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Yes, it's still this time of year, when the weather is getting cooler, the trees are losing their leaves and the internet is full of things like "Pumpkin Spice: too much good stuff?" It's also the Halloween season. Pay special attention to all the horror-themed television series and movies that arrive on the main streaming services in October. Here are the ones we find most interesting, followed by a tour of all the new best and most promising titles, whatever their genre. (Streaming services sometimes change schedules without notice.)
"Carrie" begins and ends with an unexpected stream of blood. We first see Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) getting her first period under a high school shower. Her unregulated mother (Piper Laurie), a fanatic of religions, did not prepare her for this change of life. Carrie panics. Her comrades mock and mock – unaware that puberty has also unleashed Carrie's latent telekinesis abilities. Soon, however, everyone – especially his two most heartless antagonists (John Travolta and Karen Allen) – will learn it in the bloodiest possible way. Prom has never been quite the same.
Begins the streaming: October 1st
The first feature film by Tarsem Singh is a feast of hyper-surreal images saturated in color, drawing us into the mind of a sadistic serial killer (Vincent D'Onofrio, practically unrecognizable). Jennifer Lopez plays a psychologist who bravely enters this horrible dream landscape in order to save the last victim of the madman. The film is disturbing and beautiful, drawing much of its power from strange paintings reminiscent of the breathtaking works of artists such as Damien Hirst, H.R. Giger, Salvador Dalí and the Quay brothers. A really wild ride.
Begins the streaming: October 1st
A Hollywood remake of the 2008 Swedish movie "Let the Right One In" is also a strange teenage romance in which one of the teens is undead. American screenwriter and director Matt Reeves kept most of the story (but transferred it from Stockholm to New Mexico) and drew a complex chemistry between his two protagonists, Chloe Grace Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The film's greatest performance, however, is that of the great Richard Jenkins, embodying the tormented human servant of Moretz's lone vampire daughter and owning the film every time he is on screen.
Begins the streaming: October 1st
One of the first vampire movies to present his teenage leeches and vampirism to a metaphor of male camaraderie, "The Lost Boys" is by turns sexy, scary and very funny, dispatching his dead -vivants in a fun way. (Why did not anyone think of a holy water gun before?) And vampires also have new ways to kill – Kiefer Sutherland's character sticks his teeth into the bald head of the man as if it were an apple . It's a juicy genre redesigned, with two Coreys (Haim and Feldman) for the price of one.
Begins the streaming: October 1st
Bradley Cooper was a promising type of comedy when he appeared in this appalling shocking novel based on Clive Barker's novel – the best adaptation of Barker's work since "Hellraiser". Cooper plays the role of Leon, a photographer descending into the subway looking for difficult topics and finds himself in a world of supernatural and bloody horror. Cooper is good, but the dark soul of the movie is Vinnie Jones, the scowl who rides the train of meat with his menacing bag longer than anyone could have believed.
Begins the streaming: October 1st
Alejandro Amenabár's spooky film "The Others" is more than a standard haunted house movie. In an isolated mansion of the 1940s, the film stars Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart, who mysteriously lost all her domestic staff. When three new servants arrive, she will insist on the importance of protecting her two children, who suffer from a form of photosensitivity that can put their lives at risk – if they are exposed to the sun they die. Meanwhile, the doors open on their own, a piano starts to play by itself and the tension rises deliciously.
Begins the streaming: October 1st
It is gloriously a camp entertainment, with a nice distribution that somehow keeps an impassive face. There is a war in paradise. The Angel Gabriel (Christopher Walken) – not a good guy here – comes to earth in search of the soul of an evil man, prophesied as the ultimate weapon in this battle. Finally, the evil Lucifer (Viggo Mortensen) appears … and proves to be the best hope of humanity. Who knew?
Begins the streaming: October 1st
Probably the most horrible dysfunctional family film of all time, Stanley Kubrick's Stanley King film of 1977, leaves Jack Nicholson a glimmer of hope and a lot of room for maneuver to make room for Shelley Duvall. Their 6-year-old child, played by Danny Lloyd, does many tricks in his tricycle in the frightening corridors of the Overlook Hotel, avoiding ghostly twins and stopping only to gaze at the mysterious Room 237. Scatman Crothers warms up the chilly film for a while. but his stay at the hotel is limited. Redrum!
Begins the streaming: October 1st
This highly anticipated horror anthem of Jason Blum will feature a new standalone episode each month, with stories centered on various parties. The first, "The Body", arrives just in time for Halloween. In developing a previous short film, director Paul Davis delivers a clever and grotesque work. A cynically successful man (Tom Bateman) tries to transport a dead body recently killed in a definitive resting place, but he gets arrested by Halloween party goers praising him for his murderous "suit". Rebecca Rittenhouse plays a very horny woman by murder and wants to be her lover – or maybe her protégé.
Premiere Series: October 5
Rather than showing us only the usual group of characters in a spooky setting, this adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel uses her titular haunted house as a starting point for exploring grief and loss. The obsession occurred long ago when the five Crain brothers and sisters were children, and a frenzied escape put an end to the ordeal. Where did he go? The buried psychic scars of this summer have shaped the identity of these children. Now they are adults and they have to deal with the literal and figurative ghosts of their past.
Season 1 Begins the streaming: October 12
Also arriving this month:
New on Netflix: "Black Dynamite" (October 1), "Blade" (October 1), "The Devil & # 39; s Advocate" (October 1), "Empire Records" (October 1), "Gotham" Season 4 ( October 1) "The Green Mile" (October 1), "Mystic River" (October 1), "The NeverEnding Story" (October 1), "Once upon a time in America" (October 1), "Peewee's Big Adventure" (October 1), "V for Vendetta" (October 1), "The Life of Brian de Monty Python" (Oct. 2), "July 22" (Oct. 10) .), "Apostle" (1 12), "Daredevil" Season 3 (Oct. 19), "Make a Murderer Part 2" (Oct. 19), "Bodyguard" Season 1 (Oct. 24) And "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina "Season 1 (Oct. 26).
New on Amazon Prime Video: "Bitter Moon" (October 1), "Election" (October 1), "The eyes of Laura Mars" (October 1), "Flatliners" (October 1), "Frankie and Johnny" (October 1 st) ). ), "Full Metal Jacket" (October 1 st), "Gods and Monsters" (October 1 st), "The Illusionist" (October 1 st), "Kicking and Screaming" (October 1 st), "Legend" (1 st October), 1), "Mulholland Drive" (October 1), "April Pieces" (October 1), "The Presidio" (October 1), "Pushing Daisies" Seasons 1 and 2 (October 1), " Raging Bull "(1 October)," RoboCop "(1 October)," Spaced "Seasons 1-2 (1 October)," Starship Troopers "(1 October)," The thickness "1 to 1 4 (October 1), "Trees Lounge" (October 1), "The Man with the High Castle" Season 3 (Oct. 5), "Mr. Robot "Season 3 (Oct. 11)," Monster's Ball "(Oct. 11)," The Romanoffs "Season 1 (Oct. 12)," Donnie Darko "(Oct. 17), and" You're No " I was never really there "(October 26).
New in Hulu: "American Psycho" (October 1st), "Bitter Moon" (October 1st), "The Blair Witch Project" (October 1st), "Cinderella Man" (October 1st), "Closer" (October 1st) "Election" (October 1st), "Frankie and Johnny" (October 1st), "Frida" (October 1st), "Galaxy Quest" (October 1st), "Gods and Monsters" (October 1st), "Guess who's coming for dinner" (October 1st), "The House of Spirits" (October 1st), "Insomnia" (October 1st), "Kicking and screaming" (October 1st), "Mulholland Drive" (October 1st) ), "Music and lyrics" (October 1), "The night we never met" (October 1), "April Pieces" (October 1), "Peloton" (October 1) , "The President" (October 1 st), "Raging Bull" (October 1 st), "RoboCop" (October 1 st), "Rust and Bone" (October 1 st), "Starship Troopers" (October 1 st) , "Trees Lounge" (October 1), "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (Oct. 2) and "Next Stop Wonderland" (Oct. 15).
New on HBO: "The Cooler" (October 1), "The Descent" (October 1), "The Human Stain" (October 1), "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (October 1), "A Perfect Getaway" (1 1), "Queen of the World" (October 1), "Romeo Must Die" (October 1), "Taken" (October 1), "The Thin Red Line" (October 1), "Underworld" (October 1), October 1), "Flight of the Conchords: Living in London" (Oct. 6), "My dinner with Hervé" (Oct. 20) and "The Post" (Oct. 27).
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