It is October, and you’ll discover new horror choices proper now — no want to attend round till Halloween. Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video and different streaming companies are placing frights entrance and middle by offering recent TV and movie originals that may get your pores and skin crawling and coronary heart racing.
Along with these exclusives, streamers are maintaining the scares going with noteworthy movies that lately spooked audiences in theaters. The result’s a bloodcurdling lineup of serial killers, rituals, ghosts, zombies, monsters, killer clowns and extra. If that seems like a scary social gathering you’d need to attend, this is what horrors are brewing on streaming companies.
The Substance (Oct. 10, HBO Max)
Demi Moore stars on this wild physique horror flick as Elisabeth Sparkle, who will get fired from her job on a health TV present and turns to a product known as The Substance to create a unique model of herself. The Substance earned a finest image Oscar nomination (it gained for make-up and hairstyling), and now HBO Max subscribers will be capable of watch.
Vicious (Oct. 10, Paramount Plus)
Paramount Plus will supply this Dakota Fanning-led movie within the US following its world premiere at Incredible Fest. In Vicious, Fanning’s character is in for a relentlessly horrific night time after a stranger exhibits up with a mysterious field and tells her three issues go inside: one thing she wants, one thing she hates and one thing she loves.
I Know What You Did Final Summer time (Oct. 16, Netflix)
After protecting up their function in a deadly automotive accident, a gaggle of mates begin to be stalked by a vengeful killer on this new installment within the I Know What You Did Final Summer time franchise. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles from the primary two movies. Be aware that solely ad-free Netflix plan subscribers within the US — not ad-supported plan prospects — will be capable of stream the slasher film attributable to licensing restrictions.
Satan in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Oct. 16, Peacock)
Based mostly on a 2021 Peacock docuseries of the identical identify, this eight-episode scripted miniseries stars Michael Chernus because the infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy. The sequence will not present Gacy’s murders on-screen and can current the victims’ tales by way of flashbacks, in line with NBC.
Harlan Coben’s Lazarus (Oct. 22, Prime Video)
Thriller and a spooky environment are components of this new six-episode Harlan Coben thriller sequence, starring Sam Claflin and Invoice Nighy.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Oct. 22, Hulu)
Hulu has a remake of the 1992 psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the creepy calendar. Ominous vibes abound within the new model, which stars horror regulars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Maika Monroe as a suburban mother and new nanny.
The Elixir (Oct. 23, Netflix)
This upcoming Indonesian Netflix film unleashes zombie horrors after the proprietor of a natural drugs enterprise whips up an ill-fated new recipe.
Host (Oct. 23, Prime Video)
Disturbing incidents happen at an all-girls reform faculty on a secluded island on this new supernatural Thai horror film.
It: Welcome to Derry (Oct. 26, HBO Max)
Should you’ve seen 2017’s It and 2019’s It: Chapter Two, Invoice Skarsgård’s Pennywise wants no introduction. This new HBO prequel present will transport viewers to Derry, Maine, in 1962. Skarsgård and Andy Muschietti, the director of the aforementioned It movies, are each concerned within the bone-chilling sequence based mostly on Stephen King’s novel.
Carry Her Again (out now on HBO Max)
Carry Her Again is bleak and disturbing, with horrifying rituals and foster moms, and it has a scary good rating of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. The A24 movie has the identical administrators as 2022’s Speak to Me.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story (out now on Netflix)
The third season of Netflix’s darkish anthology sequence Monster is concerning the notorious Wisconsin serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein. Whether or not you watch the eight-episode installment impressed by his life or learn concerning the true story of the assassin, put together to be disturbed.
Issues go from unhealthy to worse for Kiara and Miles, who’re dealing with the tip of their marriage after which should attempt to survive supernatural forces on this unique Hulu movie.
