Like every month, the giant Netflix unveils its novelties and here are those of October 2022. On the program the new series from the creator of The Haunting of Hill House and another from a great director very appreciated for Halloween.
Even when you only subscribe to one streaming service, it can quickly become complicated to follow the releases. So here’s everything you need to know about Netflix’s October 2022 novelties after those of Disney+. And like the firm of Mickey, make way for Halloween with long-awaited series by Mike Flanagan and Guillermo Del Toro or several films including one for the whole family, The Bad Spirit of Halloween with Priah Ferguson, Erica Sinclair in Stranger Things.
The new Netflix movies of October 2022
American Girl (October 5)
American Girl (or Luckiest Girl Alive across the Atlantic) marks the return of the talented Mila Kunis (That’s 70s Show, Black Swan). She plays a New York writer who succeeds in everything, until the day she is forced to return to her painful past as a high school student.
- Togo (October 5)
- One Star at a Time (October 5)
- Mr. Harrigan’s Telephone (October 5)
- Old People (October 7)
- For Better and For False (October 13)
- The Evil Spirit of Halloween (October 14)
The School of Good and Evil (October 19)
Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Devil’s Associate…) and Kerry Washington (Scandal, Django Unchained…) as principals of the school of Good and Evil.
Sophie and Agatha are best friends. They are intended to integrate the school of good for the first with Cinderella and Snow White, and the school of evil for the second. However, following a spell, their respective destinies will change and their friendship will be put to the test.
- 20th Century Girl (October 21)
- Murders Without Orders (October 26)
- Rob Mussolini (October 26)
- Cici (October 27)
- Beyond the Universe (October 27)
- In the West Nothing New (October 28)
Murders Without Orders (October 26)
After the highly criticized Ava, Jessica Chastain (Interstellar, Miss Sloane…) re-signs with Netflix for a thriller in the medical world.
Suspecting her colleague (Academy Award-winning Eddie Redmayne) of being responsible for the mysterious deaths of several patients, a nurse risks her life to uncover the truth in this harrowing thriller based on true events.
The series of October 2022
The Midnight Club (October 7)
Mike Flanagan, one of Netflix’s leading figures behind the series The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and Sermons de Nuit, returns with a new horror drama. With The Midnight Club, the director steps out of his comfort zone by abandoning his favorite actors.
In an establishment specializing in the reception of young adults in the terminal phase, eight patients meet every evening at midnight to tell scary stories. They make a pact: the first of them to die will have to send the group a sign from beyond. The Midnight Club is based on the novel of the same name, published in 1994, as well as other works by Christopher Pike.
- It’s Halloween Cake (October 5)
- Andropause (October 7)
- Glitch (October 7)
- Derry Girls (October 7)
- Spirit Rangers (October 10)
- Belascoaran Private Investigator (October 12)
- The Playlist (October 13)
- The Watcher (October 13)
Exception (October 13)
Exception is a new sci-fi horror anime series starring Yoshitaka Amano, a Japanese artist who brought characters from early Final Fantasy and cult episodes like FF7 to life. We also find the writer Hirotaka Adachi, alias Otsuichi, the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (Snake Eyes, Appleseed…) and Yuzo Sato (Naruto, the film: Special mission in the land of the Moon, Pokémon, the film: Mewtwo counter- offensive…).
In the distant future, humanity has no choice but to leave Earth and migrate to another galaxy. A ship is sent to a planet to terraform it. The members of his crew are created one by one thanks to a biological 3D printer. Unfortunately, a fatal error occurs during the process of creating Lewis, a member of the crew. As Lewis turns on his companions Nina, Mack, Patty and Oscar, the final mission countdown ticks into the chilling darkness of the ship.
- We all want to be saved (October 14)
- The Extraordinary Investigations
- Notre Dame: Part of the Fire (October 19)
- The taste of life (October 21)
- Barbarians II (October 21)
- Dubai Bling (October 27)
- If I had known (October 28)
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (October 25)
Guillermo Del Toro, the cult Mexican director of the films Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim or recently Nightmare Alley – who even had a role in Death Stranding by Hideo Kojima -, will offer The Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix.
An anthology of sinister stories, including two specially created by Del Toro, with different directors each time such as Jennifer Kent (The Nightingale), Vincenzo Natali (Cube) or Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen). The episode The Viewing will even have actor Peter Weller: RoboCop himself. The first trailer is very promising to say the least.
Netflix documentaries of October 2022
- The Redeem Team: Bounce Back Together (October 7)
- Jeffrey Dahmer: Self-Portrait of a Killer (October 7)
- Sue Perkins Perfectly Legal (October 13)
- Take 1 (October 14)
- The Extraordinary Investigations (October 18)
- Descendant: The Heirs of Africatown (October 21)