The theaters may be empty but the horror is coming home in giant waves. Let’s take a look at the massive assortment of scary movies, TV shows and games coming your way the third week of October!
Blumhouse welcomes you back to Welcome to the Blumhouse on October 13, with another double feature of horrifying new films on Amazon Prime! Evil Eye, directed by Elan and Rajeev Dasani, tells the story of a woman who thinks her daughter’s boyfriend is the reincarnation of a man who tried to murder her. The film is based on an award-winning Audible Original! There’s also Zu Quirke’s Nocturne, about a mild-mannered music student who starts overachieving when she acquires the notebook of a dead student.
October 13 also brings the debuts of two new horror films on DVD and Digital! In The Last Exorcist, Danny Trejo plays a priest who has to protect two sisters from a demonic evil, after all the priests who are actually trained in exorcisms die in a terrorist attack. And in Mimesis: Nosferatu, director Douglas Schultze (Mimesis) tells the story of a college stage production based on F.W. Murnau’s vampire classic Nosferatu, but the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur!
‘A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting’
Netflix reveals their latest horror exclusive on October 15 with A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting! The latest from director Rachel Talalay (Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Tank Girl) is a family friendly monster movie about a secret society of babysitters who protect kids from real-life, scary creatures.
Over on Shudder, October 15 brings the debut of the horror anthology The Mortuary Collection, starring Clancy Brown as a mortuary employee telling creepy morality tales to a prospective new hire. In their review at Bloody-Disgusting, Joe Lipsett calls the film “a fun and entertaining anthology,” but argues that the meta commentary about the individual tales is “both the strength and the weakness of the film.”
But wait, there’s more, and there’s more with Danny Trejo! The Last Exorcist star returns just two days later for the VOD release Bullets of Justice, a post-apocalyptic thriller about human/pig hybrid super soldiers who have put humans at the bottom of the food chain. Meanwhile, in virtual cinemas, October 15 marks the Virtual Cinema debut of Ten Minutes to Midnight, which stars Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) as a radio DJ who’s trapped in her station by a storm as she’s transforming into a vampire.
‘Ten Minutes to Midnight’
And if that’s not interactive enough for you, you can also download Ring of Pain on PC on October 15! The new film combines horror elements with card-based dungeon crawling gameplay mechanics.
We’re only partway through the week, if you can believe it! We still have a whole new horror-themed television series on Hulu arriving on October 16! Helstrom is an adaptation of the cult Marvel comic starring Sydney Lemmon and Tom Austen as mismatched siblings born from a normal woman and a wicked, serial killer father, who use their unique gifts to fight evil.
October 16 also brings the release of three new horror films! Alone stars Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf) as the survivor of a global pandemic, who’s trapped in his apartment building with zombie-esque infected surrounding him, and who must find a way to save another survivor in an apartment complex across the street. The film arrives on October 16 on VOD and Digital, and on DVD and Blu-ray on October 20.
‘Love and Monsters’
Final Destination creator Jeffrey Reddick makes his directorial debut with Don’t Look Back, a horror thriller about a group of people who witness a murder, do nothing, and suffer horrible deaths at the hands of a vengeful killer. The film arrives in theaters and demand on October 16.
And one more movie for this week: Love and Monsters, a film originally intended for a theatrical release that is instead debuting on PVOD! Dylan O’Brien stars as the survivor of a monster apocalypse, living in an underground bunker, who emerges into a world filled with giant, deadly creatures.
Last but not least, because no Halloween season would be complete without it, October 18 brings the latest installment in the iconic Treehouse of Horror series from The Simpsons! This year’s Halloween scare-tacular features installments inspired by Pixar’s Toy Story, animated in Pixar-esque three-dimensions, as well as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Netflix’s hit series Russian Doll.
There’s a LOT more horror yet to come this month, so stick around! We’ll be back next week with an all-new preview of creepy coming attractions!
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