It’s almost October and that means bone-chilling thrills and eerie entertainment to enjoy this Halloween season. This year, Paramount+ has fresh scares and screams with new a returning titles including Scream, Paranormal Activity, A Quiet Place and Pet Sematary. In addition, stream Halloween episodes of CBS shows featuring Ghosts, Elsbeth and Tracker.
This season includes the new Paramount+ original horror film, Vicious. Starring Dakota Fanning, the film follows a woman who receives a mysterious box from an unexpected late-night visitor. It comes with one rule: inside place something you need, something you hate and something you love. When it opens, she’s pulled into a nightmare where every choice she makes leads to terrifying consequences.
Besides what’s listed above, here’s what’s coming to Paramount+ in October 2025 with notable recommendations in bold. For other movies and shows streaming, head to our what’s on page, where you’ll find everything coming to streaming services in October.
*Title is available to Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers.
**All Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers can live stream CBS titles via the live feed on Paramount+. Those titles will be available to stream on-demand to all subscribers the day after they air live.
October 1
- 30 Days of Night
- All About the Benjamins
- American Gigolo (1980)
- American Psycho
- American Psycho II: All American Girl
- Anthropoid*
- Beautiful Creatures
- Beowulf
- Breaking In
- Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
- Chloe
- Cold Mountain
- Daddy’s Home
- Death at a Funeral*
- Deep Impact
- District 9
- Drop Dead Gorgeous
- Fight Club
- Fight or Flight*
- Finding Neverland
- First Blood
- Flashdance
- Frank Miller’s Sin City
- Gangs of New York
- Good Will Hunting*
- Green Room
- Grown Ups
- Grown Ups 2
- Hard Home
- Heat
- Hellboy (2004)
- Hostel
- Hostel: Part II
- Hotel Mumbai*
- House at the End of the Street
- Hugo
- I See You
- Imagine That
- In Fabric
- Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
- Just Go with It
- King Kong (1976)
- Lake Placid
- Man With No Past
- Men in Black
- Men in Black 3
- Men in Black II
- Monster High (Season 2)
- Night Falls On Manhattan
- Nightcrawler
- No Country for Old Men
- Once Upon A Time In Mexico
- Panic Room
- Prophecy
- Proud Mary
- Rambo III
- Rambo: First Blood Part II
- Scary Movie 4
- Scary Movie V
- Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
- Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
- Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster
- Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy?
- Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster
- Scream
- Scream 2
- Scream 3
- Searching
- Selena
- Shadow Land
- Silence
- Single White Female
- Spanglish
- Swingers
- Switchback
- Tabloid*
- Teen Wolf (1985)
- The Babysitter
- The Core
- The Craft
- The Evil Dead (1981)
- The First Purge
- The Fly (1986)
- The General’s Daughter
- The Hunted
- The Last Gunfight
- The Machinist
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
- The Menu
- The Perfect Guy
- The Prince and Me
- The Prophecy
- The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
- The Prophecy II
- The Prophecy: Forsaken
- The Prophecy: Uprising
- The Shallows
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- The Warriors
- Urban Legend
- When the Bough Breaks
- Zero Dark Thirty
October 5
- A GRAMMY® Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl**
October 7
- Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now
- Queen of the Desert*
- Red Alert (Limited Series)
- The Young and the Restless (Season 53)
October 10
- Vicious (2025)
October 12
- Elsbeth (Season 3 Premiere)**
- Matlock (Season 2 Premiere)**
October 13
- DMV (Season 1 Premiere)**
- FBI (Season 8 Premiere)**
- The Neighborhood (Season 8 Premiere)**
- Watson (Season 2 Premiere)**
October 14
- NCIS (Season 23 Premiere)**
- NCIS: Origins (Season 2 Premiere)**
- NCIS: Sydney (Season 3 Premiere)**
October 16
- Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage (Season 2 Premiere)**
- Ghosts (Season 5 Premiere)**
October 17
- Boston Blue (Season 1 Premiere)**
- Fire Country (Season 4 Premiere)**
- Sheriff Country (Season 1 Premiere)**
October 18
- Fifty Shades of Black*
October 19
- The Road (Season 1 Premiere)**
- Tracker (Season 3 Premiere)**
October 22
- The Thundermans: Undercover (Season 1)
October 26
- Mayor of Kingstown (Season 4)
October 28
- Don’t Date Brandon (Limited Series)
October 29
- Love & Hip Hop Atlanta (Season 12)
Sports
- 10/1: UEFA Champions League Matchday 2
- 10/1: UEFA Champions League – Barcelona vs. PSG
- 10/1: Concacaf W Champions Cup – NJ/NY Gotham FC vs. Washington Spirit
- 10/1: Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final – XX vs. XX
- 10/2: UEFA Europa League Matchday 2
- 10/2: UEFA Conference League Matchday 1
- 10/3: EFL Championship – Wrexham vs. Birmingham
- 10/4: College Football on CBS – Air Force @ Navy*
- 10/4: Big Ten on CBS – Penn State @ UCLA*
- 10/5: NFL ON CBS Week 5 (check local listings)
- 10/5: PBR – Professional Bull Riding*
- 10/5: Serie A – Juventus vs. AC Milan
- 10/7-10/8: UEFA Women’s Champions League Matchday 1
- 10/7: UEFA Women’s Champions League – Arsenal vs. Lyon
- 10/9: Concacaf World Cup Qualifying – Honduras vs. Costa Rica
- 10/10: Concacaf World Cup Qualifying – El Salvador vs. Panama
- 10/11: PBR – Professional Bull Riding*
- 10/11: Big Ten on CBS*
- 10/12: NFL ON CBS Week 6 Doubleheader (check local listings)
- 10/13: Concacaf World Cup Qualifying – Costa Rica vs. Nicaragua
- 10/14: Concacaf World Cup Qualifying – El Salvador vs. Guatemala
- 10/15-10/16: UEFA Women’s Champions League Matchday 2
- 10/15: UEFA Women’s Champions League – Chelsea vs. Paris FC
- 10/16: UEFA Women’s Champions League – PSG vs. Real Madrid
- 10/18: NWSL – Washington Spirit vs. Orlando Pride*
- 10/18: Big Ten on CBS*
- 10/18: Serie A – Roma vs. Inter
- 10/18: EFL Championship – Stoke City vs. Wrexham
- 10/19: NFL ON CBS Week 7 (check local listings)
- 10/19: SailGP – Switzerland Sail Grand Prix*
- 10/19: Serie A – AC Milan vs. Fiorentina
- 10/21-10/22: UEFA Champions League Matchday 3
- 10/21: UEFA Champions League – Arsenal vs. Atlético Madrid
- 10/22: UEFA Champions League – Real Madrid vs. Juventus
- 10/23: UEFA Europa League Matchday 3
- 10/23: UEFA Conference League Matchday 2
- 10/25: Serie A – Napoli vs. Inter
- 10/25: Korn Ferry Presents: TOURBound – The Finals*
- 10/25: American Cornhole League*
- 10/25: Big Ten on CBS*
- 10/25: EFL Championship – Middlesbrough vs. Wrexham
- 10/26: NFL ON CBS Week 8 Doubleheader (check local listings)
- 10/28: Serie A – Atalanta vs. AC Milan
- 10/31: EFL Championship – Wrexham vs. Coventry City
- Throughout October: English Football League competition
- Throughout October: Serie A competition
- Throughout October: NWSL competition
- Throughout October: Scottish Professional Football League competition
- Throughout October: Concacaf W Champions Cup competition
- Throughout October: UEFA Women’s Champions League competition
- Throughout October: UEFA Champions League competition
- Throughout October: UEFA Europa League competition
- Throughout October: UEFA Conference League competition
- Throughout October: Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers
