Hooptober 12 (2025)

2025 marks my first year participating in Hooptober, which is a yearly horror movie challenge started by Cinemonster over on Letterboxd. Aside from the one specific film that was specified to watch as part of the challenge, I have chosen only films I haven't seen before. Also, not sure if this is how it works, but since the Wizard of Oz isn't horror, I added another horror, bringing the list to 32 total, since the challenge said it was to be "31 horror films"

Following the end of the challenge I have rearranged the list in order of how much I enjoyed the films (this doesn't necessarily reflect the ratings I gave). I have included the watch order number in the notes of each entry.

31 horror films (31/31)

6 countries (other than Italy or US) (x) The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris (France) (x) Cure (Japan) (x) Threads (Australia/UK) (x) Nosferatu (Germany) (x) Sputnik (Russia) (x) Antiviral (Canada)

9 decades (x) The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris (1910s) (x) Vampyr (1930s) (x) Cat People (1940s) (x) Psycho (1960s) (x) The Wicker Man (1970s) (x) Dreamscape (1980s) (x) Mimic (1990s) (x) Pontypool (2000s) (x) Contracted (2010s)

5 Zombie Films (x) The Cured (x) Deadgirl (x) Life After Beth (x) Contracted (x) Pontypool

3 cult or conspiracy horror films (x) The Wicker Man (x) Apostle (x) Kill List

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead (x) Us

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director (x) Mimic

1 Canadian film (x) Antiviral

1 former Soviet state film (x) Sputnik

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access (x) Cat People

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films (x) Stake Land (x) Threads

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot (x) Dreamscape

1 The animals are pissed at us film (x) The Birds

1 Silent film (x) A Page of Madness

4 based on Novels (x) Pet Sematary (x) The Silence (x) Doctor Sleep (x) Nosferatu

Any film from Cinemonster's favourite horror movies list that you haven't seen (x) Possession

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film (x) All the Colors of the Dark

1 film from 1932 (x) Vampyr

1 Tobe Hooper Film (x) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

(x) The Wizard of Oz

NOTE: Obviously, some of the films fall under multiple categories above.