Halloween month is here and all your favorite streaming services are happy to oblige with lots of spooky content. Welcome to io9’s latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)
As always, we’re including the best new films and TV coming to Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, and Max—as well as Paramount+, Shudder, and Peacock, including several new releases.
Here’s the best of what’s streaming in October 2024.
What’s coming to Netfix in October 2024?
October 1
21 Jump Street
22 Jump Street
The Birds
Elysium
Escape Plan
Halloween (2018)
It Chapter Two
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid Part II
The Karate Kid Part III
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda 3
Legion
Psycho
Psycho II
Red Dragon
Robin Hood (2010)
Robin Hood (2018)
Salt
Scarface
Yellowjackets: Season 1
You’re Next
October 4
It’s What’s Inside
October 8
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
October 10
Girl Haunts Boy
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
Scream
October 12
A Quiet Place Part II
Clifford the Big Red Dog
October 17
Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: Season 2
October 21
Kung Fu Panda 4
What’s coming to Prime Video in October 2024?
October 1
1984 (1985)
13 Going on 30 (2004)
The Adventures Of Shark Boy And Lava Girl (2005)
All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989)
Aquaman (2018)
Arrival (2016)
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Chappie (2015)
Charlotte’s Web (2006)
Clueless (1995)
Crawl (2019)
Diamonds are Forever (1971)
Die Another Day (2002)
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
Downsizing (2017)
Dr. No (1963)
Ex Machina (2015)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
From Russia with Love (1964)
Frosty the Snowman (1961)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Glass (2019)
Goldfinger (1965)
Good Burger (1997)
Goosebumps (2015)
Hannibal (2001)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Infinite (2021)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2013)
Licence to Kill (1989)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Love and Monsters (2020)
Lucy (2014)
Mad Max (1980)
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012)
Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)
Monster House (2006)
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
My Adventures with Santa (2019)
Nanny McPhee (2006)
Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)
No Time to Die (2021)
Octopussy (1983)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
One False Move (1992)
Open Season (2006)
Passengers (2016)
Planet 51 (2009)
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
Resident Evil (2002)
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (1970)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Shaft (2019)
Snatch (2001)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Spaceballs (1987)
Species (1995)
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Star Trek X: Nemesis (2002)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition (1979)
Stargate (1994)
Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
The Cable Guy (1996)
The Glass House (2001)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Raid 2 (2014)
The Raid: Redemption (2012)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
The Switch (2010)
The Thing (1982)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Witch (2016)
The World Is Not Enough (2000)
Thunderball (1965)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
True Romance (1993)
Twins (1988)
Wayne’s World (1992)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Zoolander (2001)
October 3
House of Spoils (2024)
October 4
The Boogeyman (2023)
October 15
Monkey Man (2024)
What’s coming to Hulu in October 2024?
October 1
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Barbarian (2022)
Coco (En Espanol) (2017)
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2014)
Don’t Say A Word (2001)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Fly (1986)
From Hell (2001)
The Happening (2008)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
It’s a Wonderful Knife (2023)
Joy Ride (2001) (2001)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)
Ma (2019)
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Purge (2013)
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
Ready or Not (2019)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Signs (2002)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Swimfan (2002)
The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
The Warrior’s Way (2010)
Unbreakable (2000)
Underwater (2020)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
October 11
Mr. Crocket
Aliens In The Attic (2009)
Fright Night (2011)
October 19
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Late Night with the Devil (2023)
What’s coming to Disney+ in October 2024?
October 18
LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition
What’s coming to Max in October 2024?
October 1
21 Jump Street (2012)
22 Jump Street (2014)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987)
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Dune (1984)
Edge of Darkness (2010)
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1992)
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1998)
Gremlins (1984)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
It (2017)
It: Chapter Two (2019)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Misery (1990)
Open Your Eyes (1999)
Poltergeist (1982)
Practical Magic (1998)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Stephen King’s It (1990)
The Conjuring (2013)
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
The Death of Superman (2018)
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016)
The Return of Godzilla (1985)
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005)
October 3
Gremlins: The Wild Batch, Season 2
Salem’s Lot (2024)
Velma: This Halloween Needs To Be More Special!
October 6
The Franchise, Season 1
October 18
MaXXXine
October 21
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
October 25
Trap (2024)
What’s coming to Paramount+ in October 2024?
October 1
28 Weeks Later
30 Days of Night
A Simple Plan
Allegiant
American Psycho
Antlers
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Buried
Cliffhanger
Deliver Us from Evil
Desperado
Divergent
Eyes Wide Shut
Finding Neverland
Flatliners
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th: Part II
Friday the 13th: Part III
Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Galaxy Quest
Gothika
Heaven Can Wait
Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline
Hellraiser V: Inferno
Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker
Hellraiser VII: Deader
Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld
Hide and Seek
Hugo
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Insurgent
Jennifer’s Body
John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Life
Marathon Man
Mirrors
Monstrous
Oculus
Only Lovers Left Alive
Orphan
Prospect
Queen of The Damned
Resident Evil
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 4
Scrooged
Sleepy Hollow
Snakes On a Plane
Spawn
Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Stephen King’s Thinner
Stir of Echoes
Surviving Christmas
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Swingers
Team America: World Police
The Belko Experiment
The Blob
The Core
The Day After Tomorrow
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Green Inferno
The Legend of Zorro
The Little Vampire
The Midnight Meat Train
The Net
The Orphanage
The Running Man
The Stepford Wives
The Truman Show
The Wicker Man (2006)
Universal Soldier
Vampire in Brooklyn
Weird Science
Willard (2003)
What’s coming to Shudder in October 2024?
October 1
The Boulet Brothers Season 6
Hush
WNUF Halloween Special
Exorcist III
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Nightbreed
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th Part II
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Takes Manhattan
The Houses October Built (2011)
3 From Hell
Rob Zombie’s 31
The Devil’s Rejects
Lords of Salem
Rob Zombie’s Halloween
Rob Zombie’s Halloween
It Follows
October 4
V/H/S/Beyond
Chucky Season 3
October 7
Demons
Demons II
Tenebrae
Phenomena
October 11
Daddy’s Head
October 15
Audition
Noroi: The Curse
October 18
MadS
October 25
Azrael
October 28
Satan’s Little Helper
October 30
The Exorcism
What’s coming to Peacock in October 2024?
October 1
1408
Arachnophobia
The Blob (1988)
Casper (‘95)
Christine (1983)
The Craft
Death Becomes Her
The Devil’s Rejects
Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark
Drag Me to Hell
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Final Girls
Flushed Away
The Fly (1986)
Fright Night
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hell Fest
The Hitcher
How to Train Your Dragon 2
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
I’m Not There
Isle of Dogs
It Follows
Jennifer’s Body
Land of the Lost
Last Night in Soho
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Leprechaun Origins
Leprechaun III
Leprechaun 4: Lost In Space
Leprechaun V: In The Hood
Leprechaun VI: Back 2 Tha Hood
Malignant
Masters of the Universe
Patient Zero
The Possession of Hannah Grace
Pride + Prejudice + Zombies
The Purge
The Purge: Anarchy
The Purge: Election Year
Rob Zombie’s Halloween
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II
Scared Shrekless
Shutter Island
Silent Hill
Spy Next Door
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Vacancy (2007)
The Vatican Tapes!
What Lies Beneath
Where The Scary Things Are
White Noise
Winter Castle
Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey 2
October 3
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
October 4
I Saw The Devil
October 11
Asteroid City
October 16
Furious 7
October 31