My first hooptober! My additional challenge is for my list to be ALL first time watches 😎

List is not complete yet- would love any recommendations! Also, unfortunately subject to change based off of streaming availability as movies come and go.

Because the movies I picked covered most of the rules, I added a few to round it up to 31 (+3 with the extra credits) that I’ve been wanting to see.

✅ = watched during the challenge 
☑️ = watched after the challenge 

There must be 31 films 

* 6 countries, technically already covered, but to make it to 31 I’m picking more!
   * House- Japan ✅
   * When Evil Lurks- Argentina ☑️
   * Pontypool- Canada ☑️
   * El Conde- Chile ✅
   * Eyes Without a Face- France✅
   * A Tale of 2 Sisters- South Korea
* 8 decades - easily covered
   *50s, 60s✅, 70s✅, 80s✅, 90s✅, 2000s✅, 2010s✅, 2020s✅
* 2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
    * The Road
    * Stakeland ✅
* 1 film with Robert Englund
    * The Urban Legend ✅
* 1 something is underground film
    * Nightbreed✅
* 3 Satan/Devil centered films (clearly a fan lol)
    * Ninth Gate ✅
    * The Exorcism of Emily Rose ✅
    * Devil ✅
    * The Exorcist III ✅
    * Deliver us from Evil ✅
* 1 Amicus film
    * Tales from the Crypt ✅
* The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access. 
    * Vampire Hookers
* 1 LGBTQ+ connected film
    * Nightbreed✅
* 5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorhead & Benson.
    * De Palma: Raising Cain
    * Craven: Serpent and the Rainbow
    * Russel: Altered States 
    * Moorhead/Benson-Synchronic✅
    * Moorhead/Benson: Resolution ✅
* 2 Peter Cushing films
    * Tales from the Crypt✅
    * Horror of Dracula
* 1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker
    * Horror of Dracula
* 1 film based on a Clive Barker story
    * Nightbreed ✅
    *Lord of Illusion ✅
* 1 film that was released the year that you turned 10
    *Dead End (2003) ☑️
* 1 Mario Bava film.
    * Bay of Blood
* 1 film with an 'x' in the title
    * The Exorcist 3 ✅
    * Exorcism of Emily Rose✅
* And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
    * Lifeforce
*Extra for funsies to get it to 31 ft more decade 
   *No One Will Save You ✅
   *Overlord (2010s)✅
   *VHS85 (2020s) ✅
   *The Fog (80s)✅

***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.