A Dog’s Horror: Good Boy and the New Direction of Fear

Plus, what to watch for and where to find the movie goods this October...

October 04, 2025

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  • IT’S OCTOBER, DUH!

    Best time of the year. And if you haven’t already, time to get horror movies on the calendar—stat!

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  • STREAM DREAMS

    Shudder’s curating like a video store clerk with a PhD — stacking its October lineup with smart, weird, and deeply informed picks. You get crowd-pleasers like V/H/S/Halloween alongside left-field finds like House on Eden and The Demon Disorder, plus live Last Drive-In double features that feel hand-picked by someone who knows every VHS spine by heart. It’s horror fandom curated with both brains and bloodlust.

    Tubi has officially cornered the sleaze, streaming like it’s still 42nd Street at 2 a.m. Its October lineup is stacked with grindhouse gore and exploitation gold: I Spit On Your Grave, Sleepaway Camp, Motel Hell, and a rotation of low-budget originals.

    Netflix goes full ghoul this October with its true-crime horror push. Monster: The Ed Gein Story. This prestige-level deep dive into America’s most infamous grave robber is joined by The Butcher of Kingsbury Run and The Texas Killing Fields: Unearthed. It’s horror dressed in documentary clothing.

    Every app’s hustling for your fear dollar, and honestly, it’s kind of beautiful.

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    The Dog Sees Everything: Horror’s New Point of View

    This October’s horror slate has plenty of blood, ghosts, and chainsaws. But none of it feels quite as uncanny as Good Boy.

    It’s a supernatural thriller told from the perspective of a dog, and not as a gimmick. The whole film plays out through canine senses: blurred color, scent memory, sound distortion. It’s Cujo meets Under the Skin meets that one dream you had where your pet knew something you didn’t.

    The result? A horror movie that doesn’t just ask what we’re afraid of — it asks what fear smells like. 

    It’s not an accident this lands now.

    2025 has been the year of inhuman point-of-view horror, a quiet trend that’s been building since The Outwaters and Skinamarink, but has now gone full feral.

    In a year where the human story feels played out, with pandemics behind us, politics back to circus mode, AI doing bad creepypasta impressions of real life…horror’s finding fresh nerve endings through other eyes.

    And the shift feels somewhat revolutionary.

    For decades, horror taught us empathy through victims and villains. Now it’s teaching us estrangement, to feel alien in our own species. 

    THE STATE OF HORROR THIS OCTOBER

You’ve got options this month, Grindhouse faithful:

  • BLACK PHONE 2 (Universal) — Sinister suburbia redux. Ethan Hawke stays retired, but his ghost lingers.

  • V/H/S/HALLOWEEN — The found-footage anthology that refuses to die, with segments set on livestreams, VR rigs, and one cursed animatronic Chuck E. Cheese.

  • SHELBY OAKS — The long-delayed YouTube-culture horror finally drops; worth it for the Blair Witch callback alone.

  • HELL HOUSE LLC: LINEAGE — Proof that franchise horror is the new folk art.

  • And 39 (!) classic horror films are reissued in theaters this month — from The Thing (4K) to Messiah of Eviland Basket Case. If you’ve never seen Basket Case on the big screen, fix that.

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