With Halloween on the horizon, October is going to be a big month for streaming original series and movies on Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. But the biggest debut of the month, by far, is the return of Stranger Things for a second season on Netflix. The first season of the Duffer Brothers’ ’80s fantasy and horror homage captured our collective imaginations, and we’ve been eagerly awaiting our return trip to the Upside Down. Stranger Things first season is a tough act to follow, but we’re counting down the days to season two’s debut on October 27.

Also coming to Netflix this month are Voltron: Legendary Defender season 4, and the first season of David Fincher’s Mindhunter, which is a very dark crime series that looks back at the early days of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit. But if it’s more over-the-top horror you’re looking for, Cult of Chucky is also making its Netflix debut on October 3, the same day that the Blu-ray and DVD go on sale.

Next month, Hulu is bringing the fifth season of The Mindy Project and the season premiere of Freakish. All ten seasons of Smallville will also be available on the streaming service, alongside American Horror Story: Roanoke and Adventure Time season 7. Some of our favorite movies heading to Hulu next month include both volumes of Kill Bill, The Warriors, and Groundhog Day.

Amazon Prime is bringing Arrival, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and Fargo to its streaming service, as well as Darren Aronofsky’s debut film, Pi. In the realm of television series, the fifth season of The Americans is a can’t miss, and there’s also the third and final season of Red Oaks. But the Amazon original that really has our attention this month is Lore, a new horror anthology series based on the popular podcast of the same name.

Netflix

10/1

88 Minutes
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song
Before Midnight
Blood Diamond
Boogie Nights
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cleverman: Season 2
Death Sentence
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Eagle vs. Shark
Eyes Wide Shut
Generation Iron 2
Ghost Patrol
I Love You, Man
Ice Guardians
Lockup: Disturbing the Peace: Collection 1
Made of Honor
Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Must Love Dogs
Never Let Me Go
No Reservations
Penelope
PJ Masks: Season 1
Set Up
The Reaping
Tokyo Idols
Tommy Boy
Vanished
Veronica

10/2

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Sleeping with Other People

10/3

13 Demons
Rodney Carrington: Here Comes The Truth 
Cult of Chucky
The Survivalist

10/4

Raw

10/5

Bonus Family: Season 1
Schitt’s Creek: Season 3
The Fosters: Season 5

10/6

ID-0: Season 1
Skylanders Academy: Season 2
Suburra: Season 1
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Word Party: Season 3

10/7

Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life
Middle Man

10/10

Christina P: Mother Inferior
The Skyjacker’s Tale

10/11

Donnie Darko

10/12

Fe de etarras

10/13

El Especial de Alex Fernández, el Especial
Kingdom of Us
Mindhunter: Season 1
Super Monsters: Season 1
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
The Babysitter
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Voltron: Legendary Defender: Season 4

10/15

Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses
LEGO: City: Season 1
Money
OtherLife
She Makes Comics
West Coast Customs: Season 6

10/17

Patton Oswalt: Annihilation
Slasher: Guilty Party

10/19

Wedding Unplanned

10/20

1922
Haters Back Off: Season 2
One of Us
Smurfs: The Lost Village
The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story
Wheelman

10/23

Meet the Robinsons
While We’re Young

10/24

Wanted: Season 1
Wanted: Season 2
The Mist: Season 1

10/25

The Hateful Eight
The Final Master
La Querida del Centauro: Season 2

10/26

Strange Weather

10/27

Stranger Things: Season 2
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

10/28

Pup Star: Better 2Gether

10/30

Judah Friedlander: America Is The Greatest Country In The United States 

10/31

Zumbo’s Just Desserts: Season 1

Hulu

10/1

60 Days In: Seasons 1-2
Alone: Seasons 1-2
American Pickers: Seasons 1 & 11
Ancient Aliens: Season 11
Ax Men: Seasons 1 & 9
Born this Way: Seasons 1-2
Bring It!: Seasons 1-3
Chopped: Seasons 14-16
Counting Cars: Season 1
The Curse of Oak Island: Season 1
Dance Moms: Seasons 1 & 6
Escaping Polygamy: Seasons 1-2
The First 48: Seasons 6, 16-17
Forged in Fire: Seasons 1-3
Hoarders: Season 4
House Hunters: Season 7
Hunting Hitler: Seasons 1-2
Prison Break: Seasons 1-5
Property Brothers: Season 5
The Rap Game: Seasons 1-2
Saving Hope: Season 5
Tiny House Hunters: Seasons 1-2
Worst Cooks in America: Season 4
1492: Conquest of Paradise
50 First Dates
6 Dead Souls
A Fistful of Dollars
A Long Walk Home
Abduction of Jennifer Grayson
Across the Great Divide
Across the Universe
The Adventures of Panda Warrior
Alice
The Amityville Horror
Another 9 ½ Weeks
Arlo: The Burping Pig
Arthur’s Missing Pal
Asylum of Darkness
Bananas
Bethany
Blood Ransom
Blue Chips
The Bounty
Broadway Danny Rose
Broken Mile
Brotherhood of Justice
Bubba the Redneck Werewolf
Butterfly Girl
Cabin Fear
Cabin Fever
Care Bears: Friends Forever
Care Bears: Magical Adventures
Carrie
Carrie 2: The Rage
Clueless
The Confession
Congo
Covenant
The Creature Below
The Crying Game
Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest
The Cutting Edge
Deliver Us from Evil
Deuces Wild
The Devil’s Advocate
The Devil’s Double
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
The Disembodied
Election
Elephant Kingdom
End of a Gun
Enemy at the Gate
Escape From Alcatraz
Escape From L.A.
Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
The Faculty
Fall Time
Fargo
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fierce People
The Final Cut
Fire in the Sky
A Fistful of Dollars
Fly Me to the Moon
Frances
Frog Kingdom
From Dusk till Dawn
Gandhi
The Ghost and the Darkness
Ghost World
Ghosts of Darkness
Ghoulies
Ghoulies II
The Glass Coffin
Godzilla
Godzilla 2000
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
Godzilla Vs. Destroyah
Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II
Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus: The G Annihilation Strategy
Godzilla Vs. Mothra
Godzilla Vs. Spacegodzilla
Godzilla, Mothra, And King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Grease 2
Guess Who
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Hatchet
Heaven Can Wait
Hellboy
Hemingway’s Garden of Eden
High Tension
The Holiday
Hostel
Hostel 2
Hot Pursuit
The Human Stain
The Hunted
Hunting Grounds
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jesus’s Son
Kalifornia
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Little Shop of Horrors
A Long Walk Home
Love Finds You in Valentine
Love Hurts
The Maddening
The Madness of King George
March of the Penguins
Mousehunt
New Year’s Evil
Ninja III: The Domination
The One
Oogieloves: The Big Balloon Adventure
Out of Time
Paulie
Pet Sematary
Philadelphia
Pi
Pieces of April
Postcards from the Edge
Pride
The Punisher
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman
Reds
Rent
Road House
Scream at the Devil
Snake Eyes
Southwest of Salem
Space Guardians
Species III
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
The Station Agent
Swingers
Teenage Ghost Punk
This Binary Universe
The Uninvited
Under Siege
U.S vs. John Lennon
The Velveteen Rabbit
Volver
Warpath
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000
What Lies Beneath
The Whistleblower
Yellowbird

10/2

Bob’s Burgers: Season 8 Premiere
Family Guy: Season 16 Premiere
Ghosted: Series Premiere
The Last Man on Earth: Season 4 Premiere
Shark Tank: Season 9 Premiere
The Simpsons: Season 29 Premiere
Ten Days in the Valley: Series Premiere
The Toy Box: Season 2 Premiere

10/3

American Horror Story: Season 6
The Gifted: Series Premiere
Lucifer: Season 3 Premiere

10/4

Black-ish: Season 4 Premiere
Fresh off the Boat: Season 4 Premiere
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World: Series Premiere
The Mayor: Series Premiere
The Middle: Season 9 Premiere
Bad Frank
Colossal
Frontera
Rapture-Palooza
The Reagan Show

10/5

The Fog

10/6

Scandal: Season 7 Premiere

10/7

Once Upon a Time: Season 7 Premiere
Blair Witch

10/9

America’s Funniest Home Videos: Season 28 Premiere
A Long Way Down

10/10

Brotherhood of Blades

10/11

Chance: Season 2 Premiere
Folk Hero & Funny Guy
The Lookalike

10/12

I Love You, America: Series Premiere
Blind
I Love You Both

10/14

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

10/15

Bounce
Cruel and Unusual
The Crying Game
The Fly Room
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Jersey Girl
Like Water for Chocolate
Mamaboy
The Other Dream Team
Orthodox
This is Meg
Undisputed
Unzipped
The Whole Truth

10/18 

Freakish: Season 2
Arctic Adventure: On Frozen Pond
In the Radiant City
Isolation
No Way to Live
Phoenix Forgotten
Skating to New York

10/21

Adventure Time: Season 9
Too Funny To Fail 

10/26

Neon Joe: Complete Season 2
2:22

10/28

Blindspot: Season 3 Premiere
Arrival

10/29

Catfish: Season 6
Priceless
That Sugar Film

10/31

Midnight Express

Amazon Prime

10/1

Abandoned Mine
Alcoholist
Apartment 1303
Bunker of the Dead
Clueless
Election
Escape from L.A.
Fargo
Ghost World
Ghoulies
Ghoulies II
I Believe in Unicorns
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jug Face
Margot at the Wedding
Needlestick
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary Two
Pi
Queens and Cowboys
Scareycrows
Snake Eyes
Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
The Machinist
The Whistleblower
Unlimited

10/2

Song to Song
Beauty and the Baker: Season 1

10/3

American Horror Story: Season 6

10/4

Blood Hunters
Save My Seoul

10/5

The Americans: Season 5

10/6

The Fashion Hero: Season 1

10/7

Blair Witch
Megan Leavey

10/9

Inside Edge

10/11

5150

10/13

City of Ghosts 
Lore: Season 1
Sigmund and the Sea Monster: Season 1

10/14

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

10/15

The Other Dream Team
The Whole Truth

10/18

Fight for Space

10/20

The Wall 
Red Oaks: Season 3

10/25

Awaken the Shadowman
The Liberators

10/26

Strange Weather

10/28

Arrival

10/29

Priceless

What streaming shows and movies are you looking forward to watching in October? Share your picks in the comment section below!

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