Like a candypacked Boo Bucket, the streamer has a little something for everyone this month. Every horror movie coming to Netflix in October 2025 (plus a chillin

Like a candy-packed Boo Bucket, the streamer has a little something for everyone this month.

Every horror movie coming to Netflix in October 2025 (plus a chilling new documentary)

Like a candy-packed Boo Bucket, the streamer has a little something for everyone this month.

By Randall Colburn

Randall Colburn

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'Tis the season for tingling spines and covered eyes.

Film lovers have no shortage of scary movies to stream this year. Netflix, for example, is beefing up its already-sizable horror library this month with an influx of new, old, and semi-forgotten frights for those looking to punish their eyeballs.

Below, we dig into all of the new horror movies on Netflix this October, sprinkling in a few horror-adjacent thrillers, documentaries, and kid-friendly classics along the way. If everyone's entitled to one good scare on Halloween, then variety is a good thing.

Read on for all the new horror movies streaming on Netflix this month.

Cobweb (2023)

Lizzy Caplan as Carol in 'Cobweb'.

Vlad Cioplea/Lionsgate

**Available to stream:** September 19

Okay, we're cheating a little bit here, as *Cobweb* technically hit the streamer late in September. We figured it was worth a shout, though, as Samuel Bodin's 2023 flick is filled with hair-raising surprises (and nifty turns from stars Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr).

Woody Norman leads the film as bullied grade-schooler Peter, the son of Caplan and Starr's freakishly overbearing parents. After he begins hearing knocks coming from the inside of his bedroom walls, he's forced to confront what's really happening in his house. What unfolds is essentially an R-rated *Goosebumps* story that's as gruesome as it is psychological.

The Book Club Murders (2024)

Brittany Underwood in 'The Book Club Murders'.

**Available to stream:** October 1

Not to be confused with* The Thursday Murder Club* (also streaming on Netflix), *The Book Club Murders* is a 2024 Lifetime thriller about a woman who joins a book club after a series of tragic events derail her life.

Soon, however, the club's lit lovers begin receiving creepy letters revealing their darkest secrets. As the title implies, the stakes increase significantly when bodies start to drop. Lifetime vet Brittany Underwood stars.**

Casper (1995)

**Available to stream:** October 1

Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year is *Casper*, Brad Silberling's sentimental riff on the kind-hearted comic-book specter. A post-*Addams Family* Christina Ricci starred as Kat Harvey, a 13-year-old who befriends Casper after losing her mother and moving into a haunted manor, which might just house hidden treasure.

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Upon its release, EW's critic appreciated the special effects, "which make the puffy, transparent ghosts seem tactile and ethereal at the same time, just like the ravenous green spook in *Ghostbusters.*" They decried the story, however, as a "fairy tale with the soul of a rerun." Anyone who grew up on this big-hearted ghost story, though, would tell you otherwise.**

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn in 'Death Becomes Her'.

Universal Pictures/Getty

**Available to stream:** October 1

Released in 1992, the satirical horror-comedy* Death Becomes Her* made bank at the box office despite lackluster reviews. Robert Zemeckis' comically gruesome look at female beauty standards finds Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn consuming a magic potion that promises eternal life — with a little (nay, a *lot*) of maintenance.

Like many of Zemeckis' films of the era, *Death Becomes Her* continues to permeate culture decades later, spawning an acclaimed Broadway musical while being celebrated by 21st-century superstars like Beyonce, Jenna Ortega, and Sabrina Carpenter.

Dracula (1979)

Frank Langella in 'Dracula'.

Universal Pictures/The Mirisch Corporation/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty

**Available to stream:** October 1

With last year's *Nosferatu* still haunting our dreams, you might be itching for more takes on pop culture's favorite bloodsucker. Joining Francis Ford Coppola's sumptuous *Bram Stoker's Dracula* (1992) is John Badham's *Dracula*, a decidedly romantic riff on the Transylvanian vampire's macabre tale.

Legendary thespians Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence round out the cast as Van Helsing and Dr. Seward, while the Oscar-nominated Frank Langella (and his fuzzy chest) titillates as the titular count.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

Freddie Prinze Jr and Jennifer Love Hewitt in 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'.

Columbia Pictures/Getty

**Available to stream:** October 1

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's confused legacy sequel to 1997's *I Know What You Did Last Summer *ended with a nod to the franchise's second entry, *I Still Know What You Did Last Summer*.

Released just a year after the original, the follow-up found Brandy Norwood and Mekhi Phifer joining Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. for a trip to the Bahamas, where they (and a dreadlocked Jack Black) stare down the sharp end of the franchise's hook-wielding slasher.

If you're squeamish, consider it a gateway: EW's critic at the time decried how it has "none of the outrageously gross, limb-splitting carnage" of the slashers that came before it. For some, that may be a feature, not a bug.**

Red Dragon (2002)

Anthony Hopkins in 'Red Dragon'.

Glen WIlson/Universal Studios

**Available to stream:** October 1

The third film to feature Anthony Hopkins as cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, Brett Ratner's *Red Dragon *is actually a prequel to *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991) and *Hannibal* (2001). Here, Hannibal assists FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) as he hunts down a killer named Francis Dolarhyde.

Despite Hopkins' chilling turn, *Red Dragon* pales in comparison to Michael Mann's sublime *Manhunter* (1986), which adapts the same story. Still, it's worth a watch, if only for the incredible supporting cast, which includes Harvey Keitel, Mary-Louise Parker, Bill Duke, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman at the height of his powers.**

Sinister 2 (2015)

Olivia Rainey, Jaden Klein, Laila Haley, Caden Marshall Fritz, and Lucas Jade Zumann in 'Sinister 2'.

**Available to stream:** October 1

Scott Derrickson's 2012 hit *Sinister* is one of the more upsetting mainstream horror movies of the past few decades, what with its surplus of Super 8-shot snuff films. The sequel isn't as good, but if that scratchy footage — or the demon Bughuul — freaked you out on the first round, there's plenty more on display here.

There's also a rare leading turn from James Ransone, one of the more compelling "that guy" actors in recent memory.**

Slender Man (2018)

**Available to stream:** October 1

As parents panicked in the wake of the 2014 Slender Man stabbings, Hollywood capitalized on that fear with 2018's *Slender Man*.

Joey King and Jaz Sinclair lead the supernatural spooker, which wants you to find the idea of very tall, very slender specter with no face to be scary. If you do, you'll have fun. If you don't, well, there are a lot of other movies on this list.

Few of them, however, are as unsettling as *Beware the Slenderman*, a documentary about the real-life Slender Man stabbings.**

The Strangers (2008)

'The Strangers'.

Glenn Watson/Rogue/Universal

**Available to stream:** October 1

*The Strangers* is having a moment, what with Lionsgate turning Bryan Bertino's spare, brutal 2008 cult hit into a trilogy that nobody asked for. Take it from us: the original is all you need.

The set-up is simple: Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman play a married couple who retreat to a vacation home only to be terrorized by a trio of masked intruders. To say more would be a disservice to the nerve-shredding terror that follows.

Stephen King himself was so affected by the movie that it prompted him to pen a column for EW musing on what, exactly, makes a movie scary. High praise, indeed.**

When a Stranger Calls (2006)

Camilla Belle in 'When a Stranger Calls'.

Suzanne Tenner/Screen Gems

**Available to stream:** October 1

Most folks remember the 1979 babysitter-in-peril classic *When a Stranger Calls* for its first 20 or so minutes, which are often regarded as among the scariest horror movie intros (and a major inspiration for Wes Craven's opening scene in *Scream*).

Considering that the film loses a lot of steam after those 20 minutes, it was both understandable and hubristic for director Simon West and writer Jake Wade Wall to try and stretch them into a full-length feature for their 2006 remake. Did the gamble pay off? You be the judge.**

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

'Night of the Living Dead'.

Pictorial Parade/Getty

**Available to stream:** October 4

What else is there to say about George A. Romero's *Night of the Living Dead, *which remains one of the most influential and enduring horror movies of all time?

EW's critic put it well back in 2008: "Forty years after the revolution in low-budget nightmare splatter that was *Night of the Living Dead*, it's worth remembering that that film's garish power, apart from the sheer, outrageous, *who will be the next to get chomped?* insanity of its violence, arose out of the scary elusiveness of what it said about America."

It continues, "There was no exact correlation between the attack of flesh-hungry zombies — and the attack on them ("Kill the brain and you kill the ghoul!") — and the horrors of Vietnam or the general late-'60s breakdown. The metaphor was there, but it was ominously free-floating."**

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)

Taissa Farmiga in 'We Have Always Lived in The Castle'.

Brainstorm Media

**Available to stream:** October 6

Adapted from Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel of the same name, *We Have Always Lived in the Castle *tells the story of sisters living in isolation on an estate in the years following a family tragedy.

Taissa Farmiga, now a genre veteran thanks to her roles in *The Nun* franchise and *American Horror Story, *stars as Merricat Blackwood, a character we've previously named as one of the most evil children in literature.**

The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025)

Keira Knightley in 'The Woman in Cabin 10'.

Parisa Taghizadeh/Netflix

**Available to stream:** October 10

*The Woman in Cabin 10* may be more of a thriller than a straight-up horror flick, but we named the book on which it's based as a "seriously scary summer read" upon its 2016 release, so we think it's negligible.

Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley leads the Netflix original as Lo, a journalist covering the maiden voyage of an opulent cruise ship. Excitement curdles into fear, however, after she witnesses a passenger being thrown overboard.

Or did she? In the aftermath, she's told that all the guests and crew members are accounted for. You can imagine where things go from there.**

My Father, the BTK Killer (2025)

Kerri Rawson in 'My Father, the BTK Killer'.

**Available to stream:** October 10

Dennis Rader, a.k.a. the BTK Killer, was a prolific serial killer who murdered at least 10 people in Kansas between 1974 and 1991, though he wasn't arrested until 2005. Since then, his daughter, Kerri Rawson, has publicly discussed having to reconcile the truth about her father, a churchgoer and former Cub Scout leader, with the reality of his vicious crimes.

Per Netflix, the documentary "weaves together interviews with the investigators who helped uncover BTK's identity and features chilling archival photos and sketches, and interrogation footage of Rader himself." It also offers Rawson's "personal reflections on her relationship with her father both before and since his arrest and conviction."**

Don't Say a Word (2001)

Brittany Murphy in 'Don't Say a Word'.

20th Century Fox

**Available to stream:** October 18

You'd be forgiven for missing *Don't Say a Word* in theaters, as it was released just weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The thriller — more *horrific* than straight-up scary — is worth checking out, if only for the late Brittany Murphy's nervy turn as a razor-wielding woman confined to a sanatorium.**

The Elixir (2025)

**Available to stream:** October 23

*The Elixir* comes from Indonesian filmmaker Kimo Stamboel, a horror veteran with a penchant for gross-out gore. The titular elixir, per a synopsis, "unleashes the undead in a village," forcing an estranged family to "unite and fight to survive as their hometown collapses."**

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