original list.

a mix of re-watches and first time watches.

progress: 31/31

quick and easy rules:

- there must be 31 horror films

- 6 countries (other than italy or us)

belgium - mandy (2028)
canada - imprint (2006), humanist vampire seeking consenting suicidal person (2023), martyrs (2008), crawl (2019)
france - martyrs (2008)
japan - imprint (2006), audition (1999)
latvia - spider (1992)
mexico - the devil's backbone (2001)
serbia - crawl (2019)
south korea - the wailing (2016), train to busan (2016)
spain - rec (2007), the devil's backbone (2001), all the colors of the dark (1972)
sweden - midsommar (2019)
united kingdom - mandy (2028), 28 years later (2025)

- 9 decades

my list includes films from: 20s, 30s, 40s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s

- 5 zombie films

rec (2007), 28 years later (2025), train to busan (2016), scooby doo on zombie island (1998), paranorman (2012)

- 3 cult or conspiracy horror films

mandy (2028), the wailing (2016), midsommar (2019), all the colors of the dark (1972)

- 1 film from a black director with a black lead

sinners (2025) dir. ryan coogler, horror noire: a history of black horror (2019) dir. xavier burgin, nope (2022) dir. jordan peele

- 1 film from a mexican or central american director

the devil's backbone (2001) dir. guillermo del toro

- 1 canadian film

- 1 former soviet state film (armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, estonia, georgia, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, latvia, lithuania, moldova, russia, tajikistan, turkmenistan, ukraine, and uzbekistan)

- the most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access

the wolf man (1941)

- 2 post apocalyptic horror films

mandy (2028), 28 years later (2025)

- 1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot

the wizard of oz (1939), spider (1992)

- 1 the animals are pissed at us film

jaws (1975) & crawl (2019)

- 1 silent film

the haunted house (1921)

- 4 based on novels

salem's lot (1979), jaws (1975), misery (1990), audition (1999)

- any film from this list that you haven't seen

martyrs (2008), salem's lot (1979), burn witch burn (1962), the devil's backbone (2001), audition (1999)

- 1 ernesto gastaldi written film

torso (1973) & all the colors of the dark (1972)

- 1 film from 1932

the mummy (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)

salem's lot (1979) & the texas chainsaw massacre 2 (1986)

- using the three bonus films to reach 31

burn witch burn (1962), german chainsaw massacre (1990), trick or treat (1986)

-review them all

- one film can satisfy multiple criteria

- viewing and reviewing will begin on sept 15th