Clayface, a Korean monster horror and an animated Tom and Jerry adventure open in theatres even as Netflix and other platforms stack up new seasons and a cooking drama.
The last full week of October is a crowded one, and it isn't just Indian theatres juggling Ramayana and Jailer 2. On the Hollywood and global streaming side, there's a genuine pile-up, horror and animation competing for screens while Netflix and other platforms drop a mixed bag of romance, thriller and reality-adjacent cooking drama.
In theatres this week
Clayface brings DC's body-horror villain to the big screen, following actor Matt Hagen after a brutal attack disfigures him and an experimental treatment turns him into a shape-shifting mass of living clay bent on revenge. It's the kind of comic-book property that doesn't usually get a standalone horror treatment, so expect the reaction to split along genre lines.
Hope, a South Korean production, goes somewhere stranger. It starts as a monster hunt in a remote coastal village called Hope Harbor and escalates into something closer to cosmic horror, with officers chasing a creature that turns out to be tied to a force bigger than anyone expected.
Families get Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass, which sends the cat and mouse pair through time via a museum and into a final showdown with new companions in tow. There's also a quieter awards-adjacent release built around Patricia Highsmith, in which a young man from a New York publisher travels to Switzerland to talk the famously prickly writer into one more Ripley book.
On streaming
Nobody Wants This season 3 is the headline OTT title this week, per Pinkvilla's rundown, picking up with Joanne and Noah moving in together while Joanne works through her conversion to Judaism, clashing and bonding with classmates and Rabbi Eden along the way. Sasha and Esther are back on the dating circuit post-split, and Morgan keeps climbing at work. If you've been following the show since season one, this is the domestic-stakes chapter.
Elsewhere, a Korean thriller series follows a former police officer who goes undercover disguised as a man to work as bodyguard and secretary to a wealthy chaebol heir, and an action-thriller sends former officer James Reece from Mozambique to Moscow to Langley chasing an international conspiracy. A German-set mystery drama picks up with the Klatt family just as life seems to be returning to normal, only for daughter Wanda to be found standing over a corpse.
Legend of the White Dragon has Erik Reed stepping out of hiding three years after a major battle to clear his name and protect his family, and The Table: K-Chef 2026 turns a restaurant crisis into a cooking competition, with Choi Song-yi teaming up with a mystery chef to try and save her late father's eatery.
It's a week with no single breakout the way a Clayface or Ramayana would dominate conversation on its own. But between the theatrical horror, the animated nostalgia play and Nobody Wants This picking up where its earlier run left off, there's enough here to fill a weekend twice over. Whether Clayface finds an audience beyond comic-book completists is the one worth watching.
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