baby’s first hooptober!!!!!
(last year’s attempt does NOT count)

QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films

6 countries
All the Colors of the Dark/Tutti i colori del buio (1972, Italy + Satan)
High Tension/Haute Tension (2003, France)
The Sadness/Kū Bēi (2021, Taiwan + post-apocalyptic)
The Traveller/El caminante (1979, Spain + Satan)
House/Hausu (1977, Japan)
Mother Joan of the Angels/Matka Joanna od Aniolów (1961, Poland)

8 decades
Gaslight (1944)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957 + Peter Cushing)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Rabid (1977)
The Hunger (1983)
Mimic (1997 + 1 something is underground film)
Trick ‘r Treat (2007 + released the year you turned 10)
The Lords of Salem (2012)

2 post-apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
Alien (1979)
(+ The Sadness)

1 film with Robert Englund
New Nightmare (1994)

3 satan/devil centered films
Sheitan (2006)
(+ All the Colors of the Dark)
(+ The Traveller)

1 Amicus film
The Deadly Bees (1966)

the worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven’t seen and can access
Dracula 3D (2012)

1 LGBTQ+ connected film
School of the Holy Beast (1974)

5 films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock, and/or Moorehead & Benson
Phantom of the Paradise (1974, De Palma)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977, Craven)
Gothic (1986, Russell)
Dial M For Murder (1954, Hitchcock)
Cursed (2005, Craven)

2 Peter Cushing films
Dracula (1958)
(+ The Curse of Frankenstein)

1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
Dracula (1931)

1 film based on a Clive Barker story
Dread (2009)

1 Mario Bava film
Blood and Black Lace (1964)

1 film with an ‘X’ in the title
Saw X (2023)

and 1 Tobe Hooper film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
Poltergeist (1982)

-review them all.(eek)
Clearly one film can satisfy multiple criteria. Viewing and reviewing will begin at 12:01 a.m. cst on Sept 15.