Will be updating these based on what I actually use to fulfill these categories. Last year I watched ~50 movies in October so I'm not worried about hitting the 31 films, more about what I'll assign where!

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Hooptober Neun!

✅6 countries
-- USA (I Spit on Your Grave, etc.)
-- Ukraine (Dark Waters)
-- Korea (Seoul Station)
-- UK (City of the Dead, etc.)
-- Saloum (Senegal)
-- Viy (USSR)
✅8 decades
-- 1950s (Dracula)
-- 1960s (City of the Dead)
-- 1970s (The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, etc.)
-- 1980s (Firestarter, etc.)
-- 1990s (Dark Waters)
-- 2000s (Mimic 2, etc.)
-- 2010s (Hellraiser: Hellworld, Orphan, etc.)
-- 2020s (Barbarian, Smile, etc.)
✅ 2 insect centered films
-- The Fly II
-- Mimic 2
1 horror film set in space or the future
✅ 2 animated films
-- Seoul Station
-- Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
✅ 1 bloodthirsty old person/people film
-- The Visit
✅ 2 1970s regional US films
-- I Spit On Your Grave
-- Ganja and Hess
✅The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access
-- Bride of Chucky
1 German Silent
✅5 Films from: Bill Rebane, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.
-- David Cronenberg (Scanners; The Brood)
-- Charles B. Pierce (Legend of Boggy Creek)
-- Ti West (Cabin Fever 2)
-- Bill Rebane (Blood Harvest; Giant Spider Invasion)
✅2 Christopher Lee films
-- Dracula
-- City of the Dead
✅1 film with a musician or band in it
-- The Hunger (David Bowie)
✅1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around
-- Carrie (2013)
1 Lon Chaney film
✅ 1 Tobe Hooper Film
-- Salem's Lot