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New on Hulu in October 2020

Horror anthology Monsterland and Marvel TV series Helstrom are the Hulu Original Series headed to the streaming service in October.

by Jean Bentley | October 19, 2020

TAGGED AS: Comedy, Drama, Hulu, movies, streaming, television, TV

Hulu is preparing for Halloween by adding a slew of scary movies for the month of October. But there’s also plenty of original fare headed to the streaming service this month.

Star-studded horror anthology series Monsterland, based on Nathan Ballingrud’s “North American Lake Monsters,” hits Hulu on October 2. It’ll be joined by another Hulu Original series, Helstrom, later in the month. That title is the streaming service’s latest collaboration with Marvel, telling the story of the son and daughter of a mysterious and powerful serial killer.

Other additions include Terminator: Dark Fate, the final season of Homeland, and the fall TV premieres hitting ABC and NBC this month. Read on to find out what else is headed to the streamer and what’s leaving in October.

HIGHLIGHTS

Monsterland: Season 1 (2020)

83%

Description: Encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in Monsterland, an anthology series based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud’s “North American Lake Monsters.”

Premiere Date: October 2

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

70%

Description: Decades after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet. Humanity’s fate hangs in the balance in this action-packed thrill ride.

Critics Consensus: Terminator: Dark Fate represents a significant upgrade over its immediate predecessors, even if it lacks the thrilling firepower of the franchise’s best installments.

Premiere Date: October 9

Marvel's Helstrom: Season 1 (2020)

27%

Description: As the son and daughter of a mysterious and powerful serial killer, Helstrom follows Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana Helstrom (Sydney Lemmon), and their complicated dynamic, as they track down the worst of humanity — each with their own attitude and skills.

Premiere Date: October 16

Homeland: Season 8 (2020)

85%

Description: The final season of Homeland finds Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) recovering from months of brutal confinement in a Russian gulag. Her body is healing, but her memory remains fractured – which is a problem for Saul (Mandy Patinkin), now National Security Advisor to the newly ascendant President Warner (Beau Bridges).

Critics Consensus: Homeland returns to form with a tautly thrilling final season that fittingly finishes the job Carrie Mathison started all those years ago.

Premiere Date: October 26

Full List of Shows and Movies Coming to Hulu in SEPTEMBER

Available 10/1

Series

- - 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days: Season 4 (2020) (TLC)

- - 90 Day Fiancé: Season 7 (2019) (TLC)

All-Star Halloween Spectacular: Special (Food Network)
Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern: Complete Seasons 9 & 10 (Travel Channel)
Bride Killa: Complete Season 1 (ID)

- - Cutthroat Kitchen: Season 13 (2016) (Food Network)

- - Dr. Pimple Popper: Season 4 (2019) (TLC)

Going for Sold: Complete Season 1 (HGTV)
Guy’s Grocery Games: Complete Seasons 18 – 20 (Food Network)
Halloween Baking Championship: Complete Seasons 1 – 4 (Food Network)
Halloween Wars: Complete Seasons 3 – 8 (Food Network)
Hell’s Kitchen: Complete Season 18 (ITV)
Homicide City: Charlotte: Complete Season 1 (ID)
Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda: Complete Season 9 (ID)
Man with a Van: Complete Season 1 (ID)
Moonshiners: Master Distiller: Complete Season 1 (Discovery)
Murder Comes Home: Complete Season 1 (ID)
My 600-lb Life: Complete Season 8 (TLC)
My Feet Are Killing Me: Complete Season 1 (TLC)
Property Virgins: Complete Season 18 (HGTV)
Supermarket Stakeout: Complete Season 1 (Food Network)
Sweet 15: Quinceañera: Complete Season 1 (TLC)
The Flay List: Complete Season 1 (Food Network)
Twisted Love: Complete Season 1 (ID)

Movies

48% 31 (2016)

74% A Beautiful Mind (2001)

83% Across the Line (2015)

24% After.Life (2009)

23% Antitrust (2001)

59% Blade (1998)

57% Blade II (2002)

24% Blade: Trinity (2004)

54% Blood Ties (2013)

0% Blue City (1986)

9% The Curse of Downers Grove (2015)

60% Deep Blue Sea (1999)

78% The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012)

- - Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993)

97% Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

- - The Executioners (2017)

63% The Express (2008)

22% The Eye (2008)

43% Fallen (1998)

25% Girls Against Boys (2012)

94% Good Hair (2009)

41% Guess Who (2005)

60% Hostel (2005)

44% Hostel Part II (2007)

22% House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

96% The Hurt Locker (2008)

56% Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

66% Interview With the Vampire (1994)

87% Joe (2013)

77% Judy & Punch (2019)

41% Kicking & Screaming (2005)

10% Killers (2010)

20% Lady in a Cage (1964)

80% Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

9% Martyrs (2015)

97% Mud (2013)

64% Nurse (2014)

87% The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)

48% The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

38% The Quiet Ones (2014)

92% Raging Bull (1980)

- - The Sandman (2017)

- - Senorita Justice (2003)

- - Sk8 Dawg (2018)

- - The Skull (1965)

69% Snakes on a Plane (2006)

52% Spaceballs (1987)

42% Species (1995)

88% Superbad (2007)

50% Thanks for Sharing (2012)

63% Triumph of the Spirit (1989)

- - Vampire (2011)

58% Wayne's World 2 (1993)

8% When a Stranger Calls (2006)

74% William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1996)

- - Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard (2015)

Available 10/2

83% Monsterland: Season 1 (2020)

Connecting: Series Premiere (NBC)

Available 10/3

Ma Ma (2015)

Available 10/4

70% Saturday Night Live: Season 46 (2020) Premiere (NBC)

Available 10/5

87% Dragon Ball Super New Episodes 1 – 131 (DUBBED) (Toei)

Available 10/7

20% Books of Blood (2020)

Ellen’s Game of Games: Season 4 Premiere (NBC)

64% NEXT: Season 1 (2020)

Available 10/8

61% Scream 4 (2011)

Available 10/9

70% Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Available 10/11

21% Infamous (2020)

- - Savage Youth (2018)

67% Scotch: A Golden Dream (2018)

Available 10/12

- - The Swing of Things (2020)

Available 10/14

- - The Bachelorette: Season 16 (2020)

Available 10/15

- - The Purge: Season 2 (2019) (USA)

50% Treadstone: Season 1 (2019) (USA)

- - Bad Roomies (2014)

- - High Strung (1991)

60% It Came From the Desert (2017)

Life After Basketball (2019)

24% Playing With Fire (2019)

- - The Escort (2015)

Available 10/16

27% Marvel's Helstrom: Season 1 (2020)

81% The Painted Bird (2019)

Available 10/17

Shark Tank: Season 12 Premiere (ABC)
Momma Named Me Sheriff: Complete Season 1 (Adult Swim)
Mr. Pickles: Finale Episode (Adult Swim)

Available 10/18

17% Unfriend (2016)

Available 10/19

America’s Funniest Home Videos: Season 31 Premiere (ABC)

- - Card Sharks: Season 1 (2019) Premiere (ABC)

- - Supermarket Sweep: Season 1 (2019) Premiere (ABC)

- - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Season 2 (2020) Premiere (ABC)

Available 10/20

- - The Voice: Season 19 (2020) Premiere (NBC)

F*ck That’s Delicious: Complete Season 4 (Vice)

Available 10/21

80% Cyrano, My Love (2018)

100% black-ish: Season 7 (2020) Premiere (ABC)

100% The Conners: Season 3 (2020) Premiere (ABC)

- - The Goldbergs: Season 8 (2020) Premiere (ABC)

Available 10/23

62% Bad Hair (2020)

95% Superstore: Season 6 (2020) Premiere (NBC)

Available 10/26

85% Homeland: Season 8 (2020)

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

Available 10/29

American Housewife: Season 5 Premiere (ABC)

TV SHOWS AND MOVIES LEAVING Hulu THIS MONTH

Leaving 10/31

48% 31 (2016)

58% 52 Pick-Up (1986)

37% A Good Woman (2004)

24% After.Life (2009)

12% An American Haunting (2005)

88% Eye for an Eye (2019)

51% Any Given Sunday (1999)

53% Australia (2008)

80% The Bellboy (1960)

24% Blade: Trinity (2004)

74% The Bounty (1984)

88% The Brothers McMullen (1995)

43% Bug (1975)

- - Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)

10% Cheech & Chong Still Smokin' (1983)

50% Cinderfella (1960)

9% The Curse of Downers Grove (2015)

85% Downhill Racer (1969)

- - The Executioners (2017)

55% Footloose (1984)

84% Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

25% Girls Against Boys (2012)

33% Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)

100% Gloria (2013)

71% Hellraiser (1987)

60% Hostel (2005)

44% Hostel Part II (2007)

39% Hot Rod (2007)

81% The Impossible (2012)

52% Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

86% Life of Pi (2012)

60% The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

87% Margin Call (2011)

9% Martyrs (2015)

85% Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

82% The Patsy (1964)

88% The Pawnbroker (1964)

50% Phase IV (1974)

- - Granny's Home (2019)

38% The Quiet Ones (2014)

72% Red (2010)

- - The Sandman (2017)

24% Sleeping With the Enemy (1991)

21% Sliver (1993)

52% Spaceballs (1987)

61% Stuck on You (2003)

85% The Tenant (1976)

90% The Terminator (1984)

- - Trapped Model (2019)

- - Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story (2019)

48% Twilight (2008)

28% The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

46% The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

26% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)

49% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)

9% Ultraviolet (2006)

- - Vampire (2011)

- - Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter (2019)

77% Walking Tall (1973)

8% When a Stranger Calls (2006)

- - Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard (2015)

Featured image photo credit: Barbara Nitke/Hulu

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