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New on Amazon Prime Video in October 2020

Want to know which new movies, TV shows, and originals are streaming on Amazon Prime Video this month? Read on...

by Jean Bentley | September 28, 2020

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Updated October 2, 2020

It’s officially spooky season, and Amazon Prime Video is getting into the spirit with its “Welcome to the Blumhouse” series of four original horror films, starring a variety of talent including Phylicia Rashad, Peter Sarsgaard, Sarita Choudhury, and Sydney Sweeney. Black Box, The Lie, Evil Eye, and Nocturne all premiere throughout October.

Joining those films on Amazon Prime Video are a special filmed presentation of the Tony-nominated Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me, the latest Savage X Fenty fashion show from Rihanna, and the eight-part supernatural comedy series Truth Seekers from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Films hitting the streaming service in October include action films like Quantum of Solace and The Da Vinci Code, rom coms like A Knight’s Tale and The Wedding Planner, and Oscar-winning films Funny Girl, The Pianist, The Departed, and Girl, Interrupted.

Keep reading to find out what else is new on Amazon Prime Video in October, including new on-demand titles like holiday treat The Craft: Legacy and disaster film Greenland with some highlights noted at the top.

HIGHLIGHTS

Black Box (2012)
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Description: After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an agonizing experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

Premiere Date: October 6

Greenland (2020)
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Description: The film follows a family (Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roger Dale Floyd) as they struggle for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.

Premiere Date: available to buy on October 7 and to rent on October 27

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
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Description: A follow-up to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan sees Sacha Baron Cohen return to his prankster role as a documentary filmmaker exploring the wonders of American culture in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Premiere Date: October 23

The Craft: Legacy (2020)
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Description: A sequel to the 1996 movie The Craft, the film follows a group of high school students that form a coven of witches and stars Cailee Spaeny (Pacific Rim: Uprising), Gideon Adlon (Blockers), Lovie Simone (Selah and the Spades), Zoey Luna (Pose), and Nicholas Galitzine (Share), with Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible franchise), and David Duchovny (The X-Files).

Premiere Date: Available to buy or rent October 27

Truth Seekers: Season 1 (2020)
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Description: Co-created by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Truth Seekers is an eight-part supernatural comedy series about a group of part-time paranormal investigators who team up to uncover and film ghost sightings across the UK, sharing their adventures on an online channel for all to see. However, as they stake out haunted churches, underground bunkers, and abandoned hospitals with their array of homemade ghost-detecting gizmos, their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, more terrifying and even deadly, as they begin to uncover a deeper conspiracy.

Premiere Date: October 30

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$ NEWLY AVAILABLE TO RENT/BUY ON AMAZON VIDEO
* AMAZON ORIGINALS

Available 10/1

Movies

Tomatometer icon 50% 30 Days of Night (2007)

Tomatometer icon 59% A Knight's Tale (2001)

Tomatometer icon 3% Battlefield Earth (2000)

Tomatometer icon 54% Blood Ties (2013)

Tomatometer icon 97% Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Eight Millimeter (1999)

Tomatometer icon 95% Funny Girl (1968)

Tomatometer icon 53% Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Tomatometer icon 41% Guess Who (2005)

Tomatometer icon 87% Joe (2013)

Tomatometer icon 43% John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)

Tomatometer icon 10% Killers (2010)

Tomatometer icon 90% Kindred Spirits (2019)


Tomatometer icon 37% Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)

Tomatometer icon 97% Mud (2013)

Tomatometer icon 11% National Security (2003)

Tomatometer icon - - Next Level (2019)

Tomatometer icon - - Noose for a Gunman (1960)

Tomatometer icon 64% Nurse (2014)

Tomatometer icon 63% Quantum of Solace (2008)

Tomatometer icon 92% Raging Bull (1980)

Tomatometer icon - - Senorita Justice (2003)

Tomatometer icon 92% Southside With You (2016)

Tomatometer icon 52% Spaceballs (1987)

Tomatometer icon 42% Species (1995)

Tomatometer icon 50% Thanks for Sharing (2012)

Tomatometer icon 41% The Big Hit (1998)

Tomatometer icon 25% The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Tomatometer icon 91% The Departed (2006)

The Gambler Wore A Gun (1961)

Tomatometer icon - - The Grudge 3 (2009)

Tomatometer icon 86% The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Tomatometer icon 52% The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Tomatometer icon 95% The Pianist (2002)

Tomatometer icon 17% The Wedding Planner (2001)

Tomatometer icon 63% Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

Series

1 Channels sampling: the first season of these subscription-channel series are available to Prime members this month.

Sons of the Soil: Season 1 *
1992: Berlusconi Rising: Season 1 (Topic)1
40 & Single: Season 1 (Urban Movie Channel)1
America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump: Season 1 (PBS Documentaries)1
Cisco Kid: Season (Best Westerns Ever)1
Cities of the Underworld: Season 1 (HISTORY Vault)1
Cold Case Files Classic: Season 1 (A&E Crime Central)1
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (Shudder)1

Tomatometer icon 58% Liar: Season 1 (2017) (Sundance Now)1

Tomatometer icon 91% Mrs Wilson: Season 1 (2018) (PBS Masterpiece)1

Tomatometer icon 100% Mystery Road: Season 1 (2018) (Acorn TV)1

PNS Kids: Spooky Stories!: Season 1 (PBS Kids)1
Tales of Tomorrow: Season 1 (Best TV Ever)1
The Great British Baking Show: Season 1 (PBS Living)1

Tomatometer icon 55% The Loudest Voice: Season 1 (2019) (Showtime)1

Thou Shalt Not Kill: Season 1 (PBS Masterpiece)1

Available 10/2

Tomatometer icon 78% 12 Hour Shift (2020) $

Tomatometer icon - - Bug Diaries Halloween Special*

Savage X Fenty Show. Vol. 2*

Available 10/6

Tomatometer icon - - Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020) $

Tomatometer icon 96% Spontaneous (2020) $

Tomatometer icon 72% Black Box (2020) *

Tomatometer icon 44% The Lie (2018) *

Tomatometer icon 16% The Transporter Refueled (2015)

Tomatometer icon 96% Mr. Robot: Season 4 (2019)

Available 10/8

Tomatometer icon 78% Archive (2020)

Available 10/9

Tomatometer icon 24% The Doorman (2020) $

Tomatometer icon 70% Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Chasing the Crown: Dreamers to Streamers*

Available 10/10

Tomatometer icon 3% Jack and Jill (2011)

Available 10/11

Tomatometer icon - - Ben 10 vs. The Universe: The Movie (2020) $

Available 10/13

Batman: Death in the Family (2020) $

Tomatometer icon 57% Fatima (2020) $

Tomatometer icon 77% Greenland (2020) $

Tomatometer icon 43% Evil Eye (2020) *

Tomatometer icon 62% Nocturne (2020) *

Available 10/14

Tomatometer icon 100% A Most Beautiful Thing (2020)

Available 10/15

Halal Love Story (2020)

Tomatometer icon 24% Playing With Fire (2019)

Available 10/16

Tomatometer icon 90% Kajillionaire (2020) $

Tomatometer icon 94% Love and Monsters (2020) $

Tomatometer icon 98% Time (2020)

What the Constitution Means to Me*

Available 10/21

Tomatometer icon 80% Cyrano, My Love (2018)

Available 10/23

Tomatometer icon 85% Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Available 10/26

Tomatometer icon 23% What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)

Available 10/27

Tomatometer icon 37% Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Tomatometer icon 47% The Craft: Legacy (2020) $

Available 10/29

Soorarai Pottru (2020)

Available 10/30

Tomatometer icon 77% Truth Seekers: Season 1 (2020) *

Available 10/31

Tomatometer icon 93% I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

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