OK, people, pay attention! No more messing around. It’s time to get serious! A mere two weeks remain until the spookiest, weirdest, and above all, the most outrageously dressed night of the year. Do you know what costume you’ll be wearing? 

If not, no need to panic. You can spend this weekend streaming pop-culture Halloween inspiration and still have plenty of time to re-create what you choose. Try queueing up a recent hit full of superstar-cool modern looks, a trio of zany movies from a decade that’s still influencing what people wear, or a series that will expand your understanding of what makeup can do (and take it to previously unfathomable new heights). It’s shaping up to be a transformative weekend!

But first, what’s new on Netflix?

Some high-stakes diplomacy. Season 3 of Debora Cahn’s The Diplomat has just arrived, and Keri Russell’s US ambassador to the UK Kate Wyler is back to juggling crises both personal and political. Not making that appointment? Start instead with Starting 5, the sports docuseries that follows five NBA stars through a season, both on and off the court. The new episodes, filmed throughout the 2024–25 season, train the camera on Jaylen Brown, Kevin Durant, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Tyrese Haliburton, and James Harden. That an air ball for you? Call up The Perfect Neighbor, the Sundance-winning new true-crime documentary by Geeta Gandbhir that uses bodycam footage to break down the case of the 2023 killing of Ajike Owens.

If you have just a night … 

Slay. After KPop Demon Hunters came out this summer, it smashed a Netflix record and prompted big-screen sing-alongs of its irresistible original tunes. As one of the big releases of 2025, it’s now poised to have a golden Halloween, too. So call up Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans’ animated fantasy about a K-pop girl group called HUNTR/X (voiced by Arden Cho, May Hong, and Ji-young Yoo, with the singing voices of EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI) who are both pop idols and demon hunters. Once you’ve watched, the fashion hunting will come easy: Officially licensed costumes for the trio are available at Spirit Halloween. 

If you have a whole day … 

Throw it back to the ’90s with some of the decade’s wackiest pop-culture looks. First, help yourself to the devilish glamour of Death Becomes Her, Robert Zemeckis’s cult-classic 1992 black comedy in which Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn play a pair of women who, in vicious competition with each other, both accept a beauty treatment from a mysterious specialist (Isabella Rossellini) that promises eternal youth. Next, let yourself go a little crazy and put on The Mask. Based on John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke’s comic book series of the same name, Chuck Russell’s 1994 action movie stars Jim Carrey as a shy man who transforms, when he puts on an old wooden mask, into a brash, green-faced trickster. And finally, while Jay Roach’s goofy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery sends up the ’60s (especially the early James Bond films), it remains a defining comedy of 1997. Mike Myers stars as the title character, a womanizing, flamboyantly attired British secret agent; he also plays Austin’s archnemesis, Dr. Evil. Following its initial success, the spy spoof spawned two groovy sequels: 1999’s The Spy Who Shagged Me and 2002’s Goldmember. 

If you have the entire weekend … 

Put your face on à la Face Off. Across three seasons of the 2011 Syfy reality competition, prosthetic makeup artists who do special-effects makeup for both screen and stage put their incredible skills and their wild imaginations to good use. (So if you’re looking for a low-key “no-makeup makeup” tutorial, you’ve come to the wrong place — possibly the wrong galaxy.) Hosted by McKenzie Westmore, the show presents its contestants with a new themed challenge in every episode, eliminating them one by one until a final few face off for a chance to win a jaw-dropping grand prize.    

Don’t forget, you have one last chance … 

To go indie. In Allan Moyle’s 1995 coming-of-age cult classic Empire Records, an independent record store faces a corporate takeover and its devoted young staff (including Renée Zellweger, Ethan Embry, Debi Mazar, and Liv Tyler, among other stars early in their careers) try to save it. Next week, the movie will go out … but at least it will never sell out.