YES, WE ARE still more than one month away from Halloween, but spooky season has already well and truly commenced. If you don’t feel like the vibes are right yet, we know just the thing to get you in the mood – an array of Halloween fodder that you can stream over the next month. Or, if you’re simply not a Halloween type of guy, there are still plenty of reasons to settle down for a night in, cosied up on your couch with snacks nearby and a plethora of top-notch streaming content to get through, because as we’ve always argued so vehemently, there’s never really a bad time to do so.
As the weather is getting hotter, so too is the content coming to streaming services this October. The much-derided Australian reboot of The Office is about to premiere on Amazon Prime, so expect some discourse. Territory will soon announce itself as Australia’s answer to Yellowstone over on Netflix. Budding auteur Dylan River’s latest series Thou Shalt Not Steal is heading to stan. And of course, every streaming platform is bolstering its arsenal of horror movies and Halloween classics to prepare for the 31st.
The vast swaths of new content don’t make it easy for you though. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime are so packed with must-watch films and shows that it can be difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the backburner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice with subscriptions to multiple platforms.
Not to worry though, Men’s Health has you covered. To help you avoid being paralysed with indecision during a dreaded doomscroll, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms in October 2024.
What’s new on Netflix Australia, October 2024
October Netflix Highlight – Territory
Brace yourself, because Netflix is in for a massive month this October. Headlining the waves of new content heading to Netflix is Territory, which as far as we can tell is essentially an Australian version of Yellowstone. Set deep in the Australian outback, the world’s largest cattle farm is left without an obvious successor. A Succession-style dispute ensues, while powerful factions including miners, landowners, cowboys and gangsters prepare for a hostile takeover.
Also on Netflix in September, your hunger for Halloween vibes will be sated by both Lisa Frankenstein and Late night With The Devil, two of the buzziest horror films of the year. Basketball fans will find a bingeworthy new series in Starting 5, which follows five NBA superstars throughout the course of the 2023-24 season. The featured athletes include LeBron James, Anthony Edwards and Jayson Tatum. Finally, the first part of the fourth season of polarising drama series Outer Banks will premiere on October 10th.
What new series are coming to Netflix in October 2024?
October 1
- Making It in Marbella
October 2
- Love Is Blind, season 7
October 3
- Heartstopper, season 3
- Blue Box
October 5
- Ranma 1/2
October 9
- Starting 5
- Deceitful Love
- The Secret of the River
October 10
- Outer Banks, season 4, part 1
- Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
- The Life and Movies of Erşan Kuneri, season 2
- Love Is Blind, Habibi
October 13
- A Virtuous Business
October 15
- Comedy Revenge
October 17
- The Lincoln Lawyer, season 3
- Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance
October 18
- Happiness Is
October 23
- The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox
- Car Masters: Rust to Riches, season 6
October 24
- Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black
- Territory
October 25
- Simone Biles Rising, part 2
- Hellbound, season 2
- The Last Night at Tremore Beach
October 30
- Go Ahead, Brother
- The Law According to Lidia Poët, season 2
October 31
- The Diplomat, season 2
- Murder Mindfully
What new movies are coming to Netflix Australia in October 2024
October 3
- Trouble
October 4
- CTRL
- IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE
- The Platform 2
October 5
- The Fabelmans
October 8
- The Predator
October 9
- The Invitation
- Bullet Train
October 11
- In Her Place
- Lonely Planet
- Uprising
October 12
- Halloween II
October 15
- Spies in Disguise
October 16
- Justice
October 17
- Outside
- The Shadow Strays
October 18
- The Man Who Loved UFOs
- Woman of the Hour
- Late Night with the Devil
- Scream
October 23
- Family Pack
October 24
- The Color Purple
October 25
- Don’t Move
- Hijack ’93
October 26
- Scream VI
- Lisa Frankenstein
October 30
- Time Cut
What new documentaries are coming to Netflix Australia in October 2024?
October 2
- Chef’s Table: Noodles
- Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 5
October 7
- The Menendez Brothers
October 16
- Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas
- I AM A KILLER, season 5
- Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare
October 18
- The Turnaround
October 23
- This is the Zodiac Speaking
October 25
- The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
October 30
- Martha
- The Manhattan Alien Abduction
What’s new on Disney+ Australia, October 2024
October Disney+ Highlight – Last Days of the Space Age
Set in 1979 Western Australia, Last Days of the Space Age follows the residents of a small Aussie town that is brought to global attention when it hosts the Miss Universe Pageant while a power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness and a US space station crashes on its outskirts. Sounds fairly dramatic, doesn’t it? Well that’s nothing compared to the turmoil within the families of the town, who must endure amid the chaos of the waning years of the Cold War.
What new series are coming to Disney+ in October 2024?
October 2
- Last Days of the Space Age, premiere
- Me & Mickey, season 3
October 4
- Mickey’s Spooky Stories
- Incredible Dr Pol: The Grand Finale
October 5
- Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War, season 3
October 9
- La Máquina
- 9-1-1, season 7
- American Horror Story: Delicate
October 11
- Return to Las Sabinas
October 12
- Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born
October 16
- Nemisis
- World Eats Bread
October 18
- Rivals
October 23
- Children are Kings
- Selenkay, season 2
October 25
- This is Not Hollywood – Avetrana
October 30
- Scamanda
- Witches: Truth Behind the Trials
- Wizards Beyond Waverly Place
What new movies are coming to Disney+ in October 2024?
October 3
- Hold Your Breath
October 11
- Mr. Crocket
October 21
- Carved
What new documentaries are coming to Disney+ in October 2024?
October 11
- Expedition Amazon
October 18
- Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara
- The Devil’s Climb
October 25
- Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
What’s new on Stan, October 2024
October Stan Highlight – Thou Shalt Not Steal
Helmed by Australia’s own directorial rising star Dylan River, Thou Shalt Not Steal is a black comedy set in 1980s Central Australia. The Stan original series centres on a pair of young people – one a formerly incarcerated Aboriginal woman and the other an awkward teen – on the run from the law, a dodgy preacher and a sex worker whose taxi they stole as they search for the truth behind a mysterious family secret.
Elsewhere, you’ll find your Halloween fix on Stan. A number of horror classics are making their way to the streamer towards the end of October, from The Conjuring on the 22nd and Carrie on the 23rd to Child’s Play on the 25th.
What new series are coming to Stan in October 2024?
October 1
- Joan
- Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, season 2
October 2
- This is Going to Hurt
- Ben Gen 10
October 3
- Lucky Country
October 4
- Underground, seasons 1-2
October 13
- Hidden Assets, season 2
October 16
- The Diplomat
October 17
- Thou Shalt Not Steal
October 19
- New Leash On Life
October 23
- Surreal Estate
October 24
- Dead & Buried
October 27
- Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax
What new movies are coming to Stan in October 2024?
October 1
- Hitch
October 4
- Jumanji: The Next Level
October 5
- Burnt
- Scooby-Doo! And Krypto, Too!
October 6
- The Third War
October 7
- The Wedding Singer
- Heroic
October 9
- The Inner Cage
October 10
- Seven
- Dark Satellites
October 11
- It’s The Law
October 12
- The Matrix Resurrections
- Out In The Open
October 13
- Gayby Baby
- Scooby-Doo! Return To Zombie Island
October 14
- Radical
- I’m Not A Killer
October 15
- Charlie’s Angels
- Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
- Charlie’s Angels
October 18
- Bad Boys
- Bad Boys II
- Bad Boys For Life
October 19
- Scooby-Doo! The Sword And The Scoob
October 20
- The Uncovering
- Everything Must Go
October 21
- The Vice Of Hope
October 22
- The Conjuring
- The Conjuring 2
- Disco
October 23
- Carrie
October 24
- Of An Age
- The Amityville Horror
October 25
- Persona Non Grata
- Child’s Play
October 26
- Black Adam
- The Wiggles: The Sound of Halloween
- Quo Vadis, Aida?
- Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
October 27
- Stranger By the Lake
October 28
- Games People Play
- Ju-On 2 (The Grudge 2)
October 29
- A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
October 30
- The Equalizer 2
- The Inbetweeners
- Plane
October 31
- Poltergeist
- The Wild Thornberrys Movie
- Three Floors
What new documentaries are coming to Stan in October 2024?
October 6
- Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief
October 17
- Wagspiracy: Vardy vs Rooney
What’s new on Amazon Prime Video Australia, October 2024
October Amazon Prime Video Highlight – The Office Australia
The Australian reboot of The Office has already received scathing reviews online, but can we at least agree to give it a chance? At the end of the day, this is an Australian cast and crew getting their big chance and they deserve a shot, even if this is the 13th iteration of a series that has already had its time in the sun and the trailer’s jokes came off as far more cringeworthy than comedic. In this rehash of the typical The Office mould, a classically out of touch office manager – the first female character to fill the standard Michael Scott role in any iteration – is devastated to learn that her branch is being shut down in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Determined to keep her work family together as staff are ordered to work from home, Felicity Ward’s Hannah Howard goes to great lengths to promote staff bonding.
What new series are coming to Amazon Prime in October?
October 3
- Legend of Vox Machina, season 3
October 4
- The Tribe
October 9
- Death Note
October 10
- Citadel: Diana
October 16
- Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity
October 18
- The Office Australia
October 19
- The Devil’s Hour, season 2
October 25
- Like A Dragon: Yakuza
What new movies are coming to Amazon Prime in October?
October 1
- The Addams Family
- The Amityville Horror
- Challengers
- The Fighter
- Jumanji: The Next Level
- Legally Blonde
- The Mummy
- Sherlock Gnomes
October 3
- House of Spoils
October 4
- El Diario
October 6
- A Simple Favour
October 8
- Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
October 15
- Bad Boys For Life
- Wild Card
October 19
- Darkness of Man
October 20
- Immaculate
October 22
- Hot Summer Nights
- The Silent Hour
What’s new on Binge, October 2024
October Binge Highlight – What We Do In The Shadows, season 6
The biggest release coming to Binge in October is undoubtedly the sixth and final season of What We Do In The Shadows. The comedy series – which is the brainchild of Taika Waititi – has built a cult following over the years, and in its final season, vampires Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, Colin and Guillermo have a busy itinerary that includes joining the workforce, visiting New Hampshire, going to a human dinner party and conjuring a demon. The quintessential Halloween watch.
What new series are coming to Binge in October 2024?
October 1
- Lethal Weapon, seasons 1-3
- Imma Tataranni, season 2
- Southland, seasons 1-5
- Frontmen
- Mum, season 3
October 2
- The Real Housewives of NYC, season 15 premiere
- Emergency Helicopter Medics, season 3
- Cathedrals Of Culture
October 3
- Velma: This Halloween Needs To be More Special
- Ancient Apocalypse, season 2
October 4
- Forsaken Places, season 1
- The World Cook
October 7
- The Franchise, premiere
October 8
- Superman & Lois, season 4 premiere
- Inside Japan’s War
October 9
- When Missing Turns To Murder, season 2
October 10
- Teacup
- Sweetpea
October 11
- Police Code Zero: Officer Under Attack, season 2
- Almost Unsolved
October 14
- The Great Celebrity Bake Off, season 7 premiere
- The Railway Murders
October 15
- Legendary Heroes
October 16
- American Horror Stories, season 3B premiere
- The Speedboat Killer, The Killing Of Charlotte Brown
- Loading Docs, seasons 1-9
- I Am Not A Monster: The Lois Reiss Murders
October 17
- The Charles Bukowski Tapes
October 18
- Hysteria!
- Botched, season 6
- #Dead2me
October 22
- What We Do In The Shadows, season 6 premiere
October 25
- Sister Wives, season 12
October 28
- Somebody Somewhere, season 3 premiere
What new movies are coming to Binge in October 2024?
October 1
- U.S. Marshals
- Everybody’s Fine
- Carrie
- Frantic
October 3
- Salem’s Lot
October 5
- The Great Escaper
- Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
- Ordinary Angels
October 7
- Next Goal Wins
October 10
- Caddo Lake
October 12
- I.S.S.
October 20
- Immaculate
October 24
- The Color Purple
October 25
- You’ll Never Find Me
October 26
- Lisa Frankenstein
October 28
- Monkey Man
What new documentaries are coming to Binge in October 2024?
October 1
- Navalny
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Subject
- Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
- Legacy: Surfing Now and Then
- The Final Year
- Carmine Street Guitars
- The Boxer
- Weddings Parties Anything
- The Fire Within: A Requiem For Katia And Maurice Krafft
- The Painter And The Thief
- Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm
- Do I Sound Gay?
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
- The Murder Of Logan Mwangi
October 2
- Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters
- The Reason | Jump
- Mamil – Middle Aged Men In Lycra
- Zero Days
- Mau
- The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story Of Aaron Swartz
- Love The Beast
October 3
- The Mole Agent
- Matilda & Me
- Shut Up Little Man
- Brazen Hussies
- Mountain
- Bra Boys
- Kobi
- Some Kind Of Heaven
- The Brink
October 4
- Tall Poppy: A Skater’s Story
- Symphony On Skis
- Ride The Wave
- Nothing Lasts Forever
- Three Minutes – A Lengthening
- Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travel Of A Tribe Called Quest
- Watermark
October 7
- Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World
- Champs
- Picasso And Braque Go To The Movies
October 9
- Dinosaur 13
October 16
- Love, Marilyn
- The Green Prince
- The Battle Of The Sexes
- Pompeii: The Last Mysteries Revealed
October 29
- Stop Making Sense
What’s new on Apple TV+, October 2024
October Apple TV+ Highlight – Shrinking, season 2
In Shrinking, Jason Segel plays a therapist grappling with grief. He decides to change his approach by telling his clients exactly what he thinks. His bluntness, while effective, leads to some unforeseen consequences. Harrison Ford co-stars as another therapist struggling with Parkinson’s disease. All in all, Shrinking combines comedy with some serious topics, exploring the complexities of mental health with humour.
October 2
- Where’s Wanda
October 4
- Curses!
October 11
- Disclaimer*
- The Last of the Sea Women
October 16
- Shrinking, season 2
October 25
- Before
October 30
- You Would Do It Too
I’m short on time, what should I watch in October to keep up with the zeitgeist?
We get it. Time is thin and the streaming commitments are coming thick and fast. To ensure you’re keeping up with next month’s Stranger Things or Squid Game (read: the shows everyone’s talking about), this is our list of recommended must-watch films and series.
- Last Days of the Space Age, Disney+, October 2nd
- Starting 5, Netflix, October 9th
- Outer Banks season 4, Netflix, October 10th
- Shrinking, Apple TV+, October 16th
- Thou Shalt Not Steal, Stan, October 17th
- The Office Australia, Amazon Prime, October 18th
- What We Do In The Shadows season 6, Binge, October 22nd
- Territory, Netflix, October 24th
- Lisa Frankenstein, Netflix, October 26th
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