My Hooptober list! Excited to participate for the first time. All except 2 are first watch movies for me.

Original list can be found here. The categories for each movie are listed below, and can also be found in the movie notes of the list.

QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films

6 countries (other than Italy or US)
- The Wailing (2016, South Korea)
- When Evil Lurks (2018, Argentina)
- Diabolique (1955, France)
- Audition (1999, Japan)
- Let The Right One In (2008, Sweden)
- Psychomania (1973, UK)

9 decades
- The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
- Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)
- The Cell (2000)
- Event Horizon (1997)
- Tenebre (1982)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Diabolique (1955)
- Vampyr (1932)

5 Zombie Films
- Rabid (1977)
- Day of the Dead (1985)
- Evil Dead II (1987)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Braindead (1992)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films
- The Wicker Man (1973)
- Psychomania (1973)
- Mandy (2018) 

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead
- Nope (2022)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- Cronos (1992, Dir. Guillermo del Toro)

1 Canadian film
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

1 former Soviet state film
- Viy (1967 - Russia)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access
- The Uninvited (1944)

2 Post-apocalyptic horror films
- Day of the Dead (1985)
- Night of the Comet (1984)

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- The Cell (2000)

1 The animals are pissed at us film
- Infested (2003)

1 Silent film
- A Page of Madness (1926)

4 films based on Novels
- The Ritual (2017)
- Audition (1999)
- Let The Right One In (2008)
- The Wicker Man (1973)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.
- Trick r Treat (2007)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- All The Colors of the Dark (1972)

1 film from 1932
- Vampyr (1932)

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but:
- WIZARD OF OZ (1939)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
- The Funhouse (1981)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK, WATCH:
- Burn Witch Burn,
- German Chainsaw Massacre
- Trick or Treat (1986).

One film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01am cst on Sept 15th.