Finally getting around to participating in Hooptober. 

Usually around spooky season I’ll commit to watching an horror film daily, so it was a delight curating this list with the rules Cinemonster set up.

The real challenge is going to be reviewing them all, but it’s going to be fun exercise. Besides Wizard of Oz, all of these will be first-time viewings. 

Note: For Twixt I’ll be watching B'Twixt Now and Sunrise: The Authentic Cut

Happy Halloween Eve!

31 Horror Movies ✅

6 Countries asides Italy and U.S.

Orlacs Hände (Austria)
The Devil’s Bath (Austria/Germany)
Backcountry (Canada)
Rabid (Canada)
In My Skin (France)
Maa (India)
Shogun’s Joy of Torture (Japan)
Wolf Zero (Japan)
Alucarda (Mexico)
Mother Joan of the Angels (Poland)
Sennentuntschi (Switzerland)
Burn, Witch, Burn (U.K.)
Voy (USSR)

9 Decades

1920s (Orlacs Hände)

1930s (Bride of Frankenstein, White Zombie, Wizard of Oz)

1940s (Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein)

1950s (Creature from the Black Lagoon)

1960s (Burn Witch Burn, The Last Man on Earth, Mother Joan of the Angels, Shogun’s Joy of Torture, Viy, The Whip and the Body)

1970s (Alucarda, Rabid, The Velvet Vampire, Willard)

1980s (Night of the Comet)

1990s (Body Bags, Cemetery Man, Tales from the Hood, Wild Zero)

2000s (In My Skin)

2010s (Anna and the Apocalypse, Backcountry, Mandy, Sennentuntschi, Starry Eyes, Twixt)

2020s (The Blackening, Candyman, The Devil’s Bath, Maa)

5 Zombie films

Anna and the Apocalypse, Cemetery's Man, Rabid, White Zombie, Wild Zero

3 Cult or Conspiracy Horror films

Mandy, Sennentuntschi, Starry Eyes

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead

The Blackening, Candyman, Tales from the Hood 

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director

Alucarda

1 Canadian film

Backcountry, Rabid

1 former Soviet state film

Viy

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven’t seen and can access 

Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films

The Last Man on Earth, Night of the Comet

1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot

Twixt

1 the animals are pissed at us film

Backcountry, Willard

1 Silent film

Orlacs Hände

4 based on Novels

Cemetery Man, The Last Man on Earth, Orlacs Hände,  White Zombie

Any film from this list that you haven’t seen

The Bride of Frankenstein

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film

The Whip and the Body 

1 film from 1932

White Zombie

Wizard of Oz ‘39

1 Tobe Hooper film 

Body Bags

Extra Work

Burn Witch Burn