New on HBO Now: All the Movies and TV Coming in October

Fall has, uh, fallen, and HBO is leaning into the Halloween season with a tall pile of scary movies, as well as a number of films and TV shows that aren’t quite as frightening. Read on for our breakdown of everything the pay-cable channel’s streaming platform stands to gain (and lose) in October.

On the feature film side, HBO Now’s most enticing additions include a pair of acclaimed theatrical premieres that don’t have much else in common: Steven Spielberg’s Best Picture-nominated Pentagon Papers drama The Post, starring Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, makes its streaming debut on Oct. 27, while John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s surprise-hit dark comedy Game Night—one of Paste’s top 2018 film picks (so far)—arrives much sooner on Oct. 6. Other stand-out film additions include Kevin Costner’s Oscar juggernaut Dances with Wolves, prehistoric Aardman Animations feature Early Man, Wes Anderson’s first stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox, Paul Thomas Anderson’s divisive Thomas Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice, Michael Mann-helmed crime thriller Public Enemies, Liam Neeson’s action career-launcher Taken and Terrence Malick’s masterful WWII epic The Thin Red Line, all debuting on Oct. 1. Those flicks are followed later in the month by post-apocalyptic YA action franchise finale Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Oct. 13), mandatory minimum sentencing documentary The Sentence (Oct. 15) and HBO Films’ Peter Dinklage-starring My Dinner with Hervé (Oct. 20), among others.

As for the TV side of the slate, HBO Now’s October highlights include the Oct. 7 season four finale of Dwayne Johnson-starring sports dramedy Ballers, i.e., Entourage with athletes, and the Oct. 5 season three finale of animated indie-comedy series Animals, created by Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese, and featuring an ungodly amount of comedic voice talent. New shows debuting on HBO next month include Camping (Oct. 14), in which “a group of old friends,” played by Jennifer Garner, David Tennant and others, “embark on a camping trip, sparking heightened emotions, latent tensions (sexual and otherwise) and memories they’d rather forget,” per HBO, as well as Pod Save America (Oct. 12), a new four-part series of specials based on the hit political podcast of the same name, and special presentation Flight of the Conchords: Live in London (Oct. 6), in which Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement perform both new and classic original songs for a sold-out audience at London’s Eventim Apollo.

Don’t overlook the titles leaving HBO Now’s library at the end of October, either: A bunch of scary movies are sticking around only as long as Halloween itself, including AVP: Alien vs Predator, Alien: Covenant, Hannibal, The Mummy (the good one from 1999), The Omen, Predator (the good one from 1987) and The Silence of the Lambs. Other films outbound on Oct. 31 are Avatar, The Beguiled (both the 1971 and 2017 versions), Crazy Heart, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Girls Trip, Good Will Hunting, Man on the Moon, The Theory of Everything and more.

Find HBO’s entire October lineup below.

Original Programming:
HBO First Look: First Man (10/1)
Queen of the World (10/1)
Student Athlete (10/2)
Entre Nos: A Stand-Up Comedy Special (10/5)
RX Early Detection: A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee (10/8)
Flight of the Conchords: Live in London (10/6)
Pod Save America (10/12)
The Sentence (10/15)
HBO First Look: Hunter Killer (10/16)
My Dinner with Hervé (10/20)
Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram (10/22)
HBO First Look: Bohemian Rhapsody (10/25)
Gente De Zona: En Letra De Otro (10/26)