my first hooptober to hop on!
- FINISHED -
also ranked from fav to least fav
thanks everyone and happy halloween 2025!

criterias:
• 31 horror films
• 6 countries other than Italy or US (USSR — Russia, Japan, UK, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, France)
• 9 decades (1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
• 5 zombie films (The Living Dead Girl, Messiah of Evil, 28 days later, Braindead, Resident Evil)
• 3 cult-themed/conspiracy films (Lifeforce, Phantasm, Deadzone, Videodrome, Nope)
• 1 black director + black lead film (Nope)
• 1 Mexican/Central American director's film (Alucarda)
• 1 Canadian film (Videodrome)
• 1 former Soviet state film (Vij)
• 1 popular 1940s horror (Cat People)
• 2 post apocalyptic films (28 days later, Annihilation)
• 1 dream-themed film (Phantasm, House, Vij, The Keep, Annihilation, Messiah of Evil)
• 1 animal attack horror (The Birds)
• 1 silent film (A Page of Madness)
• 4 films based on novels (Dead Zone, The Stepford Wives, The Keep, Hellraiser, The Birds, Vij)
• 1 film from Cinemonster's favorite horrors list (Brain Damage, Braindead, Cat People, Hellraiser, Island of Lost Souls, Lifeforce, A Page of Madness, Phantasm, Resident Evil, Videodrome)
• 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film (All the Colors of the Dark)
• 1 1932 film (Island of Lost Souls)
• The Wizard of Oz 1939
• Tobe Hooper film (Lifeforce)