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October is here and Showmax has it all \u2013 classic vampires, werewolves and zombies. Haunted houses, axe maniacs, ghost faced killers, clowns, demon dolls, techno terrors, creepy kids. You name it, we\u2019ve spooked it. Get ready for 31 days of darkness for the whole family\u2026because we have tricks and treats for the kids, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming to the Showmax cemetery this October<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Shake the dice and buff those character stats! Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves is the movie of D&D players\u2019 dreams, as well as being a good time for general viewers, and for effects and monster lovers \u2013 as creatures from the Monstrous Manual are lovingly brought to life including red, gold and black dragons, an owlbear, a beholder, a gelatinous cube, and a displacer beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This charming, funny fantasy adventure follows a motley crew on a quest to retrieve magic knickknacks and trinkets, wake the dead for question time, do battle in a gladiatorial tournament, and rise to their heroic destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed and co-written by the BAFTA-nominated team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves has a 91% critics\u2019 rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with IndieWire predicting, \u201cThe heartfelt story, enchanting characters, dazzling visual effects, and fun-filled nature will [make it] a treasured classic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cast includes Chris Pine (Wonder Woman, Don\u2019t Worry Darling) as the bard Edgin Darvis. Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious franchise) as Holga the barbarian, Reg\u00e9-Jean Page (Bridgerton) as Xenk the paladin, Justice Smith (Tim in Pok\u00e9mon: Detective Pikachu) as Simon the half-elf sorcerer, Sophia Lillis (It Chapter 1) as tiefling druid Doric, Hugh Grant (The Undoing, Notting Hill) as Forge the rogue, and Bradley Cooper (Yes Man) as Holga\u2019s halfling ex-husband!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves from Monday, 9 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on SAMDB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chucky S3<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fresh off the toy rack (the season launches in the US on 4 October), this slasher comedy horror series about a doll possessed by a dead serial killer sees Chucky (Brad Dourif) take a stab at politics. The President of the United States James Collins (Devon Sawa) sets Chucky loose in the White House when his son insists that it\u2019s Take My Doll To Work Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chucky was nominated for Best Horror Series at this year\u2019s Critics Choice Super Awards, with Brad Dourif up for Best Villain in a Series as the title character. With a 91% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and an 87% audience rating, critics and fans alike are obsessed with Chucky\u2019s creative kills and meta horror commentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chucky\u2019s not the only one making a comeback, the OG gang\u2019s all here including Jennifer Tilly as Chucky\u2019s ex-turned-enemy Tiffany Valentine, Zackary Arthur as Jake Wheeler, Bjorgvin Arnarson as Devon Evans, Alyvia Alyn Lind as Lexy Cross, and Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch Chucky S3 from 23 October. 2 new episodes each Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scream VI<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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The core four survivors of the Ghostface Murders leave Woodsboro to start new lives in New York City. In a city of eight million people, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) \u2013 the daughter of the OG Ghostface Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) \u2013 her sister Tara (Wednesday\u2019s Jenna Ortega), and twins Chad (Mason Goodin) and Mindy Meeks Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown, the teen Taissa in Yellowjackets), whose uncle was horror film buff Randy Meeks, should be safe, right? Wrong. Ghostface is leaving a calling card at each Big Apple crime scene \u2013 an original mask from their earlier killing sprees. Reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) and film geek turned FBI agent Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere) must unpick modern horror conventions to work out what Ghostface is up to this time. PS: Need caller ID? Roger Jackson returns as \u201cThe Voice\u201d of Ghostface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Named Best Movie of 2023 at the MTV Movie Awards, Scream VI is the #20 biggest global box office hit of 2023 so far. It won Best Fight at the MTV Movie Awards for Courteney Cox, and nabbed a nomination for Best Song for Demi Lovato\u2019s Still Alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AV Club says it\u2019s \u201cone of the franchise’s best (and most brutal) sequels\u201d, while Independent (UK) calls it \u201cwholly satisfying and ridiculously fun,\u201d giving it a 4\/5-star rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch Scream VI from Monday, 30 October.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Scream VI on SAMDB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cocaine Bear<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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There\u2019s nothing more peaceful than a walk in the woods, unless you run into a bear who\u2019s off her rocker on 34kg of cocaine, thanks to a drug plane shedding its cargo in delicious, bite-sized bricks. Everyone in the forest, from hikers to rangers, the police and mobsters frantically trying to find the rest of the drug shipment, is on the pic-a-nic menu. This movie \u2013 loosely based on a true story and not at all based on physics \u2013 absolutely delivers on the bonkers promise of its title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cocaine Bear was nominated for two 2023 MTV Movie Awards: Most Frightened Performance for Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell in Modern Family) and Best Villain for The Bear (stuntman Allan Henry performed the bear\u2019s movements as a reference for a team of animators). Chicago Sun-Times calls it a \u201cwildly entertaining and darkly hilarious B-movie blood-fest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Emmy-nominated actor and filmmaker Elizabeth Banks (Charlie\u2019s Angels, Pitch Perfect 2), with The Americans stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys (Perry Mason), Margo Martindale, O\u2019Shea Jackson, Jr (Straight Outta Compton), Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kristofer Hivju (Tormund Giantsbane in Game of Thrones), and the late Ray Liotta (The Many Saints of Newark).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Cocaine Bear on SAMDB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch Cocaine Bear from Thursday, 19 October.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching & waiting\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spookily South African<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Awards shows are notoriously stingy when it comes to horror and science fiction, but Showmax is home to two of the biggest SAFTA winners in this genre over the past two years: Gaia (2023 SAFTAS for Best Feature Film, Directing, Cinematography, and Original Music\/Score) and Fried Barry (2022 SAFTAS for Sound Design and Original Score).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaia<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Two off-the-grid survivalists (Silwerskerm winner Carel Nel from 4 Mure and SAFTA nominee Alex van Dyk from Die Stropers) save a forest ranger (SAFTA nominee Monique Rockman from Nommer 37) who\u2019s injured during a routine mission. But what starts out as a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set in the Tsitsikamma National Park, 2023 Best Feature Film SAFTA winner Gaia is a breakthrough for Jaco Bouwer, who won the 2023 Feature Film Best Director SAFTA, which now shares the shelf with his 2022 Best TV Drama SAFTAs for 4 Mure, a five-part kykNET series set in the same hotel room, but with different stories in different genres each episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as racking up a Best Cinematography SAFTA, Gaia won Best Cinematography at South By Southwest (SXSW) as well as Best Film, Director, Editor, Sound Design and Hair and Make Up at Silwerskerm, and the best Original Music\/Score SAFTA, as well as the Best Feature Film award at the 2023 SAFTAs. The ecological horror has a 85% critics\u2019 rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Decider hailing it as \u201ca standout at South By Southwest\u201d and describing the film as a \u201cpsychedelic-mushroom Cronenberg-via-del-Toro eco-body-horror creepy-creature freakout \u2026 visually potent \u2026 strange, beautiful and disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Gaia on SAMDB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fried Barry<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Barry (stuntman Gary Green) is a drug-addled degenerate who \u2013 after yet another bender \u2013 is abducted by aliens. Soon Barry is riding shotgun in his own body as an alien visitor assumes control and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics the world over were positively foaming at the mouth over Fried Barry, which was Rotten Tomatoes\u2019 10th best-reviewed sci-fi and fantasy movie of 2021, with an 80% critics\u2019 rating. In their five-star review, ComicBook.com hailed Fried Barry as \u201cthe most demented movie of the year\u2026 one of the most memorable, visually arresting, and unique movies I\u2019ve seen in ages,\u201d adding that Green gives \u201cthe best alien-in-a-human-body performance since Vincent D\u2019Onofrio in Men in Black.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax: <\/strong>Dam S1-2 (cult & monsters), Pulse S1 (rogue tech), Die Spreeus S1 (paranormal detectives), Monster in My Kas (monster stalks child), Pinky Pinky (molestation monster), Nagval op Donkerdraai (period ghost thriller), Die Ontwaking (slasher), Kutsa (ghost), The Unfamiliar (evil spirits), Triggered (gore), Parable (demon), Rage (slasher), Her Mask (evil spirits), Eternity (vampires), The Tokoloshe (evil spirits), Vinnie + Olga (vampires), Vampires in the Township (vampires), Net Ons (vampires), Nag van die Ondier (monster), Nagvrees (ghost), Vrywater (cult), Wesens (alien), Boetie Ontmoet \u2019n Alien (alien), Chappie (alien), and District 9 (alien).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Fried Barry on SAMDB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zombies<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Last of Us<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the most anticipated streaming titles of 2023, HBO\u2019s The Last of Us is set 20 years after modern civilisation has been destroyed by a fungal pandemic. Joel (Critics Choice Super Award winner Pedro Pascal from Game of Thrones and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) is hired to smuggle 14-year-old Ellie (BAFTA winner Bella Ramsey from Game of Thrones) out of an oppressive quarantine zone. But what starts as a small job becomes a brutal journey as the pair traverse the US, depending on each other for survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the computer game of the same name (many of the voice cast reprise their roles), the series is written and executive produced by Emmy winner Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann from The Last of Us and Uncharted computer game franchises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Last of Us has racked up multiple Primetime Emmy nominations (winners will be announced on 15 January 2024) including Outstanding Drama Series, Lead Actor and Lead Actress. And it has already brought home 10 wins from other awards, including the Humanitas Prize for Drama Teleplay, the Leo for Best Costume Design in a Dramatic Series, and Best Show, Best Hero, Breakthrough Performance and Best Duo at the MTV Movie and TV Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series has a 96% Rotten tomatoes rating with their critics\u2019 consensus being, \u201cRetaining the most addictive aspects of its beloved source material while digging deeper into the story, The Last of Us is binge-worthy TV that ranks among the all-time greatest video game adaptations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obsessed horror fans can also find the in-depth documentary The Making of The Last of Us<\/a> on Showmax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> The Dead Don\u2019t Die, UnHuman, Dead Zone, Black Friday, Alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tech terrors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

M3GAN<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that\u2019s programmed to be a child\u2019s greatest companion and a parent\u2019s greatest ally. When its designer, Gemma, becomes the unexpected caretaker of her eight-year-old niece, Cady, she decides to pair the girl with a M3GAN prototype, a decision that has terrifying consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about M3gan on SAMDB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> Polaroid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evil spirits<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

S<\/strong><\/a>m<\/a><\/strong>ile<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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One of the creepiest films on the menu! Trauma leads to terror when a smiling patient commits suicide in front of therapist Dr Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon, Mare of Easttown) \u2013 after telling her that she\u2019s being followed by something that she describes as, \u201cIt looks like people, but it\u2019s not a person.\u201d As Rose looks into the story, though, she starts to doubt her own sanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> Seance, Malignant, Demonic, Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin, The Cleansing Hour, Becoming, Blood Conscious, Shadow in the Cloud, Slender Man (from 26 October)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Smile on SAMDB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aliens<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Resident Alien S1-2<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alan Tudyk (Hoban \u201cWash\u201d Washburne in Firefly and Serenity) plays a grumpy, ancient alien trying to pass as a small-town human doctor while he tries to decide whether he should go through with his secret mission to wipe out humanity in this inventive horror comedy series created by Chris Sheridan (Family Guy, Resident Alien) and based on the comic book of the same name by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> The Midwich Cuckoos S1, What Lies Below, Nope, Significant Other, A Quiet Place, Alien Conquest, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and Occupation: Rainfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creature features<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 1968 in America, but the sleepy small town of Mill Valley seems stuck in the past as it cowers in the shadow of the Bellows mansion on the outskirts of town. Within its walls, Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories in a book that has transcended time, ready to terrorise a group of teenagers who go poking around the supposedly haunted mansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak) and director Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal (Trollhunter) turned their dark imaginations and eye for the gothic grotesque to bringing the iconic book series \u2013 whose illustration of spiders popping out of a cheek boil tends to linger \u2013 to screen in eye-watering detail, winning Best Horror\/Thriller Film at the National Film and Television Awards in the USA. It\u2019s aimed at younger horror fans, but The Rotten Tomatoes critics\u2019 consensus is that it\u2019s a \u201cghoulish good time\u201d, with NME calling it \u201cdisturbing enough to scratch even the most seasoned genre buff’s itch\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Austin Abrams (Ethan in Euphoria), Dean Norris (Hank in Breaking Bad), and Lorraine Toussaint (Aunt Vi in The Equalizer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> Carnivale S1-2, Lovecraft Country S1, Teen Wolf S1-6, Los Espookys S1, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Escape the Field, Bad Hair, Pacific Rim, Snakes on a Plane, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Dominion, Kong: Skull Island, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Journey 2 the Mysterious Island, Lake Placid (from 5 October), Crawl (from 23 October).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slashers & cult creeps<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bodies, Bodies, Bodies<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A group of rich 20-somethings, a remote family mansion, a hurricane party, and one party game gone very, very wrong\u2026now someone\u2019s going to have to wash blood out of the sofas and curtains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not released in South African cinemas, Bodies Bodies Bodies has an 86% critics\u2019 rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics\u2019 consensus is that it\u2019s impeccably cast and smartly written. Entertainment Weekly calls it, \u201cSummer\u2019s must-see horror comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> Midsommar, Halloween (2018), Halloween Ends, Scream V, Candyman, The Domestics, Barbarians, Follow Me, Ma, Don\u2019t Breathe, Meet the Blacks, Extracurricular, Split, Alone in the Dark, Twisted House Sitter, Hostel (from 12 October), Haunted Trail (from 23 October), and I Know What You Did Last Summer (from 26 October).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clowns<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

IT Chapter 1<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A stellar young cast brings the first part of Stephen King\u2019s IT to terrifying life as a close-knit group of seven outcast and bullied young teens encounter Pennywise (Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd), the evil alien clown who feeds on fear in their town\u2019s haunted house. It\u2019s 1980s flashback time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Teen Choice nominees Sophia Lillis (Gretel & Hansel) as Beverly, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) as Richie, Jeremy Ray Taylor (Are You Afraid of the Dark?) as Ben, Chosen Jacobs as Mike, Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie, Wyett Oleff (I Am Not Okay with This) as Stan, and Jaeden Martell (Knives Out) as Bill. The young performers won Best On-Screen Team at the MTV Movie & TV Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Body snatchers & doppelgangers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t Worry Darling<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Florence Pugh (Midsomar) and Harry Styles (Dunkirk) star in Don\u2019t Worry Darling as Alice and Jack, a picture-perfect 1950s couple living in an idyllic company town filled with Stepford Wives and their Ken-style husbands. But their utopia may not be all it seems, and Alice soon begins to worry that her husband\u2019s glamorous company could be hiding disturbing secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This psychological thriller is directed by Olivia Wilde (House). The London Evening Standard says, \u201cWilde (who dazzles in a supporting role) is a misunderstood genius and her sly erotic thriller is one of the best films of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> Get Out, Us, Elizabeth Harvest, The Outsider S1, and The Visitor (from Thursday, 12 October).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Don’t Worry Darling on SAMDB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghosts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Crimson Peak<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Guillermo del Toro\u2019s eye-meltingly beautiful film is a gothic romance steeped in horror. In the late 1800s, a British nobleman (Tom Hiddleston, Kong: Skull Island) seduces an American heiress (Mia Wasikowska, Alice in Wonderland) and ghost story writer, and whisks her away to live with him and his sister (Jessica Chastain, Scenes from a Marriage) in their crumbling haunted mansion\u2026but not for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> Voice from the Stone, Blithe Spirit, Last Night in Soho, Shutter Island (from 9 October)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vampires<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vampire Academy S1<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fantasy horror single-season series Vampire Academy centres on Lissa, a royal vampire, and her protector, Rose, as they navigate romance, ancient magic and their strikingly different social classes at their boarding school, St Vladimir\u2019s Academy, all while facing threats like the bloodthirsty, undead strigoi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Peacock Original is based on the bestselling young adult novel series by multi-award-winning author Richelle Mead, and is the second adaptation of the novels following the 2014 film of the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> Let the Right One In S1, True Blood S1-7, A Discovery of Witches S1-3, Chapelwaite S1, Morbius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creepy kids<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Baby<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Baby stars Michelle De Swarte (The Duchess) as 38-year-old Natasha, whose life implodes dramatically when she is unexpectedly landed with a baby. Controlling, manipulative but incredibly cute, the baby twists Natasha\u2019s life into a surreal horror show. As she discovers the true extent of the baby\u2019s deadly nature, Natasha makes increasingly desperate attempts to get rid of it. She doesn\u2019t want the baby, but the baby definitely wants her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> The Curse of Rosalie (from 30 October).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horror comedy & spooky satire<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Dead Don\u2019t Die<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Oh noooo! Polar fracking has pulled the Earth off its axis and earlier generations aren\u2019t just spinning in their graves, they\u2019re on the march in small-town USA. The local sheriff\u2019s office is vexed and perplexed in this dry as bones horror comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dead Don\u2019t Die won Best Makeup FX at the 2020 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, while Jim Jarmusch was nominated for a Palme D\u2019Or at Cannes in 2019. \u201cHis experimentation with genre filmmaking adds fresh ideas to expected ones, and gives the film lover moments of pure joy,\u201d writes the Canberra Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Showmax:<\/strong> Bodies, Bodies Bodies, Bad Hair, Black Friday, The Baby, M3GAN, Meet the Blacks, Fried Barry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Magicians S1-5<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hogwarts was dangerous but fun. Imagine what a wizarding university would be like! In the fantasy drama series based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Lev Grossman, students at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy find out that a fantasy world from the Fillory and Further books they read as kids is real\u2026as are its monsters, like the moth-covered, six-fingered magician known as The Beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also watch: <\/strong>Good Witch S1-7, York Witches Society, Witches in the Woods, Gretel & Hansel, The Reckoning, the Harry Potter collection, the Fantastic Beasts collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showmax quick flicks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Peele: <\/strong>Us, Get Out, Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guillermo Del Toro: <\/strong>Crimson Peak, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen King:<\/strong> It Chapter 1, The Outsider, Chapelwaite S1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about horror on Showmax<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the baby bats (KIDS Halloween)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looming soon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tad, the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get ready to journey across the world with the most ambitious (and clumsy) adventurer of all time in the award-winning Spanish-made animated movie Tad, the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a slight blunder destroys a rare sarcophagus, an ancient spell is unleashed. Now, Chicago bricklayer-turned-archaeologist Tad Jones must team up with his friends Sara and his \u201coldest pal\u201d Mummy to race across the far corners of the Earth and stop the curse of the Emerald Tablet before things get really out of hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch <\/strong>Tad, the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet<\/strong><\/a> from Friday, 6 October.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching & waiting<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve grouped our spooky stories into gangs for the little ghouls, along with a suitable age rating for each show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghoul school<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n