This will be my third attempt at Hooptober - let's see if I finally prevail! As always, big thanks to Cinemonster for putting this together every year.

Previous attempts:
letterboxd.com/nerdgirl84/list/these-go-to-11-hooptober-11/

letterboxd.com/nerdgirl84/list/x-gon-give-it-to-ya-aka-hooptober-x/

2025 Rules from the man, the myth, the Cinemonster:

[✅️] 31 horror films

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
[✅️] Japan (Kwaidan, Cure)
[✅️] Canada (Videodrome, The Conspiracy, The Shrouds)
[✅️] Germany (The Golem: How He Came Into the World, Vampyr)
[✅️] France (The Shrouds)
[✅️] South Korea (#Alive, Penninsula)
[✅️] Kazakhstan (Sweetie, You Won't Believe It)
[✅️] Australia (Rogue)

[✅️] 9 decades - 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s

5 Zombie Films
[✅️] Peninsula (2020) - 9/24/25
[✅️] #Alive (2020) - 10/18/15
[✅️] The Night Eats the World (2018) - 10/12/25
[✅️] White Zombie (1932) - 9/21/25
[✅️] Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) - 10/5/25
[✅️] Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) - 10/7/25

3 cult or conspiracy horror film
[✅️] Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992) - 9/26/25
[✅️] Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001) - 9/27/25
[✅️] The Conspiracy (2012) - 9/21/25
[✅️] They're Watching (2016) - 9/25/25

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
[✅️] The Blackening (2022) - 9/16/25

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
[✅️] La Llorona (2019) - 10/18/25

1 Canadian film
[ ] Videodrome (1983) or
[✅️] The Shrouds (2025) - 10/4/25

1 former Soviet state film
[✅️] Sweetie, You Won't Believe It (2020) - Kazakhstan - 10/2/25

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..
[✅️] Cat People (1942) - 9/23/25 or
[✅️] Dead of Night (1945) - 10/22/25

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films
[✅️] Bird Box (2018) - 9/28/25
[✅️] Virus (1980) - 10/22/25
[✅️] #Alive (2020) - 10/18/25

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
[✅️] Kwaidan (1964) - 10/18/25
[✅️] Dead of Night (1945)
[✅️] Frankenstein (2025) - 10/23/25

1 The animals are pissed at us film
[✅️] Rogue (2007) - 9/18/25

1 Silent film
[✅️] The Phantom Carriage (1921) - 9/29/25

4 based on Novels
[✅️] Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - 10/3/25
[✅️] Gerald's Game (2017) - 10/3/25
[✅️] The Woman in Black (2012) - 9/25/25
[✅️] John Dies at the End (2012) - 9/21/25
[✅️] Frankenstein (2025) - 10/23/25

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen
[✅️] The Beast Must Die! (1974) - 10/15/25
[✅️] Cat People (1942) - 9/23/25
[✅️] Benny Loves You (2019) - 10/29/25

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
[✅️] Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) - 10/13/25

1 film from 1932
[✅️] Vampyr - 10/2/25

1st Time Specification
[✅️] The Wizard of Oz (1939) - 10/18/25

1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
[✅️] Lifeforce (1985) - 10/11/25

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK:
[ ] Burn Witch Burn aka Night of the Eagle (1962)
[ ] The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)
[ ] Trick or Treat (1986)