Halloween is just around the corner, and Netflix has already geared up for this spooky time of the year with the best movie titles viewers can watch this October 2023. From new offerings to some of the most iconic horror movies that are coming the streamer’s way next month, here’s everything you must see.
Top 10 Horror Movies Coming to Netflix this October 2023
Netflix has several new titles coming next month in time for Halloween. These films are either Netflix originals or licensed to be released in the service. Netflix has a lot of hidden gems released this year under the horror genre, and for the complete list, you can check below:
1. Sister Death
This Netflix original horror movie is a sequel to the Spanish film Veronica. This film tells the story of a young novice who possesses supernatural powers named Narcisa. After the war in Spain, she goes to a school for girls, known as a former convent, to work as a teacher, but strange events soon happen as she’s about to unveil the secrets surrounding the place.
- Release Date: October 27, 2023
- Director: Paco Plaza
- Cast: Aria Bedmar, Almudena Amor, Maru Valdivielso, Luisa Merelas and Chelo Vivares
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Flashback
This horror short may only run for 16 minutes, but that’s enough to send the chills down the viewers’ spines. Everything begins when a home invasion lets a yoga teacher’s life flash before her eyes, and she must race through her past to save the man she loves.
- Release Date: October 20, 2023
- Director: Jed Shepherd
- Cast: Jemma Moore, Haly Bishop, Amar Chadha-Patel, Scoobius Pip and Zakiy Jogi
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The Conference
This Swedish slasher comedy movie features a team-building conference of municipal employees that turns into a nightmare when corruption accusations arise. But the horror doesn’t start there. With the coming of a mysterious figure who kills the participants, everything dramatically changes.
- Release Date: October 13, 2023
- Director: Patrick Eklund
- Cast: Katia Winter, Eva Melander, Lola Zackow, Adam Lundgren and Margarette Pettersson
4. El Conde
This Pablo Larrain black-and-white movie tells the story of Augusto Pinochet, an old vampire who wants to die once and for all after living in this world for 250 years. The film is said to be inspired by the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
- Added to Netflix: September 15, 2023
- Director: Pablo Larrain
- Cast: Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger and Stella Gonet
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Killer Book Club
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Directed by Carlos Alonso Ojea, this slasher movie sees a group of young people threatened by an anonymous writer who wants to create a bloody horror novel based on their deaths. Each chapter of the story sees one of them dead, and the killer is probably one of them.
- Added to Netflix: August 25, 2023
- Director: Carlos Alonso Ojea
- Cast: Veki Velilla, Alvaro Mel, Priscilla Delgado, Ivan Pellicer and Hamza Zaidi
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
Based on the manga of the same name by Haro Aso and Kotara Takata, this film introduces Akira and his life amid a zombie apocalypse. But instead of being afraid when the catastrophe begins, he celebrates as he has found a brand-new life away from his exploitative company and creates a bucket list he aims to complete before becoming a zombie.
- Added to Netflix: August 3, 2023
- Director: Yûsuke Ishida
- Cast: Eiji Akaso, Mai Shiraishi, Shuntarô Yanagi, Yui Ichikawa and Kazuki Kitamura
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Bird Box Barcelona
A spin-off sequel to the 2018 Netflix movie Bird Box, this post-apocalyptic horror thriller film features the need for survival of Sebastian and his daughter, Anna. However, as they form an alliance with other survivors, something sinister awaits them.
- Added to Netflix: July 14, 2023
- Director: David Pastor and Alex Pastor
- Cast: Mario Casas, Georgina Campbell, Diego Calva, Naila Schuberth and Alejandra Howard
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We Have a Ghost
This comedy, paranormal movie features David Harbour as you have never seen him before. Far different from his role in Stranger Things, the actor plays the ghost Ernest, who turns his new homeowner, Kevin, and his family into overnight social media sensations. But as the two investigate the ghost’s past, the CIA has started targeting them.
- Added to Netflix: February 24, 2023
- Director: Christopher Landon
- Cast: Jahi Di’Allo Winston, David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Erica Ash and Niles Fitch
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Run Rabbit Run
After becoming one of the most sought-after actresses of today, thanks to Succession, Sarah Snook is seen as Sarah, a fertility doctor, in this thriller movie. However, things turn badly as she has to analyze her daughter’s strange behavior, leaving her to face a ghost from the past.
- Added to Netflix: June 28, 2023
- Director: Daina Reid
- Cast: Sarah Snook, Lily LaTorre, Neil Melville, Katherine Slattery and Damon Herriman
10. Tin & Tina
After a tragic miscarriage, Lola and her husband, Adolfo, decided to adopt the brother and sister Tin and Tina. However, with their “ultra-catholic education,” the kids can manage to interpret the Holy Bible verbatim.
- Added to Netflix: May 26, 2023
- Director: Rubin Stein
- Cast: Milena Smit, Jaime Lorente, Carlos González Morollón, Anastasia Russo and Teresa Rabal
