What’s new to streaming this week? (Oct. 10, 2025) What’s Streaming Now on Netflix, Apple TV+, Hulu, and the Rest?

Need a great movie to watch at home? Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, and Peacock are only some of the streaming services that have a choice. And that is even without considering the huge collections of movies and TV shows on each streamer!

What’s new to streaming this week? You do not need to scroll through your services to see what to watch, wasting an hour. We stand by you, whatever you feel. Show4Ever provides watch recommendations on all of the above, separated by genre: comedy, thriller, horror, documentary, and animation, among others. However, in case you want something new (or new to streaming), we have you covered there, as well.

The entertainment team of Show4Ever has done the streaming services a search to bring out the most talked about releases of the week and ranked them from worst to best, to the most watchable. You want to get the gory body horror around Halloween, a new cringe comedy, or you need to binge on true crime documentaries, we have something exactly to your liking.

1- Is It Cake? Halloween

Is It Cake? has no better trick-or-treater on TV than a Halloween special, to test your eyeballs. Host Mikey Day, as usual, sets the titular question to celebrity judges, who are expected to determine whether the hyperreal cakes made by competing bakers are cake or not. In the course of four episodes and plenty of dry ice, nine competitors will devise confections in every spooky form and shape, jack-o-lanterns to toads to witches’ boots and black cats. On the judge side, there will be Harvey Guillen, Chelsea Peretti, Gillian Jacobs, and others. — Shannon Connellan, UK Editor

Where you can watch:  Is It Cake? Halloween is now streaming on Netflix.

2- My Father, the BTK Killer

Netflix is also contributing to its constantly growing true crime collection with a documentary about Kerri Rawson, the daughter of notorious serial killer Dennis Rader.

Rader was arrested in 2005 and is serving 10 consecutive life sentences on 10 counts of first-degree serial murder, for which he was known as BTK (bind, torture, kill) due to a series of gruesome murders in Wichita, Kansas, during the 1970s. In her documentary, Skye Borgman narrates the story via his daughter, who can be heard in the trailer discussing the effects that the crimes and arrest of her father have had and still have on her life today. — Sam Haysom, Deputy UK Editor

Where you can watch:  My Father, the BTK Killer premieres Oct. 10 on Netflix.

3- rue Haunting

On the surface, True Haunting appears to be a gift that has come at the right time to scare during the spooky season. An executive producer of the documentary series True Haunting is James Wan, who had a hand in the development of such successful scary movie franchises as Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring. But the real performance is rather slow and tame.

Instead of a new ghost story each episode, True Haunting is the irritating Netflix true crime documentary of making a relatively simple story seem to be several episodes. Quite on the contrary, it becomes quite tiresome. True Haunting Season 1 presents only two stories in five episodes, one of which is about college students who are haunted by a poltergeist, and another one is about a young family that is haunted by some evil spirit in their new house. Though the talking head interviews are serious, the True Haunting will not provide the scares in its narrations or reenactments. There are certainly more horror and docs on Netflix. — Kristy Puchko, Entertainment Editor.

Where you can watch: True Haunting is now streaming on Netflix.

4- Him

The NFL and horror collide in Him, a football-focused fright fest produced by Jordan Peele and directed by Justin Tipping. Him introduces rising star quarterback Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers), who gets the chance to train with his idol, Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans). But the ways of Isaiah are more alien–and more bloody!–than Cam has ever experienced. To what extent is he actually ready to sacrifice to be the GOAT?

Despite the prestige that comes with Peele’s involvement, Him was a critical and box office disappointment. Nevertheless, as Show4Ever Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko puts it, the movie is not irredeemable at all, with excellent acting by Withers and Wayans, and some surreal fright provided by Tipping. Where Him fumbles the ball, however, is its ending. She writes in her review that in its last minutes, the story of Tipping turns into something more tangible, more gory, and less adventurous. The twisty and exciting ending is not earned. So, in the end, Him falls short of astounding.” — Belen Edwards, Entertainment Reporter.

Director: Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heideker, and Jim Jefferies.

Where you can watch:  Him is now available for rent or purchase on digital.

5- Vicious

Dakota Fanning, unfortunately, lets a stranger in the door in Vicious, the latest horror venture from Bryan Bertino (The Strangers, The Dark and the Wicked, The Monster). Fanning stars Polly, a young woman who is living alone in a large house. An apparently harmless elderly woman (Kathryn Hunter) shows up on the door of Polly one night, late, bearing a box of creepiness, and tells Polly that she will die unless she puts three things in the box: “Something you need, something you hate, something you love.” Easy, right? — S.C.

Starring Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott, and Emily Mitchell.

Where you can watch: Vicious premieres Oct. 10 on Paramount+.

6- Victoria Beckham

We lived the skerricks of Spice Girl lore in the Beckham documentary of the legendary football player on Netflix. Now, Victoria Beckham stands front and center in her own limited series from the streaming service. Created by the Beckham production team and directed by Becoming’s Nadia Hallgren, Victoria Beckham takes a look into the fashion designer and singer’s life, beginning at Paris Fashion Week. The three-part documentary will discuss the iconic Posh Spice days, her relationship with David Beckham, her family life, and the creation of a fashion empire. The talking heads are soaringly high profile, including Anna Wintour and Tom Ford. — S.C.

Where you can watch:  Victoria Beckham is now streaming on Netflix.

7- Ozzy: No Escape From Now

Ozzy Osbourne, a late rock icon, was onstage just a few weeks before his death in July at 76, playing with Black Sabbath in the city where it all began, Birmingham, England, in 1968. Director Tania Alexander chronicles the lead-up to this farewell show, as well as Osbourne’s final album Patient Number Nine, and the impact of his life-changing 2019 fall in the documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now. Still in the edit at the time of the music icon’s death, according to Deadline, the documentary was executive produced by his wife Sharon and included interviews with Osborne himself, and Alexander was commissioned by his family to complete it. — S.C.

Where you can watch:  Ozzy: No Escape From Now is now streaming on Paramount+.

8- Boots

In the wake of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bizarre tirade against diversity in the U.S. Army, there may be no more relevant series to check out than Boots. The series is based on the memoir of Greg Cope White, The Pink Marine, and follows the life of a young gay man, Cameron (Miles Heizer), who enlists in the Marine Corps in 1990. By that time, it was still a crime to be gay in the U.S military. Four years later, the discriminatory policy of Don’t ask, don’t tell would be put into effect.

Cameron is a recent graduate who does not know what to do with his life, and thus, he rashly joins the Marine Corps boot camp with his best friend, Ray (Liam Oh). The experience begins as a nightmare, a nightmare full of drill sergeants screaming apparently interminable racist, homophobic, and fatphobic bile. However, in the near future, Cameron is forming a fraternity of his fellow recruits, which results in a heart-warming coming-of-age story. — B.E.

Director: Miles Heizer, Max Parker, Vera Farmiga, Ana Ayora, Blake Burt, Cedrick Cooper, Dominic Goodman, Nicholas Logan, Kieron Moore, Angus O Brien, Liam Oh, and Rico Paris.

Where you can watch: Boots is now streaming on Netflix.

9- The Woman in Cabin 10

An Agatha Christie-style murder mystery with a psychological twist, Netflix’s The Woman in Cabin 10 sees journalist Laura Blacklock (Keira Knightley) boarding a luxury yacht to write an article on a charity.

The problem? Blacklock shortly sees somebody being thrown overboard through the cabin that she is in, only to be informed by the rest of the ship that there is no one in the adjacent cabin. Is it that she is losing her head, or is it a cover-up?

Adapted by Simon Stone, the novel by Ruth Ware was adapted in 2016 and stars Guy Pearce, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, and Hannah Waddingham. — S.H.

Director: Amir Nizar Zubi
, Amanda Collin, and Lisa Loven Kongsli

Starring: Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham, David Ajala, Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey, Daniel Ings, Gitte Witt, Christopher Rygh, Pippa Bennett-Warner, John Macmillan, Paul Kaye, Amanda Collin, and Lisa Loven Kongsli

Where you can watch: The Woman in Cabin 10 premieres Oct. 10 on Netflix.

10- Freakier Friday

A sequel to the legendary 2003 family comedy Freaky Friday is made with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. Of course, a follow-up to a body swap movie implies further body swapping. This time, however, mother-daughter pair Tess and Anna Coleman change bodies with the teen daughter of Anna, Harper (Julia Butters), and her future stepsister Lily (Sophia Hammons). Although the teen girls believe that this is the best way to separate Anna and Lily’s dad (Manny Jacinto) before they can be married, Tess and Anna (in the bodies of Lily and Harper) are keen to have themselves unswapped before their careers or personal lives can be ruined by teen drama.

Got all that? Don’t stress. It is a romp that can be relaxed in and watched with girls on a night in and directed by Nisha Ganatra. As I wrote in my review, “Freakier Friday isn’t better than the original. Yet it is amusing, entertaining, and funny. To add to the victories of Curtis and Lohan, there is a meta pleasure in watching a real-life wild child ride back on her horse to win. The fact that she is allowed to rock out while doing it is even better. — K.P.

Director: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Rosalind Chao, Chad Michael Murray, Mark Harmon, Vanessa Bayer, Christina Vidal, Haley Hudson, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Lucille Soong.

Where you can watch: Freakier Friday is now available for rent or purchase on digital.

11- Freaked

It was not very long after Alex Winter had amazed us as one of the eponymous heroes in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure that he co-directed and appeared in this bizarre comedy that resembled a crazy fever dream. And now, Freaked has a 4K UHD restoration, which is a true gift to fans who haven’t had home video or high streaming options to watch this 1993 cult classic for ages.

Winters plays an overgrown child actor, Ricky Coogan, whose encounter with freak show owner (Randy Quaid) results in a new and unforeseen development in his show business career – and a new family. Full of bizarre practical effects, unapologetically outrageous humor, and VERY ’90s cameos, Freaked is a deranged blast. — K.P.

Director: Alex Winter, Randy Quaid, William Sadler, Megan Ward, Michael Stuhlbargen, Bobcat Goldthwait, Mr. T, and Brooke Shields.

Where you can watch: Freaked‘s 4K UHD restoration is now available for rent or purchase on digital. 

12- The Alabama Solution

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, Parts One and Two, is a nerve-rattling documentary series that made a tremendous impact on true crime television by Andrew Jarecki. Now, with co-director Charlotte Kaufman, he’s offering The Alabama Solution, a chilling look into the American prison system and its abuses against the incarcerated people therein.

Because the American justice system has greatly limited journalists’ access to the inside of prisons, The Alabama Solution takes an unusual tactic in its interviews. The documentarians depend much on video interviews that were secretly recorded on contraband cell phones in an Alabama prison. This provides a grim glimpse into the lives (and deaths) of people in prison, and juxtaposes that with the media reports on the same. The comparison is enlightening, terrifying, and provocative. — K.P.

Where you can watch: The Alabama Solution premieres Oct. 10 on HBO Max.

13- How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

If you loved the animated adventures How to Train Your Dragon brought to theaters and televisions with its string of films and spinoff TV shows, you won’t want to miss the live-action version, where the world of Berk feels more real than ever before.

The Mason Thames of the Black Phone enters the frozen footsteps of Hiccup, a misfit Viking who is not concerned with the slaughtering of the flying creatures that his people fight. Rather, having injured a beautiful dragon he calls Toothless, Hiccup is hoping to establish a new perception between the opposing parties. However, first he will need to find some allies among other villagers, including warrior-in-training Astrid (The Last of Us Nico Parker) and his burly father, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler, returning to the same role in the 2010 movie). And that will be much dragonery, and maybe a battle in the air or two!

In her review of the film, UK editor Shannon Connellan wrote, “How to Train Your Dragon sees [Dean] DeBlois sticking like glue to his original film, which exposes the franchise’s timelessness in a way. In case you have always wanted to see a version of Toothless living, breathing, and swallowing fish somewhere in the real world (on screen), the live-action version is a treat. — K.P.

Director: Andy Goldsworthy
by Jason Robbins

Starring: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gerard Butler, and Ruth Codd.

Where you can watch: How to Train Your Dragon hits Peacock Oct. 10.

14- Lurker

Written and directed by Alex Russell, Lurker is All About Eve for the influencer generation. It is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a young man, Matthew (Theodore Pellerin,) who is a retailer in LA, yet hopes to become famous and wealthy. Thus, when he runs into an up-and-coming music celebrity, Oliver (Archie Madekwe), he manipulates his way into the circle of Oliver. This provides him with a glimpse of the good life he desires. And he will do anything to retain it.

A gnarly thriller with a keen awareness of the double-edged sword of social media, Lurker will lock you in and leave you sweating. — K.P.

Director: Theodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Wale Onayemi, Daniel Zolghadri, and Sunny Suljic.

Where you can watch: Lurker hits MUBI Oct. 10.

15- The Chair Company

Tim Robinson brings his anxiety-inducing brand of cringe comedy to HBO with The Chair Company, which he co-created with writing partner Zach Kanin (I Think You Should Leave). Robinson stars as Ron Trosper, an ordinary man who has a good family and a new, exciting prospect at work. However, when he suffers a humiliating accident at his workplace, that is all he can think about. He is convinced that there is more to the incident than meets the eye, and thus, he goes down a rabbit hole of shady characters and conspiracy theories.

The Chair Company is chock-full of typical absurdist Robinson humor, with several bizarro tangents that would be right at home on I Think You Should Leave. It is also an interesting depiction of obsession, but it also takes the shame of remembering and becoming obsessed with a humiliating memory and makes it worse. For any Robinson fans, The Chair Company is a must-watch. — B.E.

Director: Tim Robinson, Lake Bell, Sophia Lillis, Will Price, and Joseph Tudisco.

Where you can watch: The Chair Company premieres Sunday, Oct. 12 at 10 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.

16- The Substance

This freaky fable of fame and beauty is one of the purest, wildest films ever made by writer/director Coralie Fargeat. Demi Moore plays the role of faded Hollywood star Elisabeth Sparkle, who is being harassed out of her televised workout show by a sexist producer (Dennis Quaid) desperate to find someone younger and hotter to take her place.

Well, a new miracle drug called “the Substance” promises Elisabeth a second chance at success, transforming her into the vibrant and viciously ambitious Sue (Margaret Qualley). The only problem is that, being as they are connected, they must alternate in being in the world. Elisabeth is confronted with terrible outcomes as Sue struggles to get more. Something’s gotta give, and when it does, the practical effects from The Substance’s Oscar-winning make-up team will absolutely shock and awe you.

Nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Actress for Moore, and Best Picture, The Substance is the rare movie that played well to the Academy and to midnight movie crowds. It’s a true knockout. –K.P.

Director: Peter Farelli
|Hollywood|>Cast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid.

Where you can watch: The Substance hits HBO Max Oct. 10.