All the Horror You Need to Stream in October 2022

Welcome to Horrorscope, a monthly column keeping horror nerds and initiates up to date on all the horror content coming to and leaving from your favorite streaming services. Here’s what to watch in October 2022:

I’m not going to waste your time with idle chatter! There’s far too much ooky spooky content to get to. Many streaming services really stepped up to the plate this month. You won’t be disappointed. But you will need a strategy to make the most of this bananapants month. Be sure to peruse the complete list below, calendar in hand, for a full picture of what horror movies are coming and going from your favorite streaming services in October 2022.

Please keep in mind that all dates listed below may not apply to viewers outside the US.

Cheat Sheet: October 2022 Horror Streaming

• Scream Factory is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with “31 Nights of Horror.” From the 1st to the 31st of the month at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET, tune in for a FREE fan-picked double feature. Tune in here!
• Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween will be back for a third season with twenty spooky shorts in conjunction with Huluween. Check it out on October 1st.
• If you’re a fan of Ari Aster, you may want to tune in to The Criterion Channel on October 15th for Adventures in Moviegoing with the Hereditary and Midsommar director.
• Guillermo del Toro‘s Cabinet of Curiosities is hitting Netflix on October 25th. Talent includes everyone from David Prior (The Empty Man) to Jennifer Kent (The Babadook)!
• … and there’s a new Netflix series from Mike Flanagan hitting the service on October 7th: The Midnight Club.
• Terror on Tubi is back, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. The celebration of all things spooky boasts “13,000 spooky, eerie, thrilling, creepy, and terrifying titles,” including six Tubi Originals. In related news Tubi (which, as a reminder: is free) continues to be the best streaming service.
• Shudder series worth knowing about that are continuing through October include The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time (new eps. on Wednesdays); Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (new eps. on Fridays); Joe Bob’s Haunted Halloween Hangout (premieres on October 21st), and finally: The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans (premieres on October 25th).

• Franchise double bills you can make out of films leaving HBO Max on October 31st:
  • 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later
  • The Blair Witch Project and Book of the Shadows: Blair Witch 2
  • House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects

• Franchise double bills you can make out of films leaving Hulu on October 31st:
  • Alien v. Predator and Alien v. Predator: Requiem
  • The Blair Witch Project and Book of the Shadows: Blair Witch 2
  • Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II
  • Hostel and Hostel: Part II
  • Predator, Predator II, Predators

The streaming service champion of the month is the Criterion Channel. Not only did they add a whole lot of incredible horror content to their platform this month, but they also struck a great balance between class and camp.

The streaming service dunce of the month is Disney+. Stay losing, suckers. Other than Werewolf by Night, ya’ll aren’t bringing much to the table.

Collection Corner: October 2022 Horror Streaming

• The Criterion Channel — ’80s Horror
  • Inferno (1980, dir. Dario Argento); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981, dir. Walerian Borowczyk); Dead & Buried (1981, dir. Gary Sherman); The House by the Cemetery (1981, Lucio Fulci); The Funhouse (1981, Tobe Hooper); Strange Behavior (1981, Michael Laughlin); Wolfen (1981, dir. Michael Wadleigh); Scanners (1981, dir. David Cronenberg); Road Games (1981, dir. Richard Franklin); The Fan (1981, dir. Ed Bianchi); Basket Case (1982, dir. Frank Henenlotter); Next of Kin (1982, dir. Tony Williams); Cat People (1982, dir. Paul Schrader); Q: The Winged Serpent (1982, dir. Larry Cohen); The Slumber Party Massacre (1982, dir. Amy Holden Jones); The Keep (1983, dir. Michael Mann); The Hunger (1983, dir. Tony Scott); Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986, dir. John McNaughton); The Hidden (1987, dir. Jack Sholder); Prince of Darkness (1987, dir. John Carpenter); White of the Eye (1987, dir. Donald Cammell); Near Dark (1987, Kathryn Bigelow); The Vanishing, George Sluizer, 1988; Brain Damage (1988, dir. Frank Henenlotter); Dream Demon (1988, dir. Harley Cokeliss); The Blob (1988, dir. Chuck Russell); The Lair of the White Worm (1988, dir. Ken Russell); Vampire’s Kiss (1989, dir. Robert Bierman); Society (1989, dir. Brian Yuzna); Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto).

• The Criterion Channel — Vampires
  • Dracula (1931, dir. Tod Browning); Dracula (1931, dir. George Melford); Vampyr (1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer); Isle of the Dead (1945, dir. Mark Robson); The Velvet Vampire (1971, dir. Stephanie Rothman); Daughters of Darkness (1971, dir. Harry Kümel); Blacula (1972, dir. William Crain); Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, dir. Werner Herzog); Fascination (1979, dir. Jean Rollin); The Living Dead Girl (1982, dir. Jean Rollin); The Hunger (1983, dir. Tony Scott); Near Dark (1987, dir. Kathryn Bigelow); Vampire’s Kiss (1988, dir. Robert Bierman); Cronos (1993, dir. Guillermo del Toro); Blood & Donuts (1995, dir. Holly Dale); Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002, dir. Guy Maddin); Let the Right One In (2008, dir. Tomas Alfredson); Thirst (2009, dir. Park Chan-wook); A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour).

• The Criterion Channel — Universal Horror Classics
  • Dracula (1931, dir. Tod Browning); Dracula (1931, dir. George Melford); Frankenstein (1931, dir. James Whale); The Mummy (1932, dir. Karl Freund); The Invisible Man (1933, dir. James Whale); The Black Cat (1934, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer); Bride of Frankenstein (1935, dir. James Whale); The Raven (1935, dir. Lew Landers); Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, dir. Jack Arnold).

• The Criterion Channel — Ishiro Honda: King of the Monsters
  • Godzilla, 1954; Godzilla, King of the Monsters, 1956; Rodan, 1956; The Mysterians, 1957; Varan the Unbelievable, 1958; Atragon, 1963; Matango, 1963; Dogora, 1964; Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, 1964; Mothra vs. Godzilla, 1964; Frankenstein vs. Baragon, 1965; Invasion of Astro-Monster, 1965; The War of the Gargantuas, 1966; Destroy All Monsters, 1968; All Monsters Attack, 1969; Space Amoeba, 1970; Terror of Mechagodzilla, 1975.

• ARROW — The Season of the Witch (as of Oct. 7)
  • Two Witches (2021, dir. Pierre Tsigaridis); The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976, dir. Matt Cimber); The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968, dir. Noriaki Yuasa); Hagazussa (2017, dir. Lukas Feigelfeld).

• ARROW — Why Can’t A Girl Walk Home Alone At Night? (as of Oct. 10)
  • Take Back the Night (2021, dir. Gia Elliot); Unsafe Spaces (2021, dir. Connor Sandheinrich); The Wind (1986, Nico Mastorakis); Bed Bug (2021, Neil D’Monte); Irezumi (1966, Yasuzô Masumura).

• ARROW — Ghastly Gothic (as of Oct. 14)
  • The Blancheville Monster (1963, dir. Alberto De Martino); The Witch (1966, dir. Damiano Damiani); The Third Eye (1966, dir. Mino Guerrini); Lady Morgan’s Vengeance (1965, dir. Massimo Pupillo); Mill of the Stone Women (1960, dir. Giorgio Ferroni); … and many more!

• ARROW — Co-Ed Carnage (as of Oct. 21)
  • Hell High (1989, dir. Douglas Grossman); Girls Nite Out (1982, Robert Deubel); Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015, dir. Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon); Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988, dir. David DeCoteau); Torso (1973, dir. Sergio Martino); .. and many more!

• ARROW — The Mutilator Watch along Collection (as of Oct. 28)
  • The Mutilator (1984, dir. Buddy Cooper) watchalong; The Stylist (2020, dir. Jill Gevargizian); Threshold (1981, dir. Richard Pearce); A Ghost Waits (2020, dir. Adam Stovall); Dementer (2019, dir. Chad Crawford Kinkle); Satanic Panic (2019, dir. Chelsea Stardust); Man Under Table (2021, dir. Noel David Taylor); a collection of short films from Brian Lonano.

• Netflix — Streams & Screams
  • Just go over to netflix.com/halloween, and you’ll be greeted with all the ooky spooky content that the platform has to offer in one easy place.

• Shudder — “All Hail Argento”
  • The director’s newest film, Dark Glasses, arrives on October 13
  • New additions: Opera, The Stendhal Syndrome (October 10th)
  • Existing films: Deep Red, Tenebrae, Inferno, Trauma, The Cato’ Nine Tails, Demons, Demons 2.

• Shudder — House of Psychotic Women
  • This collection is a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Kier-La Janisse’s groundbreaking and influential dive into female neuroses onscreen and in horror.
  • Collection includes new additions and existing titles: I Like Bats, Footprints, Identikit, The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!, The Stendhal Syndrome, May, Santa Sangre, Alone with You, American Mary, Asylum, The Babadook, The Baby, Bleed with Me, Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker, Carnival of Souls, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Darling, Il Demonio, Dream No Evil, I Blame Society, Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, Knife of Ice, Knocking, The Midnight Swim, May, Ms. 45, Next of Kin, Orgasmo, Phenomena, Prevenge, and Resurrection.

Horror Streaming Highlights for October 2022

Pick of the Month: Deadstream (2022)

Synopsis: Popular live stream host and permanently canceled influencer Shawn Ruddy is about to make one last-ditch attempt to assure sponsors (and his dwindling audience) that he’s still got it. The stunt: he’s going to spend the night in a haunted house. Armed with a backpack full of go-pros and an arsenal of ghosthunting paraphernalia, Shawn’s apology tour quickly takes a turn when it turns out that the house is indeed haunted as fuck.

Co-directed and co-written by husband-wife duo Joseph and Vanessa Winter, Deadstream is a genuinely hilarious and tension-filled found-footage gem that, at under 90-minutes (!), is a must-watch for horror fans. Deadstream is as much an ode to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead films as it is an innovative take on the live-stream horror genre (easily pummeling the low bar set by its abysmal competitors). It’s fun, it’s freaky, and the Winters are clearly a horror director duo worth keeping an eye on (and you can do just that by checking out their segment in V/H/S/99 when it premieres on Shudder on October 20).

Available on Shudder on October 6

The final entry in the “H40 Trilogy”

Synopsis: It’s been four years since the events of Halloween Kills, and eternal final girl Laurie Strode is determined to live, laugh, love, and finish her memoir. But the arrival of a young accused killer, Corey, threatens to bring violence, mayhem, and who knows, maybe even Michael Myers, back into Laurie’s life. 

David Gordon Green‘s Halloween trilogy is coming to a close. And if the sinister late-promo trailer is to be believed, DGG might be of a mind to give us some conclusive answers to the ultimate fates of Laurie and Michael. Which probably means that we’re going to get another reboot trilogy in, oh, I don’t know, three years?

Available on Peacock on October 14

A Henry Selick and Jordan Peele joint? Hell yeah.

Synopsis: A troubled goth teenager with supernatural talents summons two demon brothers, who must put their long-time dream of defying their demon dad on hold when they find themselves swept up in a local conspiracy to turn the teen’s hometown into a private prison.

Henry Selick is in the director’s chair (his first feature since Coraline!). He is sharing the screenwriting sofa with Jordan Peele (Nope). The likes of James Hong, Ving Rames, Keegan-Michael Key, and Angela Bassett. By all accounts dark, imaginative, and a joyful carnivalesque experience, Wendell & Wild deserves a spot on your watchlist this month.

Available on Netflix on October 28

The best Hellraiser film since ‘Hellbound’ (a low bar, but let me have this, please!)

Synopsis: Through a series of improbable events, a young recently-recovered drug addict named Riley comes into possession of a very evil-looking puzzle box that definitely, almost assuredly, will summon a bunch of S&M demons. But with her recent relapse, can Riley really trust what she’s seeing?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Saying a film is the “best Hellraiser sequel since Hellbound” is like saying that sugar tastes sweeter than sand. But still: we have a new Hellraiser film that has a balance of pleasure and pain (most of the franchise is just the latter). We’ve got a new Pinhead in Jamie Clayton, and with The Night House director David Bruckner at the helm, we’ll be in good, goopy hands, methinks. Only one way to find out! … now where did we put that obviously evil puzzle box, uh, I mean remote.

Available on Hulu on October 7th.

Streamable Horror Incoming This Month

Horror Titles Expiring from Streaming Soon