it is that time of the year again! thank you for hosting this, Cinemonster.

[adding ✅ next to the films watched as i make my way through the list.]

There must be 31 horror films

- 6 countries (other than Italy or US)

India: Maa (2025) ✅
UK: The Wicker Man ✅
Canada: Pontypool ✅
New Zealand: Housebound
Japan: One Cut of the Dead
South Korea: The Call (2020)
(Erstwhile) Soviet Union: Vly

- 9 decades

1920s: Nosferatu
1930s: The Mummy
1940s: The Wolf Man
1960s: The Innocents ✅
1970s: The Wicker Man ✅
1980s: The Night of the Comet
2000s: Valentine ✅
2010s: 10 Cloverfield Lane
2020s: Dangerous Animals

- 5 zombie films

Cooties ✅
Warm Bodies ✅
Pontypool ✅
One Cut of the Dead
Night of the Comet

- 3 cult or conspiracy horror films

The Wicker Man ✅
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
The Empty Man

- 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead: Bones
- 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director: Frankenstein (2025)
- 1 Canadian film: Prom Night (1980)
- 1 former Soviet state film: Vly
- the most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access: The Wolf Man (1941)
- 2 post-apocalyptic horror films

It Comes at Night
10 Cloverfield Lane ✅

- 1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- 1 'the animals are pissed at us' film: Dangerous Animals
- 1 silent film: Nosferatu (1922)
- 4 based on novels

Valentine ✅
The Innocents (1961) ✅
Carrie (2013) ✅
The Midnight Meat Train

- any film from THIS list that you haven't seen:

Black Christmas (2006) ✅
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

- 1 film written by Ernesto Gastaldi: Torso
- 1 film from 1932: The Mummy
- Wizard of Oz (1939)
- 1 Tobe Hooper film (there must ALWAYS be a Hooper film): The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

I will get a head start because I will not be able to watch much between September 29 October 5. here's hoping I can get through this list by halloween this year!

happy Hooptober to everyone celebrating! 🎃