It's that time again friends! After completing the challenge for several years in a row, I wasn't able to even come close last year. Let's see how things shape up this time. This is my tenth time joining everyone on this adventure...always an amazing time with my friends who participate. Shout out to Kyle, Chad, Emily, Grace, Nick, Al, and Javi, my constant companions in our annual Hooptober celebrations.

QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 horror films
6 countries (other than Italy or US): Phantom Carriage (Sweden), Bad Taste (NZ), Dead Men’s Letters (USSR), Dangerous Animals (Australia), Onibaba (Japan), Blood Quantum (Canadian)

9 decades: Toolbox Murders (2000s), Phantom Carriage (1920s), Wizard of Oz (1930s), Bad Taste (1980s), Your Vice is a Locked Door (1970s), I Walked with a Zombie (1940s), Him (2020s), The Ritual (2010s), Onibaba (1960s)

5 Zombie Films: I Walked with a Zombie, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Versus, Diary of the Dead, Blood Quantum

3 cult or conspiracy horror films: Messiah of Evil, Apostle, The Ritual

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: His House

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

1 Canadian film: Blood Quantum

1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan): Dead Men’s Letters

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: Dead Men’s Letters, Diary of the Dead

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: Twixt

1 The animals are pissed at us film: The Grey 

1 Silent film: The Phantom Carriage

4 based on Novels: The Long Walk, The Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein, The Ritual

Any film from Cinemonster’s favorite horror list that you haven't seen: Bad Taste

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film: Your Vice is a Locked Door and Only I have the Key

1 film from 1932: Freaks

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): Toolbox Murders

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

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