Back for a third year! I've failed miserably at all my other movie challenges this year, but I've been unreasonably excited for this installment of Hooptober's criteria to drop, and I've succeeded with the last two years, so we're gonna get it done, no doubt. Full explanation and rules can be found here.

I've bent one of the rules before, I believe, maybe in one of the older ones I did just for fun, but I'm going for a full break this year. I hope Cinemonster and the other participants don't hold it against me. The Wizard of Oz was the first movie I watched this year and I personally can't re-watch anything that soon. I understand the Lynch connection. I've got some demand avoidance issues, though, as well. HOWEVER. In its place, and to still honor Lynch, I will be watching Mulholland Drive for my first time.

Will be doing some of the extra credit this year, too.

Rules and Qualifications. I guess I like to show my work so I've included the movie(s) that corresponds with the requirement.

There must be 31 horror films.

6 countries (other than Italy or US): Pontypool (Canada), Nosferatu (Germany), Black Sheep (New Zealand), Cemetery of Terror (Mexico), Sputnik (Russia), Peninsula (South Korea)

9 decades: Nosferatu (1922), White Zombie (1932), Cat People (1942), Crypt of the Vampire (1964), The Wicker Man (1973), Cemetery of Terror (1985), Pontypool (2008), Doctor Sleep (2019), Peninsula (2020)

5 Zombie Films: White Zombie, Night of the Comet, Black Sheep, Pontypool, Peninsula

3 cult or conspiracy horror films: The Conspiracy, The Wicker Man, The First Purge

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: The First Purge

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Cemetery of Terror

1 Canadian film: Pontypool

1 Russian or former Russian state film: Sputnik

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access: Cat People

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films: Peninsula, It Comes at Night

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: Doctor Sleep

1 The animals are pissed at us film: Crocodile

1 Silent film: Nosferatu

4 based on Novels: Doctor Sleep, The Wicker Man, The Dead Zone, The Long Walk

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen: The Dead Zone

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: Crypt of the Vampire

1 film from 1932: White Zombie

I̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶m̶a̶d̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶ ̶f̶i̶l̶m̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶W̶I̶Z̶A̶R̶D̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶O̶Z̶ ̶(̶'̶3̶9̶)̶ Honoring David Lynch: Mulholland Drive

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

Extra Credit for Ozzy: Trick or Treat

In honor of my third Hooptober, I'll be finishing the list with a handful of third installments in horror franchises. This is the best I've done so far meeting all the criteria with the fewest amount of films, so the 12 movies that will round the list out to 31 are: Bring Her Back, Good Boy, Hell House LLC, Hell Fest, The Conjuring: Last RItes, V/H/S Halloween, Critters 3, Scream 3, Poltergeist III, The Grudge 3, Child's Play 3, Halloween III: Season of the Witch.