After skipping the last two years, I am finally able to participate in Hooptober again. I really missed the chance to force myself to watch and review a bunch of horror movies that I otherwise likely wouldn’t ever get the chance to. Here’s what we’ve got.

QUICK EASY RULES:

6 countries
• Black Sunday (Italy)
• Tales from the Crypt (UK)
• Kwaidan (Japan)
• Skinamarink (Canada)
• Brain Dead (New Zealand)
• Talk to Me (Australia)

8 decades
• Vertigo (1950s)
• Black Sunday (1960s)
• Tales from the Crypt (1970s)
• Dressed to Kill (1980s)
• Deep Rising (1990s)
• Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2000s)
• The Void (2010s)
• X (2020s)

2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
• Day of the Dead (1985)
• A Quiet Place (2018)

1 film with Robert Englund
• Fear Clinic (2014)

1 something is underground film
The Descent (2005)

3 Satan/Devil centered films
• The House of the Devil (2009)
• Ready or Not (2019)
• The Ninth Gate (1999)

1 Amicus film.
• Tales from the Crypt (1972)

The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access.
• Dracula 3000 (2004)

1 LGBTQ+ connected film
• Nightbreed (1990)

5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Morehead & Benson.
• Dressed to Kill (1980)
• The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
• Altered States (1980)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Spring (2014)

2 Peter Cushing films
• Tales from the Crypt (1972)
• The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

1 film based on a Clive Barker story
• Nightbreed (1990)

1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
• Deep Rising (1998)

1 Mario Bava film.
• Black Sunday (1960)

1 film with an 'x' in the title
• Jason X (2001)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
• Lifeforce (1985)

FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK:
• The Zodiac Killer (1971)
• 10 Rillington Place (1971)
• Shaky Shivers (2023)