12 spooky movies to watch during the month of October

October is the start of many things.

The leaves are changing colours, it is finally cosy jumper season, it seems like there's an abundance of sweets wherever we go. And time to dive head-first into a month-long scary movie marathon - it is nearly Hallowe'en, after all. Whether you're a die-hard fan of horror films or simply trying to get into the spooky spirit of the season, here are 12 thrillers/horror movies you can stream on Netflix now.

Prisoners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpXfcTF6iVk When his six-year-old daughter is abducted and the investigation stalls, carpenter Keller Dover tracks down the culprit himself.

The Invisible Guest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epCg2RbyF80 After waking to his now-dead lover in a hotel room, a young businessman hires a prominent lawyer to figure out how he ended up as a murder suspect.

Hush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_P8WCbhC6s&t=49s A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.

Gerald's Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twbGU2CqqQU When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie - handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house - faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

Misery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHQ9CPRfDsw A former nurse saves her favourite writer from a blizzard, but morphs form nurturer to sadistic jailer when she finds out his plans to kill off her heroine.

Mirage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESuEBn7WAUE A space-time continuum glitch allows Vera to save a boy's life 25 years ago - but results in the loss of her own daughter, who she fights to get back.

The Open House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMSu3Gyz1jU Following a tragedy, a mother and her teen son move to a relative's vacant vacation home, where eerie and unexplained forces conspire against them.

The Invitation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9kJV7c9eKA A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, which leads to an unsettling and eerie evening that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.

47 Metres Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddYSGGJAKOk With little oxygen left in their scuba tanks, two sisters are trapped in a shark cafe at the bottom of the ocean while great whites circle nearby.

The Ritual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfugwq2uoa0 Four friends with a long-standing but strained connection take a hiking trip into the Swedish wilderness, from which they may never return.

Before I Wake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TFc9pprTLE Still mourning the death of their son, Mark and Jessie welcome foster child Cody into their lives. Soon they discover he has a strange ability.

Await Further Instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOCk34vt1U A family's tenses reunion turns terrifying when they become trapped in their house by an unknown force, and sinister commands start appearing on their TV.