Only watched random horror movies that I hadn't seen before in earlier years in October and I thought of going by the official rules this time around. A little late to the party as I should've started watching and reviewing from the 15th of September but I'll try to complete this by the end of October.

The criteria for HoopTober X 2023:

There must be 31 films!

1 LGBTQ+ connected film:
Deep Red ✅

1 Amicus film:
Tales from the Crypt ✅

1 something is underground film:
The Descent ✅

1 Mario Bava film:
Blood and Blacklace ✅

1 film based on a Clive Barker story:
Hellraiser ✅

6 countries:
Italy ✅, Germany ✅, Sweden ✅, Japan ✅, UK ✅, India ✅

8 decades:
1910s ✅, 1920s ✅, 1950s ✅, 1960s ✅, 1970s ✅, 1980s ✅, 1990s ✅, 2000s ✅

2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films:
Escape from New York ✅
Land of the Dead

1 film with Robert Englund:
Dead & Buried ✅

3 Satan/Devil centered films:
Faust ✅
Night of the Demon
Dante's Inferno ✅

The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access:
Dracula 3000 ✅

5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorhead & Benson:
Phantom of the Paradise
Scream
Altered States ✅
The Birds
Synchronic

2 Peter Cushing films:
The Curse of Frankenstein ✅
Tales from the Crypt ✅

1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker:
Nosferatu the Vampyre

1 film that was released the year that you turned 10:
Let the Right One In ✅

1 film with an 'x' in the title:
X The Man With X-Ray Eyes ✅

And THERE MUST ALWAYS BE A Tobe Hooper Film:
Eggshells

Note: Did not finish the list in 2023, only watched 20 of the 32 movies on the list, which I've ranked here. The rest of the movies were watched as part of HoopTober 11 : Of Man-Made Horrors, Terrifying Forces of Nature, and the Return to Texas 🎃