✅ (15 Oct 25)
- 1970s: Carrie (1976) ✅ (15 Sept 25)
- 1980s: Possession (1981) ✅ (15 Sept 25)
- 1990s: Candyman (1992) ✅ (23 Sept 25)
- 2000s: Coraline (2009) ✅ (16 Oct 25)
- 2010s: mother! (2017) ✅ (12 Oct 25)
- 2020s: The Substance (2024) ✅ (31 Oct 25)

5 Zombie Films
- White Zombie (1932) ✅ (17 Sept 25)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968) ✅ (23 Sept 25)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978) ✅ (13 Oct 25)
- The Return of the Living Dead (1985) ✅ (29 Sept 25)
- Zombi 2 (1979) ✅ (13 Oct 25)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films
- Santa Sangre (1989) ✅ (25 Sept 25)
- The Invitation (2015) ✅ (13 Oct 25)
- Kill List (2011) ✅ (22 Sept 25)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
- Ganja & Hess (1973) ✅ (10 Oct 25)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- The Devil's Backbone (2001) ✅ (4 Oct 25)

1 Canadian film
- Videodrome (1983) ✅ (20 Sept 25)

1 Russian or former Russian state film
- Sputnik (2020) ✅ (14 Oct 25)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
- Cat People (1942) ✅ (8 Oct 25)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
- Carriers (2009) ✅ (11 Oct 25)
- The Cured (2017) ✅ (15 Oct 25)

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- Before I Wake (2016) ✅ (12 Oct 25)

1 The animals are pissed at us film
- The Birds (1963) ✅ (14 Oct 25)

1 Silent film
- The Unknown (1927) ✅ (18 Sept 25)

4 based on Novels
- Let The Right One (2008) ✅ (27 Sept 25)
- Audition (1999) ✅ (11 Oct 25)
- Watchers (1988) ✅ (22 Sept 25)
- The Keep (1983) ✅ (24 Sept 25)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
- All the Colors of the Dark (1972) ✅ (23 Sept 25)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) ✅ (26 Sept 25)

1 film from 1932
- The Most Dangerous Game (1932) ✅ (16 Sept 25)

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) 🔁✅ (19 Oct 25)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
- Lifeforce (1985) ✅ (24 Sept 25)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat.
- Burn Witch Burn (1962) ✅ (9 Oct 25)
- German Chainsaw Massacre (1990) ✅ (5 Oct 25)
- Trick or Treat (1986) ✅ (9 Oct 25)