Friends, it’s here at last. After a whole month of sneaking early candy and carefully planning the perfect costume, Halloween has finally arrived. And no matter how expertly you strung up those fake cobwebs or how long ago you set up your plastic tombstones, it’s this weekend that the serious spooks will really go down — and the dead will rise up to walk among the living.

Honor the eeriest time of year, that moment when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest, by queuing up a stream that tells a tale of the undead. From the picks below, choose between zombies and vampires, movies and shows, classics and indies — stories gothic, absurdist, and apocalyptic. Now look alive! It’s time to get streaming!

But first, what’s new on Netflix?

A very hot listing. The agents of the Oppenheim Group struggle with a dramatically shifting market — not to mention their dramatic personal lives — in the hit LA real-estate reality series Selling Sunset, Season 9 of which has now arrived. Not accepting that offer? Go all in on Ballad of a Small Player, a new psychological drama from Edward Berger based on Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel. Colin Farrell stars as a gambling addict evading his debts, lying low in Macao, pursued by an investigator (Tilda Swinton) and aided — maybe — by a mysterious woman (Fala Chen). Don’t like those odds? Set your course for the Continent. Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and based on the book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, the fantasy drama The Witcher follows monster hunter Geralt of Rivia as he fights off the many magical dangers of his world in fulfillment of his destiny. Season 4 of the series has now arrived, with Liam Hemsworth making his debut as the new Geralt. 

If you have just a night … 

Double down on the undead. A pairing of zombie movies from celebrated directors offers two very different spins on the genre: George A. Romero’s seminal 1968 horror film, Night of the Living Dead, which effectively introduced the zombie movie as we know it, revolves around a group of people trapped in a farmhouse as they try to fight off an attack of the undead. After that, watch the subgenre evolve with 2019’s The Dead Don’t Die, from indie legend Jim Jarmusch. The dark comedy, which boasts an A-list ensemble including Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Danny Glover, and Selena Gomez, sees a small town’s police force take on a zombie attack. 

If you have a whole day … 

Sink your teeth into the OG (times three). You can see the tale of Dracula evolve — but never age, of course — before your very eyes with three different adaptations of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. Start with John Badham’s Dracula (1979), in which Frank Langella stars as the bloodsucker and Laurence Olivier as Professor Van Helsing. Next up, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 horror Bram Stoker’s Dracula casts Gary Oldman in the title role, with Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker, and Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing. Finally, close things out with Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s reimagined 2020 miniseries Dracula, which expands on the tale of the character across three episodes and stars Claes Bang as Dracula, Dolly Wells as Van Helsing, and Morfydd Clark as Mina. 

If you have the entire weekend … 

Survive. Over 11 seasons, the living characters of The Walking Dead navigate the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, so there’s more than enough undead action to fill your weekend. Developed by Frank Darabont from the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, the neo-Western horror drama (which originally aired from 2010–2022) stars Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, a deputy sheriff in Georgia who wakes up from a coma to find the world a little deader than it was last time he was conscious. Dodging zombies at every turn, he searches for his family and joins forces with fellow survivors he finds along the way. Not quite enough for you? Keep the apocalypse alive (uh, sort of) with the spin-offs Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Dead City, and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.  

Don’t forget, you have one last chance … 

To watch as she dives in. Bradley Cooper’s 2018 romantic musical drama A Star Is Born, a contemporary remake of the 1937, 1954, and 1976 film versions of the same story, stars Lady Gaga as an aspiring singer and Cooper as the famous musician who first discovers and then falls in love with her. As their romance intensifies, her career takes off and his declines. After next week, it’ll be too late to watch these stars rise and fall.