The Halloween season is in full swing and October is right around the corner. What does that mean? Well, it means we’re about to be hit with an absolute deluge of new horror movies.
October is always loaded up on fresh frights on the small screen and big screen, and that’s why we’ve put together the ultimate Halloween Movie Guide with a spotlight on 31 NEW HORROR MOVIES releasing throughout October. 31 days… 31 new movies… it seems only right.
Read on for Bloody Disgusting’s Halloween 2024 Movie Guide!
Bloody Disgusting’s Halloween Movie Guide is presented by Apartment 7A starring Julia Garner. Add the new psychological thriller to your Halloween watch list.
CRACKCOON – OCTOBER 1 – SCREAMBOX
Just when you thought it was safe to take out the trash… The SCREAMBOX Original horror-comedy Crackcoon has been fittingly described as “Rocket Raccoon meets Cocaine Bear.” In the film directed by Brad Twigg, “When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific as an innocent raccoon eats it, transforming it into a nightmarish killing machine straight from the bowels of Hell.”
THE CURSE OF THE NECKLACE – OCTOBER 1 – VOD
Sisters Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone) and Violet McGraw (M3GAN) star in The Curse of the Necklace from Warner Bros. In the supernatural horror movie, “An antique necklace becomes a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy.” Henry Thomas also stars.
HOUSE OF SPOILS – OCTOBER 3 – PRIME VIDEO
This Blumhouse horror movie follows an ambitious chef (Ariana DeBose) as she opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at every turn. Barbie Ferreira co-stars in the film, written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy.
HOLD YOUR BREATH – OCTOBER 3 – HULU
Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Amiah Miller and Annaleigh Ashford lead the cast of this Hulu horror-thriller from directors Karrie Crouse and William Joines. “The film takes place amid the horrific dust storms of 1930s Oklahoma, watching as a woman (Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.”
SALEM’S LOT – OCTOBER 3 – MAX
The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot from director Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home) is finally seeing release after a lengthy delay. The plot sees an author return to his hometown, only to find it under the sway of a bloodthirsty vampire. The new take on the vampire classic gets a straight-to-streaming release on the road to Halloween.
THE FOREST HILLS – OCTOBER 4 – SELECT THEATERS
Scott Goldberg‘s The Forest Hills brings together Edward Furlong (Terminator 2), Dee Wallace (The Howling), and Shelley Duvall (The Shining), with the film notably marking the late Shelley Duvall’s final movie appearance – and first in two decades. Chiko Mendez plays a man tormented by nightmarish visions after enduring head trauma while hiking in the Catskills.
SPIN THE BOTTLE – OCTOBER 4 – VOD
A party game turns into a supernatural nightmare in Spin the Bottle, featuring Justin Long (Barbarian) as the local authority savvy to the paranormal. “When a group of friends plays spin the bottle in a house marked by a brutal massacre, they unknowingly unleash an evil spirit and start dying in terrifying ways.”
MONSTER SUMMER – OCTOBER 4 – IN THEATERS
The Black Phone star Mason Thames is gearing up for a Monster Summer, a spooky family adventure from director David Henrie (“Wizards of Waverly Place”). In the film, “When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.”
LITTLE BITES – OCTOBER 4 – THEATERS & VOD
Spider One (Allegoria, Bury the Bride) is back in the director’s chair with Little Bites, a horror movie being produced by mother-and-son duo Cher and Chaz Bono. Heather Langenkamp, Barbara Crampton, Bonnie Aarons (The Nun), and Krsy Fox (Allegoria, Bury the Bride) star. The film follows a young widow and mother who desperately tries to protect her daughter from the grips of a fiendish, flesh eating monster named Agyar.
V/H/S/BEYOND – OCTOBER 4 – SHUDDER
The V/H/S franchise returns to Shudder with the seventh installment of the series, this one drawing inspiration from sci-fi horror. Expect six blood curdling tapes of terror, with an exciting lineup of filmmakers that includes Justin Long, Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel and more.
THE PLATFORM 2 – OCTOBER 4 – NETFLIX
Director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s 2020 film The Platform introduced a vertical prison system, where inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Inmates on high floors eat better than those below, and one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough. A mysterious figure has managed to establish a new law in the sequel, and we can likely expect things to get ultra violent and extremely grim.
IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE – OCTOBER 4 – NETFLIX
The feature directorial debut of writer/director Greg Jardin aims to bring the fun this Halloween season with a twisty sci-fi romp. Chaos ensues at a lavish weekend pre-wedding party when an old friend arrives with a mysterious suitcase and proposes a unique party game. The gathering descends into an existential nightmare that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires, and grudges. Netflix paid a whopping $17 million to acquire It’s What’s Inside out of Sundance.
KRAZY HOUSE – OCTOBER 4 – VOD
Dutch directorial duo Steffan Haars and Flip Van Der Kuil’s English-language debut, Krazy House polarized Sundance audiences this year with its over-the-top lampooning of the ’90s sitcom era. Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) stars as a father who has to man up and save his ’90s sitcom family from Russian home invaders. Alicia Silverstone also stars.
FRANKIE FREAKO – OCTOBER 4 – IN THEATERS
Director Steven Kostanski (The Void, Psycho Goreman) is back with another genre rewind to the ’90s, this time to pay tribute to the puppet horror of yesteryear. After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line, led by a maniacal rock n’ roll goblin.
HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN – OCTOBER 8 – VOD
Ketchup Entertainment’s Hellboy: The Crooked Man hits the reboot button on the comic book franchise, with Jack Kesy (12 Strong) taking over the title role this time around. This Hellboy horror movie is set in the 1950s and costars Adeline Rudolph (Resident Evil) as a rookie agent of the BPRD who teams up with Hellboy to protect the residents of Appalachia from the creepy Crooked Man, who is collecting souls for the devil.
CADDO LAKE – OCTOBER 10 – MAX
M. Night Shyamalan is the producer for upcoming thriller Caddo Lake, formerly titled The Vanishings At Caddo Lake. In the film from directors Celine Held & Logan George (Topside), when an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.
MR. CROCKET – OCTOBER 11 – HULU
Director Brandon Espy’s feature debut is based on his popular short featured in Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween series. It stars Elvis Nolasco as a diabolical children’s TV show host and Jerrika Hinton as a mother who will stop at nothing to protect her son. Expect nostalgic terror in Mr. Crocket, which looks to put a horror twist on classic childhood entertainment.
DADDY’S HEAD – OCTOBER 11 – SHUDDER
Director Benjamin Barfoot’s horror movie follows a boy and his young, recently widowed stepmother who find themselves in fear for their lives after they are visited by a strange and unexplainable creature – something that appears to mimic a horrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father. Based on the image above, the creature might prove to be one of the more unnerving designs to come along this Halloween season.
SE7EN CEMETERIES – OCTOBER 11 – VOD
The director of the Feast trilogy as well as Piranha 3DD, John Gulager is back with Se7en Cemeteries. Danny Trejo stars as a recent parolee who gets a Mexican witch to resurrect his old posse so that they can help him save a woman’s ranch from a ruthless drug lord.
TERRIFIER 3 – OCTOBER 11 – IN THEATERS
Only writer/director Damien Leone and Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) could get horror fans excited about Christmas in October. The horror icon is back in theaters just in time for Halloween, set to unleash another round of chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve. Returning cast includes Lauren LaVera (Sienna), Samantha Scaffidi (Victoria Heyes), Elliot Fullam (Jonathan Shaw) and AEW superstar Chris Jericho (Burke), with Daniel Roebuck set to debut as Santa Claus.
ALL YOU NEED IS BLOOD – OCTOBER 12 – KINO STUDIO APP
Grammy®-nominated music video director Cooper Roberts makes his feature directorial debut with horror-comedy All You Need Is Blood, exclusively debuting on the Kino Studio App before releasing across traditional VOD outlets. The film follows Bucky, a 16-year-old aspiring director. After a strange meteor crash lands in his backyard and turns his deadbeat father into a brain-eating zombie, Bucky and his friends seize the opportunity to create the ultimate horror flick, starring his undead dad. The cast includes Mena Suvari and Eddie Griffin.
SMILE 2 – OCTOBER 18 – IN THEATERS
Writer/Director Parker Finn’s contagious curse takes aim at a new victim in the upcoming big screen sequel. In Smile 2, “About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.”
RIPPY – OCTOBER 18 – VOD
The zombie kangaroo horror-comedy Rippy (formerly The Red) hops onto VOD in time for Halloween. A feature expansion of Ryan Coonan’s 2014 smash festival short film Waterborne, the creature feature stars Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens). “A young sheriff finds her mettle tested to the limit when locals start getting ripped to shreds.”
WOMAN OF THE HOUR – OCTOBER 18 – NETFLIX
In 1978, a serial killer appeared on live TV as a bachelor on The Dating Game. Director (and star) Anna Kendrick tells the tale in Woman of the Hour. Kendrick stars in her directorial debut, playing an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles whose life intersects with a serial killer in the midst of a yearslong murder spree.
CARVED – OCTOBER 21 – HULU
Carved is based on the 2018 short of the same name, written and directed by Justin Harding for Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween. It follows a heartbroken teenage playwright, her younger brother, and a group of survivors who become trapped in a historical reenactment village on Halloween night and must band together to survive a relentless attack by a sentient and vengeful pumpkin.
GHOST GAME – OCTOBER 22 – VOD
From Epic Pictures’ horror label DREAD and director Jill Gevargizian (The Stylist) comes Ghost Game, which will have a limited theatrical run beginning October 18 before hitting VOD on October 22. In the indie horror film, “After discovering his girlfriend Laura’s involvement in an internet challenge to secretly live alongside unsuspecting residents, Vin persuades her to take him on her next adventure. They target Halton House, a notoriously haunted manor recently purchased by a new family.”
FAMILY PACK – OCTOBER 23 – NETFLIX
In the board game The Werewolves of Millers Hollow, paranoia and mistrust ensue as players seek to uncover the hidden identity of a werewolf in their midst. Coming to Netflix on the road to Halloween, the French comedy feature Family Pack adapts the horror board game. “After discovering a mysterious card game, a family is thrust back in time to a medieval village where they must fend off dangerous werewolves each night.” Jean Reno stars.
AZRAEL – OCTOBER 25 – SHUDDER
After being released in theaters last month, the action-horror movie Azrael starring Samara Weaving comes home to Shudder for Halloween. The film was directed by E.L. Katz (Channel Zero, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Cheap Thrills) from an original script by Simon Barrett (The Guest, You’re Next, Godzilla x Kong). “In a world in which no one speaks, a devout female-led community hunts down a young woman (Weaving) who has escaped her imprisonment.”
YOUR MONSTER – OCTOBER 25 – IN THEATERS
Melissa Barrera (Abigail, Scream VI) stars as soft-spoken actress Laura Franco, who finds her voice again when she meets a gruff but charming monster living in her closet. Caroline Lindy’s feature debut gives a comedic, musical spin on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast.
DON’T MOVE – OCTOBER 25 – NETFLIX
Up next from producer Sam Raimi‘s Raimi Productions and Hammerstone Studios (Barbarian) is Don’t Move. Adam Schindler and Brian Netto (Quibi’s series “50 States of Fright”) directed the film, wherein a grieving woman hoping to find solace deep in an isolated forest encounters a stranger who injects her with a paralytic agent. As the agent gradually takes over her body, she must run, hide, and fight for her life before her entire nervous system shuts down.
TIME CUT – OCTOBER 30 – NETFLIX
The writer and director of slasher-comedy Freaky reunite for Netflix’s time-traveling slasher movie Time Cut, which has been described as “Back to the Future meets Scream.” In the upcoming slasher, “A teenage girl travels back to the early 2000s to stop a vicious killer from murdering her sister.”
Bloody Disgusting’s Halloween Movie Guide is presented by Apartment 7A starring Julia Garner. Add the new psychological thriller to your Halloween watch list.
