I'm so excited I noticed the official Hooptober rules were published right in time for when I started to get the itch to dive into horror again.

This is my first time participating and I'm feeling ambitious so all of my choices are first watches and I'm aiming to complete the extra credit films.

Progress: 0/34

The Rules and My Choices:
There Must be 31 Films

6 Countries:
Eyes Without a Face - France
Under the Shadow - Jordan
Audition - Japan
A Bay of Blood - Italy
The Wailing - South Korea
The Wolf House - Chile

8 Decades:
The Bride of Frankenstein - 1930s
Cat People - 1940s
Dracula - 1950s
Eyes Without a Face - 1960s
The Devil's Rain - 1970s
The Lair of the White Worm - 1980s
Funny Games - 1990s
Paranormal Activity - 2000s

2 Post-Apocalyptic or Natural Disaster-Related Films:
The Night Eats the World - Post-Apocalyptic
The Bay - Natural Disaster-Related

1 Film with Robert Englund:
Hatchet

1 Something is Underground Film:
C.H.U.D.

3 Satan/Devil Centered Films:
The Devil's Rain
The Wailing
The Pope's Exorcist

1 Amicus Film:
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

The Worst Dracula Film (by Letterboxd rating) That You Haven't Seen and Can Access:
Dracula 3000

1 LGBTQ+ Connected Film:
The Bride of Frankenstein

5 Films From De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson:
The Lair of the White Worm - Ken Russell
Something in the Dirt - Moorehead & Benson
Phantom of the Paradise - De Palma
The Hills Have Eyes - Wes Craven
Frenzy - Hitchcock

2 Peter Cushing Films:
Dracula
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1 Film Based on a Work of or Invoking the Name Bram Stoker:
The Last Voyage of the Demeter

1 Film Based on a Clive Barker Story:
Nightbreed

1 Film That Was Released the Year That You Turned 10:
Audition

1 Mario Bava Film:
A Bay of Blood

1 Film With an 'X' in the Title:
X

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film):
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Extra Credit:
The Zodiac Killer
10 Rillington Place
Shaky Shivers