My list for the twelfth Hooptober!

6 countries (other than Italy or US) (Outside (Phillipines), The Night Eats the World (France), The Empty Man (South Africa), The Silence (Canada), Annihilation (UK), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Russia))

9 decades (Destiny (1920s), Idland of Lost Souls (1930s), She-Wolf of London (1940s), Blacula (1970s), Videodrome (1980s), Audition (1990s), Dawn of the Dead (2000s), I Saw the Devil (2010s), Together (2020s))

5 Zombie Films (The End? (2017) Dawn of the Dead (2004) Outside (2024) The Night Eats the World (2018) The Dead Don’t Die (2019))

3 cult or conspiracy horror films (The Silence (2019) The Endless (2017) The Empty Man (2020))

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead (Blacula (1972))

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director (Cronos (1992))

Canadian film (Videodrome (1983))

1 Russian or former Russian state film (November (2017))

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access.. (She-Wolf of London (1946))

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films (The Crazies (2010) It Comes at Night (2017))

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot (Before I Wake (2016))

The animals are pissed at us film (Cujo (1983))

1 Silent film (Destiny (1921))

4 based on Novels (Maximum Overdrive (1986) {Stephen King} Audition (1999) {Ryu Murakami} The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) {Bram Stoker} Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) {Seth Grahame-Smith})

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. (Let the Right One In (2008))

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

1 film from 1932 (Island of Lost Souls (1932))

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)

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

Bonus (matching no categories) (I Saw the Devil (2010) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Fleet Street (2007) Annihilation (2018) The Boogeyman (2023) Together (2025))

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

-review them all.(eek)

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