Original List
Hooptober 12 starts on September 15th, 2025.
There must be 31 horror films
✅ 9 decades (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2020s)
✅ 1 film from 1932 (The Most Dangerous Game)
- 6 countries, other than Italy or US (Canada, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, UK, Ukraine)
- 5 Zombie Films (Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Years Later)
✅ 3 cult or conspiracy horror films (Rosemary's Baby, Blood Shine, Weapons)
✅ 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead (Nope)
- 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director (Tigers Are Not Afraid)
✅ 1 Canadian film (Ginger Snaps)
- 1…
Original List
Hooptober 12 starts on September 15th, 2025.
There must be 31 horror films
✅ 9 decades (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2020s)
✅ 1 film from 1932 (The Most Dangerous Game)
- 6 countries, other than Italy or US (Canada, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, UK, Ukraine)
- 5 Zombie Films (Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Years Later)
✅ 3 cult or conspiracy horror films (Rosemary's Baby, Blood Shine, Weapons)
✅ 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead (Nope)
- 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director (Tigers Are Not Afraid)
✅ 1 Canadian film (Ginger Snaps)
- 1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) (Viy)
✅ The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access. (The Wolf Man)
- 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films (28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later)
✅ 1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot (Parasomnia)
✅ 1 The animals are pissed at us film (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
- 1 Silent film (The Phantom of the Opera)
✅ 4 based on novels (Rosemary's Baby, Audition, Carrie, The Hound of the Baskervilles)
✅ Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen. (I Spit on Your Grave)
✅ 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film (Torso)
- I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39) (The Wizard Of Oz)
- And 1 Tobe Hooper Film - There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)
