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What’s New to Stream on Hulu for October 2019

Horror fans will find plenty to enjoy this month on Hulu.
Castle Rock
By  · Published on October 3rd, 2019

Hulu has been stuck in the third place position when it comes to movie streaming behind Netflix and Amazon Prime because most people still see them strictly as a home for next-day television. They have movies too, though, and more than a few of them are gems that make Hulu a destination beyond last night’s TV shows.

The complete list of new movies and shows hitting Hulu this month — October 2019 — is below, but I wanted to highlight the best of the bunch along with several others worth seeking out.


Hulu Pick of the Month

Castle Rock is unlike any other Stephen King adaptation in that rather than bring a single tale of King’s to the screen it’s mashing them together into something original. Season two promises more turns and surprises, and this time the focus looks to be a young Annie Wilkes in her pre-Misery days, and if the trailer is to be believed she might be crossing paths with some of the vampires from ‘Salem’s Lot? I am so in.


Sundance Horrors!

Little Monsters

Two horror films that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival back in January were picked up by Hulu and are finally set to be released this month. Little Monsters arrives October 11th and is an Australian zom-com pitting a fantastic Lupita Nyong’o against a park filled with zombies trying to eat her kindergarten class. It’s bloody and funny in equal measure and features an utterly brilliant turn by Josh Gad as a popular kids entertainer. On the other end of the quality spectrum, Wounds starts streaming October 18th and tells the increasingly dull tale of a bartender punished for his good deed. There’s promise early on, but despite the cast (Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz) and the writer/director of the creepy as hell Under the Shadow (2016) it just falls apart well before the end. But hey, your mileage may vary.


Less Fancy Horrors

Event Horizon

Hulu is bringing plenty of classic (and just plain older) horror movies to the service this month, and many of them are worth re-watches and first-time watches alike. The Blade trilogy (1998, 2002, 2004) is an exercise in diminishing returns, but all three offer up some fun action/horror shenanigans. Event Horizon (1997) is a gory blend of cosmic horror and philosophical bloodletting, The Orphanage (2007) remains a modern ghost story gem, and Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) delivers some fun horror anthology antics.


The Complete List

October 1st
An American Haunting (2006)
Be Cool (2005)
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Big Time Movie (2012)
Blade (1998)
Blade 2 (2002)
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Blurt (2018)
Boyz N’ the Hood (1991)
Brooklyn’s Finest (2010)
Cadillac Man (1990)
Cloverfield (2008)
Constantine (2005)
Crash (2005)
Days of Thunder (1990)
Dead Heat (2002)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Eagle Vs. Shark (2007)
Election (1999)
Event Horizon (1997)
Face/Off (1997)
Fled (1996)
Forces of Nature (1999)
Get Shorty (1995)
Ghost World (2001)
Hellraiser (1987)
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)
Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie (2017)
High Noon (1952)
Hoosiers (1986)
I Spit on Your Grave (2011)
I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
I Spit on Your Grave 3 (2015)
Impostor (2001)
Into the Blue (2005)
Kalifornia (1993)
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
Little Black Book (2004)
Love Crimes (1992)
Major League II (1994)
Miami Group Murder (2018)
Mousehunt (1997)
Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Never Back Down (2008)
No Way Out (1987)
North Dallas Forty (1979)
One Direction: This Is Us (2013)
Patriot Games (1992)
Permanent Midnight (1998)
Pieces of April (2003)
Platoon (1986)
Play it Again, Sam (1972)
Project Nim (2011)
Rain Man (1988)
Rent (2005)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Saw (2004)
Saw 2 (2005)
Saw 6 (2009)
School Ties (1992)
Set Up (2011)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Sneakerheadz (2015)
Split Decisions (1988)
Stargate (1994)
Surf’s Up (2007)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
The Accused (1988)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
The Conspirator (2010)
The Haunting (1999)
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
The Hunted (2003)
The Killer Next Door (2018)
The Naked Gun 2 1/2 : The Smell of Fear (1991)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
The Orphanage (2007)
The Peacemaker (1997)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The Wrestler (2008)
Total Recall (1990)
Trading Mom (1994)
True Colors (1991)
True Grit (1969)
Up in the Air (2009)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Varsity Blues (1999)
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Winter’s Bone (2010)
Witness (1985)
60 Days In: Complete Season 5 (A&E)
Alien Encounters: Complete Seasons 2 and 3 (Science Channel)
American Pickers: Complete Season 19 (History Channel)
Basketball Wives LA: Complete Seasons 1–5 (VH1)
Biography: The Trump Dynasty: Complete Season 1 (A&E)
Born This Way: Complete Seasons 3 and 4 (A&E)
Children of the Snow: Complete Season 1 (IDTV)
Detroit: Comeback City: Complete Season 1 (History Channel)
Diners, Drive Ins and Dives: Complete Season 26 (Food Network)
Fixer Upper: Behind the Design: Complete Season 1 (HGTV)
Guy’s Grocery Games: Complete Season 11 (Food Network)
Halloween Baking Championship: Complete Seasons 1–3 (Food Network)
Halloween Wars: Complete Seasons 4–7 (Food Network)
Halloween Wars: Special (Food Network)
House Hunters: Complete Seasons 110 and 111 (HGTV)
I Am Frankie: Complete Seasons 1–2 (Nickelodeon)
Kids Halloween Baking Championship: Special (Food Network)
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath: Complete Season 3 (A&E)
Many Shades of Jane: Complete Season 1 (A&E)
Mountain Men: Complete Seasons 3 and 4 (History Channel)
Murder in the Heartland: Complete Season 1 (IDTV)
My 600-lb Life: Complete Season 7 (TLC)
OutDaughtered: Complete Season 4 (TLC)
Paradise Run: Complete Seasons 1 and 2 (Nickelodeon)
Paranormal Lockdown UK: Complete Season 1 (Destination America)
Property Virgins: Complete Seasons 16 and 17 (Food Network)
Sailor Moon: Complete Season 4 (Viz)
Storage Wars: Complete Season 12 (A&E)
The Dead Files: Complete Seasons 7 and 8 (Travel Channel)
The Dude Perfect Show: Complete Seasons 1 and 2 (Nickelodeon)
The First 48 Presents: Homicide Squad Atlanta: Complete Season 1 (A&E)
The Hills: Complete Seasons 1–6 (MTV)
The Rap Game: Complete Season 5 (Lifetime)
UFO Conspiracies: Complete Season 1 (Science Channel)

October 2nd
Amazing Grace (2019)

October 4th
Into The Dark: Uncanny Annie: Episode Premiere (Hulu Original)
Light as a Feather: Complete Season 2, Part 2 (Hulu Original)
Pegasus: Pony With a Broken Wing (2019)
Saints & Sinners: Complete Season 4 (Bounce TV)
The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Complete Season 11 (Bravo)

October 5th
Drunk History: Complete Season 6B (Comedy Central)

October 7th
Missing Link (2019)
The Real Housewives of New Jersey: Complete Season 9 (Bravo)

October 9th
Megan Leavey (2017)

October 11th
Little Monsters (2019)
Trespassers (2019)
The Bravest Knight: Complete Season 1B (Hulu Original)

October 13th
The Last Face (2017)
The Powerpuff Girls: Complete Season 3B (Cartoon Network)

October 14th
Little Woods (2019)
Letterkenny: Complete Season 7 (Hulu Original)

October 17th
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

October 18th
Wounds (2019)
Looking For Alaska: Complete Season 1 (Hulu Original)

October 20th
The Ladybug (2018)
Catfish: The TV Show: Complete Season 7D (MTV)

October 22nd
Benjamin (2019)

October 26th
Killing Zoe (1994)


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