This year for my annual horror pilgrimage I'll be joining in on the Hoop-Tober fun in my own way. I'm still only doing it from October 1st to the 31st though, because that's been my challenge for years now. I tinkered with the idea to modify Cinemonster's challenges so it's more films for myself, but I'm such a lazy bastard I just added the challenges at the end. (so lazy in fact that I just copied this from last year's intro)

Main Links
-All My Horroctober Lists - Cinemonster's Hoop-Tober 4.0

Other LBers Lists
-Horroctober - Hoop-Tober - Shocktober

-------------------The Challenges-------------------
-The George A. Romero Challenge (10/10)
Watch 10 Romero films to mark his passing and celebrate his career.

-The Tobe Hooper Challenge (10/10)
Watch 10 Hooper films to mark his passing and celebrate his career.

-October Date Specific Challenges (10/10)
Watch the following movies on these dates.
2nd - Near Dark on it's 30th Anniversary (X)
5th - A Clive Barker film on his birthday (X)
13th - A Friday the 13th film on Friday the 13th (X)
16th - Candyman on it's 25th Anniversary (X)
20th - A Bela Lugosi film on his birthday (X)
20th - The Old Dark House on it's 85th Anniversary (X)
22nd - Halloween III: Season of the Witch on it's 35th Anniversary (X)
23rd - A Sam Raimi film on his birthday (X)
23rd - Prince of Darkness on it's 30th Anniversary (X)
29th - Q on it's 35th Anniversary (X)

-The Chucky Challenge (7/7)
Watch all Child's Play films leading up to Cult of Chucky.

-The Jigsaw Challenge (8/8)
Watch all Saw films leading up to Jigsaw.

-The Horror Actor Icons Challenge (5/5)
Watch at least one film featuring each of these horror icons:
-Boris Karloff (X)
-Christopher Lee (X)
-Peter Cushing (X)
-Vincent Price (X)
-Robert Englund (X)

-The Horror Director Icons Challenge (5/5)
Watch at least one film from each of the following seven directors:
-Terence Fisher (X)
-Mario Bava (X)
-Wes Craven (X)
-Dario Argento (X)
-John Carpenter (X)

-The Universal Monsters Challenge (5/5)
Watch at least five Universal Monsters films, because you need a well rounded history of horror.

-The Hammer Horror Challenge (5/5)
Watch at least five Hammer Horror films, for the same reason as Universal.

-The Full Moon Challenge (1/1)
Watch at least one film from Full Moon Features because watching shitty horror films produced by Charles Band is part of being a fan of horror. On the off chance I watch a good one, it won't count.

-The Trick 'r Treat on Halloween Challenge (2/2)
I watch Trick 'r Treat and Halloween every year, so might as well add them as challenge, twist is that they can't count towards other challenges.

-Hoop-Tober 4.0 Challenge (38/38)
6 Sequels (6/6)
6 Countries (6/6)
6 Decades (6/6)
6 Films from before 1970 (6/6)
6 Films from: Carpenter, Raimi, Whale, Browning, Craven, Holland (6/6)
3 people eating people (non-zombie) (3/3)
1 Hammer Film (1/1)
1 Romero Dead film (1/1)
1 Terrible Oversight (1/1)
2 Tobe Hooper Films (2/2)

-The Overachiever Challenge (17/∞)
Finally, because I'm going to do it anyways, see how many films I squeeze in that have nothing to do with the challenges or go beyond the ones already completed.

Click the List View to see which films fit which challenge and links to reviews.