Happy October, Polygon readers! We’re officially in fall, and you know what that means: Halloween season. With the year’s spookiest holiday almost upon us, nearly every streaming service is pulling out all the stops to serve up the very best horror and horror-adjacent movies their respective libraries have to offer.
As always, we’ve combed through everything that’s new to streaming this month to bring you the very best of October. There’s plenty of exciting movies to stream this month, including a Japanese horror classic, a psychedelic anime musical, a pulse-pounding Indonesian action thriller, and much more.
Here are the movies new to streaming services you should watch this month.
Image: Janus Films
Where to watch: Criterion Channel
Genre: Horror
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
There are plenty of great horror movies about serial killers, but few are as frightening as Cure.
This masterpiece from Japanese horror legend Kiyoshi Kurosawa follows a
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