Official challenge.

This will be my fifth(!) year participating; last year I tapped out early, but this year I'm raring to go. Also hoping to complete another 61 Horror Movies in 61 Days from Sept 1-Oct 31st!

Also, somehow I hit all the criteria with a few films to spare, so I added some films from David Cronenberg & Karen Black, because why not add a little chaos?

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 films

6/6 countries: House that Dripped Blood, UK; Beyond the Door, Italy; Knife + Heart, France; The Devil's Backbone, Mexico; The Innocents, Norway; Dead Ringers, Canada

8/8 decades: Son of Dracula, 1943; The Last Man on Earth, 1964; The House that Dripped Blood, 1971; Gothic, 1986; Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, 1992; The Devil's Backbone, 2001; Knife + Heart, 2018; The Innocents, 2021

1/2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films (Melancholia, The Last Man on Earth)

1/1 film with Robert Englund (The Last Showing)

1/1 something is underground film (The Devil's Backbone)

3/3 Satan/Devil centered films (The Prophecy, Beyond the Door, The Witch)

1/1 Amicus film (House that Dripped Blood)

1/1 The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access (Dracula 3D)

1/1 LGBTQ+ connected film (Knife+Heart)

4/5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Morehead & Benson (The Fury, Raising Cain, Deadly Blessing, Gothic, Crimes of Passion)

2/2 Peter Cushing films (House that Dripped Blood, Horror Express)

1/1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker (Son of Dracula)

*1 film based on a Clive Barker story (Candyman)

1/1 film that was released the year that you turned 10 (Video Violence)

1/1 Mario Bava film (Baron Blood)

1/1 film with an 'x' in the title (X)

*And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (Body Bags)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Zodiac Killer and 10 Rillington Place. Like last year, there is a third film: Shaky Shivers.