Started: 9/15/25
Finished: 10/18/25
Hooptober 12 is upon us and this is my third year participating. As with the past couple of years, I'm self-imposing two rules:
1. All movies must come out of my physical media collection
2. All must be new watches
Quick note in reference to the second, self-imposed rule: The Wizard of Oz I've already watched and the horror film from 1932 I've seen as well, Karl Freund's The Mummy. The good news is I have them both on 4K and haven't got around to watching them yet, so there's a silver lining.
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US) -- Hong Kong, Canada, Latvia, Mexico, UK,…
Started: 9/15/25
Finished: 10/18/25
Hooptober 12 is upon us and this is my third year participating. As with the past couple of years, I'm self-imposing two rules:
1. All movies must come out of my physical media collection
2. All must be new watches
Quick note in reference to the second, self-imposed rule: The Wizard of Oz I've already watched and the horror film from 1932 I've seen as well, Karl Freund's The Mummy. The good news is I have them both on 4K and haven't got around to watching them yet, so there's a silver lining.
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US) -- Hong Kong, Canada, Latvia, Mexico, UK, Spain, Japan, Russia
9 decades - I've got a spread over 10 decades: the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
5 Zombie Films -- Bio Zombie; Burial Ground; Cannibal Apocalypse; Vengeance of the Zombies; One Cut of the Dead
3 cult or conspiracy horror films -- Dark Water; The Seventh Victim; Robin Redbreast
1 film from a Black director with a Black lead -- Ganja & Hess
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director -- Santanico Pandemonium
1 Canadian film -- Blackcoat's Daughter
1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) -- Spider
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access -- I Walked with a Zombie
2 Post Apocalyptic horror films -- The Void; The Last Man on Earth
1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot -- The Night House
1 The animals are pissed at us film -- Cujo
1 Silent film -- The Unknown
4 based on Novels -- Ghost Story; Rampo Noir; Perdita Durango; The Haunting
Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen -- All the Colors of the Dark
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film -- The Horrible Doctor Hitchcock
1 film from 1932 -- The Mummy
I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39) -- Wizard of Oz
1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) -- Toolbox Murders
