Good news: Netflix and Chills has returned to horrify and delight us with two months’ worth of creepy, crawly films and series to watch this Halloween season.
Netflix always steps up the amount of horror on their platform during this time of year, and there are plenty of choices. Let’s dig in into the 2021 Netflix and Chills schedule!
Here’s the complete plan for Netflix and Chills 2021
September 8:
Into the Night: Season 2 – At the close of season 1, the flight 21 passengers found a Soviet military bunker to hide out in from the sun. Their sense of relief is shortened when some of their food supply is compromised, and they hit the road again in order to survive.
September 10:
Lucifer – In this final season, Lucifer has become God (almost), but he finds that things are more or less falling apart without a real God. What can he do to turn things around?
Prey – Roman and his friends celebrate his upcoming wedding by taking a hiking trip. When they hear gunshots, they naturally assume it’s a hunter; but, this shooter isn’t hunting animals, and the group finds themselves evading an unknown gunman.
September 15:
Nightbooks – Alex is a boy who loves scary stories, but finds that he is living in one when he is abducted by a witch and held captive in her apartment. In order to survive, Alex must tell a scary story every night. This one is produced by Sam Raimi, so I’m in!
September 16:
Jaws – It’s always the right season for this classic film, which pits a sheriff, a bounty hunter and an oceanographer against a giant, bloodthirsty shark.
Jaws 2 – Three years after Jaws became a summer blockbuster, Sheriff Brody’s town is again menaced by a shark.
Jaws 3 – Two of Brody’s sons fight yet another shark, this time at SeaWorld in Florida.
Jaws: The Revenge – With Brody now gone, his widow Ellen is left to battle a revenge-seeking shark with the help of Louis Gossett Jr. and Michael Caine.
September 17:
Squid Game (series) – 456 people receive invitations to join in on a mysterious game, in the hopes of winning $46 billion. Each game is familiar (think Red Light, Green Light), but if you lose, you lose big. Big as in: you lose your life.
What else is coming to Netflix and Chills this year?
September 19:
Dark Skies – A near perfect mashup of sci-fi and horror, Dark Skies stars Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton as a married couple raising two sons while struggling financially. Strange and very frightening events happening in their home lead them to believe that aliens are afoot.
September 22:
Intrusion – In this home invasion thriller, a young couple’s home is broken into. As the wife tries desperately to find answers, she begins to distrust everyone around her.
September 24:
Midnight Mass (series) – All hail the return of Mike Flanagan to Netflix! The creator of The Haunting of Hill House takes us to an isolated island, where the inhabitants are shaken up by the arrival of a mysterious, magnetic priest (Hamish Linklater, Tell Me Your Secrets). Returning Hill House and Bly Manor alumni include Kate Siegel, Annabeth Gish, Rahul Kohli and Henry Thomas.
September 29:
The Chestnut Man – Police in Copenhagen are horrified to find a murdered woman with one of her hands missing. That’s bad enough, but lying next to the body is a small figure made up of chestnuts. Evidence found on the figure may lead them to the discovery of another missing girl.
No One Gets Out Alive – An immigrant wanting to live the American dream finds herself forced to stay in a nightmarish boarding house.
In October:
Locke and Key: season 2 – The return of Joe Hill’s Netflix series Locke & Key brings back the Locke family and the fascinating Keyhouse.
October 1:
Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 1 – This Canadian-American anthology series aired on Nickelodeon in the mid-90s, and now you can catch the first season on Netflix. Each episode tells a spooky story, and the popular books were actually based on the television series.
The Cave – A group of cave divers and scientists are trapped in a Romanian cave while exploring. Just as in The Descent (which was released the same year), they encounter horrifying creatures while trapped underground.
The Devil Inside – This found footage film explores what happens to a woman whose mother killed three people after being possessed. In an attempt to get answers about her mother, Isabella exposes herself to multiple exorcisms.
Ghost – I challenge you to close your eyes and listen to the song Unchained Melody without picturing Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and a pottery wheel.
Till Death – Cheating Emma (Megan Fox) decides to give her marriage one more chance during a romantic trip to a secluded lake house. She soon finds herself handcuffed to her dead husband, fighting for her life against two strangers.
Zodiac – David Fincher’s mystery thriller explores the infamous Zodiac killer, who may have murdered as many as 37 people in the late 1960s. This taut, fascinating film features an all-star cast, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey, Jr., Brian Cox and Chloe Sevigny.
More Netflix and Chills offerings
October 5:
Escape the Undertaker – An interactive film featuring WWE superstars, this one pits a tag team against an extreme haunted house, rigged by The Undertaker himself. Viewers will decide the fate of the tag team members.
October 6:
There’s Someone Inside Your House – A high school girl living with her grandmother in Nebraska finds herself and her friends hunted by a killer who wears masks that looks like his victims.
October 9:
Insidious: Chapter 2 – In the second installment of the Insidious franchise, Renai and Josh again find themselves menaced by the woman in white.
October 13:
Fever Dream / Distancia de Rescate – A dying young woman and a boy tell a frightening story.
October 15:
You: season 3 – Joe and Love are now married, living the sweet life with their baby. Joe is happy enough, but has a healthy fear of his somewhat unbalanced wife. Not only that, but he thinks the woman next door might be his dream girl. Oh, Joe, you scamp!
October 20:
Night Teeth – When a college student/chauffeur picks up two hot woman anxious to party, he finds himself fighting for his life against bloodthirsty monsters.
October 26:
Roswell, New Mexico: Season 3 – The third season continues to explore the story of Liz, who has discovered that her teen crush was actually an alien. She tried to keep his secret to herself, but politics and hatred may do Michael in.
October 27:
Hypnotic – Kate Siegel is back on another Netflix film during Netflix and Chills this time playing a woman who enlists a hypnotist to help her on her journey to self-improvement. She discovers that the intense sessions may have exposed her to some dangerous things.
October 31:
Incident in a Ghostland – Shudder fans are very familiar with this surprisingly dark and brutal film, and now Netflix subscribers can experience it for themselves. Nothing is as it seems in this film about a home invasion that leaves two sisters experiencing trauma in very different (but equally frightening) ways.
Are you excited about the 2021 roster for Netflix and Chills? Which new addition has you the most stoked? Tell us all about it in the comments section.