We’re just a few days away from October, and that means it’s time for Halloween. Scary movies. Spooky stories. Specters that crawl out of your television and have really long hair. Given that, it’s hard to not see this upcoming month as a streaming service contest: which player can out-Halloween the others?

Netflix starts off strong with I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. Osgood Perkins’ film was one of my favorites from the Toronto International Film Festival this year, and it’s as creepy, weird, and atmospheric as they come. And if that’s not enough, six new episodes of Black Mirror are coming October 21st. Now, I hear you: Black Mirror isn’t technically horror, but it is technically freaky and weird, and that fits right in. Throw in American Horror Story: Hotel, and Netflix is looking pretty solid — except that the service is actually losing The Exorcist, which is such a Halloween faux pas that it’s hard to understand how such a thing could be allowed to happen.

HBO Now, on the other hand, knows how to clean house the right way. Gone next month? The lackluster 28 Weeks Later. Replacing it? 28 Days Later. The service is also adding the original Poltergeist — a family holiday classic — and to remind you just how good that movie was back in 1982, it's also adding the 2015 remake for an easy (if depressing) comparison.

Jonathan Nolan’s Westworld arrives at long last on October 2nd, which promises to be full of all kinds of strange, horrifying dystopian imagery, and then HBO Now is bringing it home by offering audiences an idea of what true terror looks like. That’s right. It’s adding Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.

Sounds pretty good, right? Seems like HBO Now has it in the bag, doesn’t it? Well that’s because you haven’t yet seen what Amazon Prime is adding, which is such a grab bag of terrible and wonderful horror movies that it’s hard to get my head around the ambition of it all. The original Let the Right One In, I Saw the Devil, and The Host? Check. V/H/S, for the found footage fiends? Check. Joyride, which isn’t really a horror movie and isn’t scary, but was co-written by J.J. Abrams which makes it a fascinating cinematic footnote that I had to mention nevertheless? Check. How about Sleepaway Camp 3, which I’m not sure anybody actually knew existed after Blockbuster stores closed down? It’s there, too.

All of that alone would be enough for Amazon to take the crown, but it’s all just a prelude to the Halloween programming masterstroke — a monster flick so legendarily terrible that it transcends all notions of good and bad, right and wrong. It is singular. It is unstoppable. And it is beyond human comprehension.

I give you: Troll 2.

Coming to Netflix

October 1st

A Cinderella Story

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Blue Streak

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Dazed and Confused

Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

Fairy Tale: A True Story

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Gentleman’s Agreement

Ghost Town

Grizzly Man

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Millennium

Murder Maps, season 2

My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree

Once Upon a Time in the West

Oriented

Patton

Picture This!

Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin

The Queen of the Damned

Quiz Show

Robotech (1985)

RV

Saving Mr. Wu

Snake Eyes

Snow Day

Sphere

Three Kings

Titanic

Unforgiven

The Uninvited

Unsealed: Alien Files, season 4

Without a Paddle

October 3rd–6th

Dheepan

American Horror Story: Hotel

Chevalier

Dartmoor Killing

The Flash, season 2

The Grinder, season 1

Arrow, season 4

iZombie, season 2

October 7th

13th

Dinotrux, season 3

The Ranch, season 1 - part 2

Russell Peters: Almost Famous ­

The Siege of Jadotville

Supernatural, season 11

October 8th–16th

The Originals, season 3

Vampire Diaries, season 7

Kuromukuro, season 2

Love Between the Covers

Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, season 1

Mascots

Haters Back Off!, season 1

Project MC2, season 3

Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo­Qiang

Being George Clooney

Chapo: el escape del siglo

Glitch, season 1

Power Rangers Dino Super Charge, season 1 - part 1

Dark Matter, season 2

October 21st–26th

Black Mirror, season 3 - part 1

Containment, season 1

Joe Rogan: Triggered

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show, season 3

Word Party, season 2

Doctor Foster, season 1

Big Eyes

Jesus Camp

Kung Fu Panda 3

October 28th–31st

7 Años

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

Into the Inferno

Skylanders Academy, season 1

Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park: Europe

The Fall, season 3

Chewing Gum, season 1

Leaving Netflix

October 1st

10.0 Earthquake

Back to the Future

Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part III

Beverly Hills Cop II

Congo

Deep Impact

Erin Brockovich

The Exorcist (1973)

Heroes, seasons 1­-4

Honey

Honey 2

Insomnia

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Mr. Deeds

My Girl

Nick of Time

The Phantom

Psych, seasons 1-­8

The Running Man

Saturday Night Live, season 38

Timeline

Uncommon Valor

The Warriors

October 2nd–16th

The Big Green

Ivan the Incredible

Devil

Estranged

October 20th–31st

Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, season 2

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Redemption

The Interview

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Truman Show

Coming to Amazon Prime Video

October 1st

Alice

Bachelorette

Bananas

Before Sunset

Before Sunrise

The Blood Oranges

Blue Steel (1989)

Bowling for Columbine

Chinatown

Class

Congo

Cool It

Curse of the Pink Panther

Candyman 3: Day of the Dead

Dead Men Can’t Dance

Deep Impact

The Devil’s Advocate

The Dogs of War

Down Terrace

Dreamcatcher

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex

The Falcon and the Snowman

A Feast at Midnight

Final Destination

The Gift

Happy Gilmore

The Host (English Subtitled)

Hunger Games, The: Mockingjay Part 2

I Saw the Devil (English Subtitled)

Island in the Sky

The Last Waltz

Let the Right One In (English Subtitled)

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon 4

Lost and Delirious

Love and Death

I Am David

Joyride

Last Night

Malibu Beach

Malibu High

Married to the Mob

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy

Misery

Mission Park

Monsters

Mutant Chronicles

National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call

National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie

National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2: College

Nick of Time

North Dallas Forty

The Patriot

Peter and the Wolf

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Pride and Prejudice

Quigley Down Under

Redacted

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Roger Dodger

Secretary

SFW

A Shot in the Dark

Slap Shot

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland

Son of the Pink Panther

Spanish Judges

Splinter

Stage Beauty

Stigmata

The Stoned Age

Stuart Saves His Family

Throw Momma from the Train

Timecrimes

Trail of the Pink Panther

Training Day

Troll

Troll 2

Trollhunter (English Subtitled)

True Colors

Tucker & Dale vs Evil

The Warriors

The Witches

V/H/S

Zombie Nation

October 3rd–14th

Stonewall

American Horror Story, season 5

LEGO Jurassic World

The Dark Horse

Goliath (series premiere)

October 17th–27th

Louder Than Bombs

Spectre

Complete Unknown

October 28th

Good Girls Revolt (series premiere)

Coming to HBO Now

October 1st

Deadpool

Cop Car

28 Days Later

An American Haunting (Extended Cut)

Balls of Fury

Bride Wars

Cast Away

Cocktail

The Cowboy Way

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

Demolition Man

Drumline

Eastern Promises

I Am Legend (Extended Cut)

Jeepers Creepers

The Jewel of the Nile

John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars

A Kid in King Arthur’s Court

The Kingdom

The Place Beyond the Pines

Poltergeist (1982)

Repo Man

Romancing the Stone

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 2

We Were Soldiers

The Wedding Singer

October 2nd

Westworld (series premiere)

October 3rd–15th

Class Divide

Ride Along 2

Divorce (series premiere)

Insecure (series premiere)

VICE News Tonight

By the Sea

Joy

October 17th–29th

Magnifica '70 (season 2 premiere)

Mr. Right

Gods of Egypt

Tracey Ullman’s Show (series premiere)

Sesame Street (Halloween episode)

Poltergeist — Extended Edition (2015)

Leaving HBO Now

October 30th

Lucy

October 31st

27 Dresses

28 Weeks Later

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie

Dressed to Kill

Dumb and Dumber To

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Friday Night Lights

Happy Feet

Inherent Vice

Juno

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Mean Streets

Pitch Perfect 2

Soapdish

Spy

Sudden Death

The Theory of Everything

Vacation

We Are Your Friends

Wild Wild West

Windtalkers

How filmmakers manipulate emotions using color