Yes, Halloween ended this weekend, to some acclaim and more consternation, but it wasn’t the only scary show or movie new to streaming.

Halloween Ends premiered on Peacock as well as in theaters on Friday, concluding David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy, beginning with 2018’s Halloween, followed by Halloween Kills in 2020. Halloween Kills was criticized for sidelining Jamie Lee Curtis’s character by hospitalizing her for most of the film, so this film attempts to reset the balance by giving us a lot more Laurie Strode – and by taking the focus off of Michael Myers as the bad guy.

In addition to Michael, the final film introduces a brand new villain, Corey (Rohan Campbell) a traumatized young man, sent to prison for the accidental death of a child, who turns from a sympathetic love interest for Laurie’s grieving granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichek), to an implausible Michael Myers’ protege. There’s also loads of distasteful victim-blaming here; the whole town takes pains to castigate Laurie for basically leading Michael on, as if it’s her fault she’s being chased by an unstoppable killing machine. It’s more distressing to Laurie (and the audience) than the possibility that she might actually get murdered this time.

The ending here is probably the least ambiguous of any Halloween movie, yet it does not make it impossible for there to be a sequel (not to mention a reboot.) But if there is any justice, Laurie Strode won’t be a part of it. She’s earned a peaceful existence by now, surely.

For a (somewhat) more original new scare, check out Dark Glasses, which recently dropped on Shudder. Dario Argento’s first film in a decade, Dark Glasses is the story of Diana (Ilenia Pastorelli). a prostitute who runs afoul of a serial killer. He pursues her, causing a car accident that leaves her blind and two people dead. Now she must learn to live withoiut sight while being stalked by a homicidal maniac.

The movie starts out with an eerie scene: Diana is driving around when she notices that everyone is staring upwards. It turns out everyone is looking at an eclipse, most with pinhole viewers; Diana stops and peers at it with only sunglasses as protection. This, as it happens, is minor forshadowing.

After the accident, Diana needs to be trained in how to maneuver around the world without sight. She is helped by Rita (Asia Argento), who both trains her in how to get around the house and the rest of the world using her cane, and who assists her in getting a seeing-eye dog. Soon, though, she has another constant companion: Chin (Andrea Zhang), the son of the couple killed in the accident that blinded Diana. Chin gets Diana’s address after she visits him in the orphanage and turns up at her place, to stay permanently, apparently.

Soon, though, Both Diana and Chin are on the run, after the killer (who has killed other prostitutes before and after his attempt on Diana) resumes his pursuit of her. Argento, who directed classic giallos like Deep Red and Tenebrae, and the iconic Suspiria, uses color to good effect here – a slash of red lipstick here, a deep blue night shot there – but the story gets a bit silly at times (Diana and Chin stumble into a nest of water snakes in a scene that goes on way, way too long), and requires the characters to do dumb things to advance the plot. Still, it’s an original story (though it is reminiscent of the Aurdrey Hepburn flick Wait Until Dark) from a master director.

Also available to stream is a new series from Ryan Murphy called The Watcher, though it could be called American Horror Story: HOA. In it, Dean and Nora Brannock (played by Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Watts) mortgage their futures by purchasing an expensive mansion in the New Jersey suburbs. Before they can even refurb the kitchen, though, they are getting bone-chilling anonymous letters from someone called “The Watcher,” who said they had been watching the house for decades—watching the house was their job, their life.

This part of the series is based on a true story (which you can learn in around 30 minutes by listening to an excellent podcast that details the extent of the campaign the letter-writer waged against the terrified family unfortunate enough to move into the house.) The show takes liberties with the story, necessary to pad out the tale to a seven-episode story, and to brand it with Murphy’s signature creepiness.

Margo Martindale and Richard Kind play the menacing, possibly cultish, couple next door, while Mia Farrow stars as Pearl Winslow, who maintains an unhealthy obsession with the Brannock’s historical dumbwaiters and who has less control over her brother Jasper (Terry Kinney), who keeps sneaking into and hiding in the Brannock’s home. All of the neighbors seem to have been cast in the same freakshow mold (a Murphy trademark) and the house itself has all the gothic built-ins you’d expect: tunnels, secret rooms, music playing from…somewhere, and of course, Chekhov’s dumbwaiter.

Still, for all the spooky bric-a-brac larded into the tale, when The Watcher sticks to its core story, it is very watchable: a truly baffling and chilling whodunnit, which in real life was never solved. (The show also weaves in another true-crime story, adding to the fictional horror.) It’s not hard to get addicted to it.

Horror fans who want guaranteed thrills and chills need look no further than the Shudder series The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time, the first six installments of which have aired already. (The remaining two will premiere Wednesday, October 19th and the last airs on October 26th.)

The series counts down iconic scares from classic horror movies like Friday the 13th, Suspiria, Get Out, Frankenstein, and, you know, 97 others. Icons of the world of horror like Mick Garris, Edgar Wright, Mike Flanagan, Tanarive Due, Tony Todd (and more) recount the indelible moments from nearly a century of scary cinema, from the first jump scare (in 1922’s Nosferatu) to the memorably horrifying ‘bent neck lady’ in Flanagan’s (much more recent) The Haunting of Hill House. Yes, television shows are included, and there will be spoilers given for many of the movies, so be warned: if you don’t know the super surprise ending of The Sixth Sense, et al, watch at your own risk.

But do watch – it’s fun to relive all those gory, scary moments with other genre aficionados, and to see if your rankings match theirs. Is anything scarier than an killer clown? Watch and see!