october can't come soon enough. my only rule is that everything has to be either a new watch or something i haven't seen in a handful of years.

Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over via Cinemonster

QUICK EASY RULES:

There must be 31 films

6 countries
Mexico - Alucarda (1977)
Latvia - Spider (1992)
Poland - The Lure (2015)
England - Enys Men (2022)
Spain - Piggy (2022)

8 decades (most covered via other picks)
1950s: House on Haunted Hill (1959)
1990s: Ghostwatch (1992)
2020s: Totally Killer (2023)

2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
Escape from New York (1981)
Dredd (2012)

1 film with Robert Englund
Dead & Buried (1981)

1 something is underground film
C.H.U.D. (1984)

3 Satan/Devil centered films
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)

1 Amicus film
The Vault of Horror (1973)

The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access
Dracula 2000 (2000)

1 LGBTQ+ connected film
Interview with the Vampire (1994)

5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson
Psycho (1960)
Altered States (1980)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Scream 2 (1997)

2 Peter Cushing films
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)

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
Disturbia (2007)

1 Mario Bava film
Black Sabbath (1963)

1 film with an 'x' in the title
The Exorcist (1973) rip friedkin </3

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Body Bags (1993)

***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.