If you’re a fan of found footage horror there are two satisfyingly creepy-looking new movies arriving soon with Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin on Paramount+ and The Deep House on Epix.

Kicking off our annual shift to spotlight horror villains all October long, Annabelle is an evil doll possessed by the demonic entity known as Malthus, who seeks to possess and take over human souls until stopped and contained (for now) by Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Although no one really enjoyed the final season of Game of Thrones, HBO hopes you’ll be ready to return to Westeros next year when the prequel series House of the Dragon, which follows the reign of the Targaryens, debuts.

Jason O’Mara is a hypnotherapist who seemingly has the ability to implant ideas and control his patients, with Mike Flanagan regular Kate Siegel as his latest target, in the upcoming Netflix thriller Hypnotic.

Halloween 1-5 are out this week in Collector’s Edition 4Ks this week along with Season 1 Part 1 of The Nevers, the first (and final) season of Clarice, Paramount+’s new The Stand, Castle Rock The Complete Series, a new 4K Universal Monsters collection and more.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage had an utterly massive opening at the box office this past weekend, crushing any previous opening record of the pandemic era and also topping its predecessor by around $10 million.

Seemingly inspired by songs like the Maniac Cop Rap and Turtle Power, the wonderfully over-the-top Psycho Goreman featured its own rap soundtrack song, “PG for Short”, performed by the character Lil Cea$er, that played over the end credits.

Disney and Scarlett Johansson settle their lawsuit out of court and the Friday the 13th lawsuit reaches a decision, the next Jason Statham/Guy Ritchie movies gets a new title and release date, The Boys college spin-off is officially coming to Prime Video, Jumanji is getting a theme park ride in Italy, Babylon 5 is coming back on The CW and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the Everything Actioncast podcast, Zach and Chris discuss all the trailers and first looks from Netflix’s “Tudum” event, including Cowboy Bebop, The Witcher and The Sandman, legal decisions and new lawsuits regarding Friday the 13th and Marvel, Fear Street, the terrible first episode of La Brea on NBC, Puppet Master and more.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage kicks off October in theaters along with The Addams Family 2 and The Many Saints of Newark while The Guilty and No One Gets Out Alive hit Netflix and more in theaters and streaming.