The streamer's Halloween-season slate runs from black-and-white monster movies to the entire vampire franchise, with rom-coms and animated originals filling the gaps.
Netflix is treating October the way it always does, which is to say it's throwing everything at the wall and letting the algorithm sort it out. The headline move is a heavy horror push ahead of Halloween: old-school titles like "Dracula," "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," "Friday the 13th" and "Psycho" land on the platform alongside newer entries such as "Ouija," "The Strangers" and "Evil Dead Rise," according to Variety's monthly rundown of additions.
It's not a one-note month, though. For people who'd rather skip the jump scares, there's a comedy shelf stacked with "21 Jump Street" and "A Madea Family Funeral," and a weepie corner anchored by "Call Me By Your Name" and "East of Eden." Rom-com regulars "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Love Actually" are also joining, along with the family-friendly "Horton Hears A Who!" and the cheerleading favourite "Bring It On."
The bigger get, at least for anyone who came of age on team-Edward-versus-team-Jacob discourse, is that Netflix is bringing back the whole vampire saga in one go. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1" and "Part 2" are both arriving this month, which effectively means the entire five-film run is now sitting on the service together.
On the originals side, there's a mixed bag rolling out too. "Unicorn Academy: Secrets Revealed: Chapter 2" continues the animated kids' series, while two documentary-adjacent titles round things out: "Couldn't Agree Less with Allison & Isaac" and "Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story." There's also a nostalgia play in "SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of," which digs into the sketch-comedy show that predates a lot of what streaming comedy tries to do now.
None of this is a surprise, exactly. Netflix does this every October, loading its horror shelf and letting older catalogue titles do the heavy lifting while a handful of originals trickle out around them. What's notable this time is the sheer range at the top end: a 1931 monster movie and a 2022 slasher sequel sitting in the same list, a teen vampire franchise getting a full library reunion, and a Maria Bamford documentary landing in the same window as "Friday the 13th."
Variety's list, as usual, isn't the complete picture. Streamers tend to drip out the rest of a month's additions closer to the dates themselves, and Netflix has a habit of adding titles without much warning once the calendar flips. Whether the platform saves anything bigger for closer to October 31 remains to be seen, but for now, the horror aisle is stocked and the Cullens are back.
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