Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime and Disney+ in October

Netflix / Youtube / Screengrab

Netflix / Youtube / Screengrab

Netflix has great comedy in store this October with Dave Chappelle‘s new standup special, The Closer. Watch a newly-released teaser for the show above.

Of course, when it comes to new streaming entertainment available in October, naturally many might think of horror first, what with those eerie Halloween stores mysteriously popping up in every strip mall and jack-o-lanterns grinning from every doorstep. Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon, and Disney+ all have viewers covered there. 

Netflix / Youtube / Screengrab

For example, Netflix has chillers based on true events like David Fincher’s masterful 2007 serial killer drama Zodiac as well a new season of Locke & Key, a horror series based on comics by Stephen King‘s equally talented horrormeister son Joe Hill.

HBO Max is delivering a gritty return to Tony Soprano’s world (its own kind of horror for anyone on Tony’s bad side) with the premiere of The Many Saints of Newark on October 1. Set in the tumultuous late 1960s, the movie is a prequel that tracks the early rise of the Sopranos mob boss (played by the late James Gandolfini’s lookalike son Michael Gandolfini) that starts when he gets into “business” with his uncle Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola).  

Over on Hulu, you can choose from sci-fi with just about every Star Trek movie ever to the comedy-horror of Teen Wolf—or the 2020 B-movie thriller with the ridiculous, over-the-top title, Cheer Camp Killer, if that’s more your speed. 

Amazon Prime is bringing new horror with selections like The Manoran Amazon original movie about an old folks’ home with creepy secrets—and giving us more Daniel Craig in the form of his surprisingly intense 2011 sci-fi thriller Cowboys and Aliens

Meanwhile, Disney+ is keeping things mostly light this October with selections for kids (or possibly very high adults) like The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular! and the surely bone-chilling Muppets Haunted Mansion. We’re hoping that one involves a zombie Fozzie Bear.

As for Dave Chappelle—he’s only scary if you’re afraid of the raw, unvarnished truth. As he says in the trailer, “Comedians have a responsibility to speak recklessly. Sometimes the funniest thing to say is mean. I’m not saying it to be mean, I’m saying it to be funny.” Chappelle’s The Closer drops on Netflix October 5. 

Make your fright night party plans with the selections listed below. 

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Amazon Prime 

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