To Hooptober, or not to Hooptober? Oh, who am I kidding, of course I'm going to Hoop this Tober! 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, except for the required Wizard of Oz and rewatching 28 Days Later before watching the rest of the series):

There must be 31 horror films
✅6 countries (other than Italy or US): 28 Days Later (UK), The Blackcoat's Daughter (Canada), Game Over (India), The Phantom Carriage (Sweden), Vampyr (Germany), Viy (Russia), What We Do in the Shadows (New Zealand)
✅9 decades: The Phantom Carriage (1920s), The Wizard of Oz (1930s), Cat People (1940s), Viy (1960s), The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1970s), Re-Animator (1980s), Phantoms (1990s), 28 Days Later (2000s), What We Do in the Shadows (2010s), Death of a Unicorn (2020s)
✅5 Zombie Films: 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Years Later, The Dead Don't Die, Re-Animator
✅3 cult or conspiracy horror films: The Endless, Hereditary, The Invitation
✅1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: The Blackening
✅1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Mimic
✅1 Canadian film: The Blackcoat's Daughter
✅1 Russian or former Russian state film: Viy
✅The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access: Cat People
✅2 Post Apocalyptic horror films: 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Years Later
✅1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: Repulsion
✅1 The animals are pissed at us film: Death of a Unicorn
✅1 Silent film: The Phantom Carriage
✅4 based on Novels: Fear Street: Prom Queen, Phantoms, The Witches of Eastwick, The Wizard of Oz
✅Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen: Cat People
✅1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
✅1 film from 1932: Vampyr
✅WIZARD of OZ ('39)
✅And 1 Tobe Hooper Film: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
✅Additional films to make 31: Heretic, I Saw the TV Glow, Pearl, MaXXXine, X