We’re in the final days of October, which means the spooky, the scary, and the downright terrifying are at their annual peak. There’s no point in resisting the frights on the creepiest weekend of the year, so the best way to honor the chilling moment is with a nod to the classics. 

Whatever your particular taste, there’s a fresh spin on a spine-tingling tradition. Queue up a decades-later continuation of a seminal slasher, sample an anthology of old-school gothic storytelling, or shiver through the adaptations of a pair of disturbing classics. Who says an old story can’t serve new scares? 

But first, what’s new on Netflix?

A perfect landing. Part 2 of Simone Biles Rising, the docuseries chronicling the decorated gymnast’s experience at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, is here. Not flipping for it? That’s fine, don’t flip at all — in fact, Don’t Move for Adam Schindler and Brian Netto’s new thriller, about a woman alone in the woods who’s injected with a paralytic agent, and must escape her attacker before her time is up. Not in the stars for you? Try the new, three-part true-crime docuseries This Is the Zodiac Speaking, which revisits the shocking case of the Zodiac Killer with new insight.  

If you have just a night … 

Say hello to the boogeyman. Nothing says Halloweekend like Halloween, so ring in the scariest week of the year with a spin of David Gordon Green’s 2018 slasher, the 11th entry in the iconic horror franchise (and direct sequel to the 1978 original). Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her classic scream-queen role as Laurie Strode, who faces off with the masked killer Michael Myers 40 years after his original killing spree.  

If you have a whole day … 

Look inside Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. The 2022 anthology series, created and produced by the horror master, comprises eight chilling tales, covering a wide range of spooky settings and terror-tinged themes. Each standalone episode is directed by a different filmmaker with a singular vision; the lineup includes Ana Lily Amirpour, Catherine Hardwicke, Jennifer Kent, and Guillermo Navarro.

If you have the entire weekend … 

Take the tour. In fact, take two: First, Mike Flanagan’s critically lauded limited series The Haunting of Hill House (2018), inspired by Shirley Jackson’s eerie novel of the same name, follows a group of siblings (Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel, and Victoria Pedretti) recalling a terrifying episode from their youth. Then follow that up with Flanagan’s 2020 follow-up The Haunting of Bly Manor, a loose adaptation of Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw in which a newly hired au pair (Pedretti) to two young children discovers that her new workplace is haunted.  

Don’t forget, you have one last chance … 

To visit a silly place. The 1975 comedy classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones and written by and starring Gilliam, Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin (collectively, the legendary comedy group Monty Python) hilariously parodies Arthurian legend. After Halloween, it will be dismembered from Netflix — but it’s just a flesh wound. 

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