I am doing this year's Hooptober for charity and will be donating $10 for each film I complete to the Alameda County Community Food Bank here in Oakland, CA.

Last years Hooptober 5.0 was a monster blast, and I want to push myself harder to rocket past the record I set last year of 300 watched films, so for a tougher challenge this year I'm attempting to select unique films for each ruleset.

We'll see how it goes!

See @cinemonster's list for the ruleset.
The following are a couple modifications I've made to their prompts:

· Instead of two women-directed films, I'm screening four.
· Screening the entire It's Alive series because RIP Larry Cohen.
· Four films with a black director and/or predominately black cast (instead of one).
· Adding a bonus inclusion of the House series because I've been meaning to see it, and fuck it I'm already over 50 films might as well add another four.
· Two (instead of one) Tobe Hooper films to fill out my Tobe backlog.
· And finally, capping it off with a screening of the WNUF Halloween Special on Halloween Night for obvious reasons.

I also tried to pull as much from my watchlist and physical copy backlog as I could. All that said, the following are my choices for this years Hooptober Spectacular Celebration Bonanza:

6 countries
· Cat's Eye (1985): Netherlands
· Tenebre (1982): Italy
· eXistenZ (1999): France
· The Babadook (2014): Australia
· Hausu (1977): Japan
· The Omen (1976): UK

6 decades
· The Wolf Man (1941)
· Strait-Jacket (1964)
· Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
· Cutting Class (1989)
· Shock 'Em Dead (1991)
· Saint Bernard (2013)

6 films from before 1966
· House on Haunted Hill (1959)
· Dracula (1931)
· Drácula (1931)
· House of Wax (1953)
· The Invisible Man (1933)
· The Hitch Hiker (1953)

6 films whose year ends in '6
· Kill Baby, Kill (1966)
· The Food of the Gods (1976)
· God Told Me To (1976)
· Blood Hook (1986)
· The Devil's Honey (1986)
· Beyond the Gates (2016)

6 films featuring work from the following...
· Troll (1986): John Carl Buechler
· Frankenstein (1931): Jack Pierce
· Deep Rising (1998): Rob Bottin
· Faust: Love of the Damned (2000): Screaming Mad George
· The Unknown (1927): Lon Chaney
· Four Flies on Grey Velvet: Carlo Rambaldi

The 6th film of a franchise
· Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

1 Reptile Rampage film as tribute to Crawl
· Alligator (1980)

4 women directed films
· Jennifer's Body (2009): Karyn Kusama
· Blood Diner (1987): Jackie Kong
· Tigers Are Not Afraid (2019): Issa López
· The Bad Batch (2016): Ana Lily Amirpour

The lowest rated film from the 80s that you can access
· Hobgoblins (1988)

1 film where the men and women of the church are having a bad day
· The Devils (1971)

The It's Alive trilogy because RIP Larry Cohen
· It's Alive (1974)
· It Lives Again (1978)
· It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)

1 Classic Universal
· The Mummy (1932)

1 film with Dee Wallace in it
· The Frighteners (1996)

Four films with a black director or predominantly black cast
· Blacula (1972)
· Bones (2001)
· Petey Wheatstraw (1977)
· Ganja & Hess (1973)

1 film from a Mexican director to honor 2 great films from Gigi Saul Guerrero & Issa López
· The Bees (1978)

Two Tobe Hooper films
· Lifeforce (1985)
· The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

Bonus series because I might as well
· House (1986)
· House II: The Second Story (1987)
· House III: The Horror Show (1989)
· House IV (1992)