Adding to the Horror

Despite the loss of a number of horror films last week, Amazon didn't entirely forget the need for Halloween frights, adding several other scary titles to its Prime roster—including the first three Scream flicks, a slew of Hellraisers, and the suspiciously terrible-sounding Bloody Indulgent and Just the Vampire Hunter.

Also in the (non-horror) mix are the acclaimed 2010 Will Ferrell comedy-drama, Everything Must Go—based on a Raymond Carver short story—last year's Hunger Games movie, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, and Noah Baumbach's excellent comedy for grownups, the recent While We're Young.

Bonus title: the early Nicole Kidman short, 1987's Room to Move, an engaging family drama directed for Australian TV by Flirting's John Duigan, which snuck onto Prime on 9/25.

The full list of last week's notable arrivals:

October 21

Everything Must Go (2010)

October 22

Bloody Indulgent (2015)
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993)
Dark Places (2015)
Halloween Vi: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)
Hellraiser V: Inferno (2000)
Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker (2002)
Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld (2005)
Just the Vampire Hunter (2015)
Scream (1996)
Scream 2 (1997)
Scream 3 (2004)

October 23

The Dead Hate the Living (2000)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014)
While We're Young (2015)

From September 25: Room to Move (1987)

Leaving in October: Docs, Horror, More

Sad to say, quite a few notable titles are expiring from Prime this month, many of which will be leaving as early as October 23 (as opposed to the more typical last day of the month). So if you're looking to celebrate Halloween with a good horror flick, note that several choice selections will be available on Prime only through 10/23, including standouts The Host (2006), Monsters (2010), and Trollhunter (2011).

The visual (and emotional) feast that is Melancholia

Also taking a major hit on the 23rd are documentaries, with the departure of such esteemed nonfictioners as Crazy Love (2007), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), Food, Inc. (2008), I'm Still Here (2010), Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012), Magic Trip (2011), and Man On Wire (2008)—the inspiration for Robert Zemeckis' latest, The Walk. Horror buffs may want to check out Birth of the Living Dead (2013), a Halloween-appropriate doc about George Romero, creator of the Living Dead movies—which expires two days sooner, on October 21.

Other titles worth noting: Lynn Shelton's Humpday (2009), Lars von Trier's brilliant Melancholia (2011), the Spanish time-travel thriller Timecrimes (2007), 1992's dark, critically lauded Batman: The Animated Series, the three Back to the Future movies, Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Joss Whedon's charming Much Ado About Nothing (2013), and the cult sci-fi series, Warehouse 13.

Strangely, this month's genres and expiration dates are mostly in alignment, so I've grouped and sorted them accordingly. See how they all break down on the lists below:

October Arrivals: Still Going Strong

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

There's no shortage of new titles on Prime this month, with yet another boatload of old, obscure, and public domain flicks (Nabonga, anyone?) arriving to complement a number of genuine classics, some Halloween horror, and a smattering of new releases and returns. Oh, and if you've been yearning to watch (or rewatch) the Back to the Future trilogy, all three are streaming now till the end of the month, to celebrate the first film's (gulp) 30th anniversary.

Making more than welcome appearances in October are Roman Polanski's darkly funny Bitter Moon (1994), Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's brilliant Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Stanley Tucci's old-school farce The Impostors (1998), Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972), and Otto Preminger's classic noir, Laura (1944).

Also worth a look is the first season of the Amazon original series Red Oaks, a 1980s-set coming-of-age comedy whose pilot last year showed a lot of promise. And then there's season 1 of Schitt's Creek, a new Canadian comedy I haven't seen but which stars SCTV greats Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara and is co-created by Levy—which alone should put it on any comedy fan's radar.

All notable titles listed below. Once again there were too many for me to link them all, so I've given preference to those I thought especially worth a look.