October Horror Movie Preview: A Rundown of All The Movies We Can Expect for Spooky Season

Arrow within the Head’s October Horror Film Preview appears to be like forward to releases like The Exorcist: Believer, Completely Killer, and extra

The spookiest month of the yr has official begun! This yr, October has a Friday the thirteenth so as to add to the standard Halloween Horror Fest, making this an additional particular month for horror followers. Positive sufficient, the month is jam-packed with a great deal of horror motion pictures that can be popping out theatrical and on streaming. With Noticed X and The Nun in theaters now, right here’s our definitive October Horror Film Preview, filled with spooky motion pictures you possibly can take a look at all month lengthy!

TOTALLY KILLER – Streaming, October 6

Coming to the Prime Video streaming service is director Nahnatchka Khan’s time journey slasher Completely Killer, which stars Kiernan Shipka as a modern-day heroine who travels again in time to 1987 so she and a teenage model of her mother (performed by Olivia Holt) can take down a masked maniac referred to as the Candy Sixteen Killer. Time journey + slashing + ’80s setting = excessive hopes for this one.

PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES – Streaming, October 6

Directed by Lindsey Anderson Beer from a screenplay she wrote with Jeff Buhler (who was additionally a author on the 2019 model of Pet Sematary), this prequel will take viewers again to 1969 so we are able to watch a younger model of the character Jud Crandall (performed right here by Jackson White) uncover sinister secrets and techniques and confront darkish household historical past. White’s co-stars embrace Henry Thomas, Samantha Mathis, David Duchovny, and the legendary Pam Grier. Pet Sematary: Bloodlines can be streaming on the Paramount+ service.

V/H/S/85 – Streaming, October 6

The anthology franchise continues with V/H/S/85, which can be launched via the Shudder streaming service, similar to the final two entries (V/H/S/94 and V/H/S/99). The administrators bringing us discovered footage horror this time round are David Bruckner (Hellraiser 2022), Scott Derrickson (The Black Telephone), Gigi Saul Guerrero (Bingo Hell), Natasha Kermani (Fortunate), and Mike P. Nelson (the Incorrect Flip reboot). V/H/S/85 is the sixth V/H/S film, however when you issue within the spin-offs SiREN (which was based mostly on a section from the primary film) and Children vs. Aliens (based mostly on a section from the second V/H/S), it’s the eighth installment within the total franchise. Or what one would possibly name the “V/H/S Cinematic Universe”.

THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER – Theatrical, October 6

Common and Peacock forked over an quantity someplace within the vary of $400 million to amass the rights to distribute a brand new trilogy of The Exorcist sequels from Blumhouse Productions, Morgan Creek Leisure, and director David Gordon Inexperienced (who beforehand directed a trilogy of Halloween sequels). In October, we’ll discover out if that was a clever funding. Certainly. the movie was imagined to open on Friday the thirteenth, solely to maneuver on the eleventh hour when it was introduced Taylor Swift’s live performance movie can be opening the identical day. The Exorcist: Believer stars Leslie Odom Jr. as a person who seeks the assistance of unique The Exorcist character Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn reprises the position) when his daughter and her buddy are possessed.

DEAR DAVID – Theaters, VOD, and Digital, October 13

Battling The Exorcist: Believer for Friday the thirteenth field workplace can be Pricey David, based mostly on a ghost story that went viral when BuzzFeed author Adam Ellis wrote it out on Twitter in 2017. Augustus Prew performs Ellis, who turns into haunted by the ghost of a useless youngster named David. The movie is directed by John McPhail, who beforehand introduced us the superior, Christmas-set zombie outbreak musical Anna and the Apocalypse.

DARK HARVEST – One Day Theatrical on October eleventh, Digital on October 13

This Friday the thirteenth launch sees the return of director David Slade (Laborious Sweet, 30 Days of Night time) to the massive display horror recreation, being an adaptation of the novel by Norman Partridge. Right here’s the synopsis: “In a cursed city, the annual harvest turns into a brutal battle for survival. On Halloween 1963, Sawtooth Jack, a terrifying legend, rises from the cornfields, threatening the city’s youngsters. Teams of boys unite to defeat the murderous scarecrow earlier than midnight. Richie, a rebellious outcast, joins the run, motivated by his brother’s earlier victory. Because the hunt progresses, Richie makes a stunning discovery and faces a pivotal alternative to interrupt the relentless cycle.”

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S – Theatrical and Streaming, October 27

An extended-awaited characteristic adaptation of the favored online game franchise, 5 Nights at Freddy’s can be streaming on the Peacock service the identical day it reaches theatres. Directed by Emma Tammi, the movie stars Josh Hutcherson and Matthew Lillard within the story of a troubled safety guard who finds himself battling maniacal animatronic creatures in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a darker model of Chuck E. Cheese.

SUITABLE FLESH – Theaters and All over the place You Hire Motion pictures, October 27

Brian Yuzna, Barbara Crampton, and Dennis Paoli labored with the late Stuart Gordon on among the hottest H.P. Lovecraft diversifications ever made. Now they’ve teamed up with director Joe Lynch on a brand new Lovecraft film that’s described as an “erotic body-swapping horror”. Appropriate Flesh stars Heather Graham as a psychiatrist whose obsession with serving to a affected person leads her into darkish occult hazard.

November Bonus: THANKSGIVING – Theatrical, November 17

Sixteen years after director Eli Roth contributed the fake slasher trailer Thanksgiving to the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino double characteristic Grindhouse, he’s lastly bringing us a characteristic enlargement of the idea. Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, and Gina Gershon are among the many solid members who can be in peril of a slasher who terrorizes a small Massachusetts city throughout the Thanksgiving festivities. Whereas this positively isn’t an October launch, it’s actually a film individuals can be buzzing about all month lengthy, as a contemporary horror film from Eli Roth is at all times an occasion.

So, what do you consider this Fall Horror Film Preview? What number of of those motion pictures will you be watching? Tell us by leaving a remark beneath.