But first: What’s new on Netflix?

What is new is It’s what’s inside: Greg Jardin’s sneaky 2024 Sundance hit, a horror-comedy (or “sci-fi thriller with jokes,” if you prefer) imagines a pre-wedding party gone horribly wrong. For another The pre-wedding party is gone different crooked, watch Bridesmaidsrecently landed on the service. In Paul Feig’s 2011 hit comedy, Kristen Wiig plays the role of a maid of honor at the head of a motley crew of handmaidens (including Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy) to a bride-to-be (Maya Rudolph). Don’t you say “yes” to that? Fall in love with Heart stopperif you haven’t already. Season 3 of Alice Oseman’s compelling romantic drama series will see Charlie and Nick’s relationship improve – and all the challenges that come with it.

If you only have one night…

Curl up with a story. Inside André Øvredal’s 2019 supernatural horror Scary stories to tell in the darkAdapted from the book series of the same name by Alvin Schwartz, an old book full of horror stories doesn’t just keep its readers awake at night. When a group of teenagers stumble upon the ancient tome in a mysterious, abandoned house on Halloween night, terrible things begin to happen around them that appear to be from the book.

If you have a whole day…

Get attached. A triple feature of true classics from the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock, will keep you on the edge of your seat. Start with the groundbreaking 1960s horror masterpiece Psychoin which Janet Leigh checks into the Bates Motel and meets its owner, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), before taking a nice hot shower. Follow him with the 1963s The birdsstarring Tippi Hedren as a socialite trying to survive a spate of violent bird attacks. And finish it off with the 1964s Marniewhich also stars Hedren (alongside Sean Connery), this time as a kleptomaniac on the run.

If you have all weekend…

Enter the Upside Down. It’s time to get weird, and Stranger Things can take you there. A cultural phenomenon of the last decade that serves up serious, old-school scares, the Duffer Brothers’ popular sci-fi/horror mystery drama is the ultimate October viewing. The first four seasons of the coming-of-age series follow a group of friends in the 1980s in fictional Hawkins, Indiana, whose lives are turned upside down by a mysterious, disturbing force – and the institutions that try to cover this up. Queue it up to set the mood for the month and run up the hill to the upcoming fifth season.

Don’t forget, you still have one last chance…

For a modern horror classic. David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 indie It follows imagines a supernatural force stalking a young woman (Maika Monroe) after a sexual encounter that makes her the creature’s new target. Next week the film goes where you can’t follow it.