What's new on Netflix in October 2024 (and what's leaving)

Key Takeaways

Halloween followers can get pleasure from iconic horror movies together with darkish sequence like Hellbound.
Ali Wong, Rachel Bloom, Tom Papa, and Hasan Minhaj spotlight an enormous month for stand-up comedy.
Love takes totally different varieties as Anna Kendrick crosses paths with a killer and Laura Dern meets Liam Hemworth.

It is all the time a little bit of enjoyable to see the content material calendar that awaits within the month to return. As September ends, October 1st will convey with it a bunch of recent titles as streaming services refill their libraries. There isn’t any scarcity of scary tales to observe on Netflix and lots of different streaming providers this October as it is the season for issues that hold you up at evening.

Whereas there are some worthy horror additions, together with older movies like Scream and Psycho, it appears that evidently comedy and romance, although not essentially collectively, are topping the record of recent content material. There are a slew of Netflix stand-up specials, with the likes of Ali Wong, Rachel Bloom, Tom Papa, and Hasan Minhaj taking to the stage, in addition to some very totally different love tales.

This is every part coming to Netflix in October, together with a couple of titles value testing.

Lady of the Hour

When an aspiring actress met a murderous monster

Based mostly on a real story, Lady of the Hour follows Anna Kendrick’s Cheryl Bradshaw, a Seventies actress who finds herself on The Courting Recreation with serial killer Robert Alcala. The primary acquired typically optimistic opinions when it debuted on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, praised for the way it creates an engrossing and uncomfortable based mostly on an opportunity encounter. Kendrick not solely stars, however is making her directorial debut as properly.

Lonely Planet

A Laura Dern meet-cute in Morocco

There may be a pair yellow flags across the synopsis of this romantic drama, which entails a mysterious younger man and a single writer assembly in Morrocco, however it’s exhausting to argue with one thing that Laura Dern has chosen to star in. That, together with the truth that she will get paired up with a horny, a lot youthful beau in Liam Hemsworth, make this value a watch, and can certainly elevate the story above fundamental romance tropes. I am nervous about the entire “go uncover your self someplace in Africa” thread that pops up in quite a lot of films about prosperous white ladies, however I am trusting Dern on this one.

Hellbound Season 2

Thrilling Ok-Drama returns with new threats and darkish fates

For those who’ve been using the wave of thrilling Korean reveals making their solution to Netflix, amongst different streaming providers, then you definately most likely are conversant in the darkish, intense horror thriller Hellbound. If not, you might have a little bit of time to atone for Season 1 earlier than a brand new set of episodes drops nearer to the of the month. This genre-bending sequence entails righteous monsters, maniacal cultists, and plagued detectives, and the primary season opens with a reasonably wild sequence that units the stage for a fascinating story to return. It is a good way to benefit from the spooky season.