It's scary times for Netflix – and not because Halloween is next month.
The streaming overload apocalypse is coming, with Warner Bros. (HBOMax), Apple (AppleTV+), Disney (Disney+) and NBCUniversal (*giggles* Peacock) all readying their rivals for the Big Red Streaming Monolith. And other than Apple's streaming service, they all should have much larger libraries of TV shows and movies old and new than Netflix – all while culling their content from Netflix in the process and shrinking its library in return. The world that Netflix helped make might end up killing it in the end.
And speaking of one's slow-approaching death, here are the movies and TV shows leaving the Big Red Streaming Monolith next month – and as has been the case over the past year or so, it's a lot! Everything from retro classics ("All the President's Men," "Bonnie and Clyde," "Cabaret," "Hoosiers" and "Gremlins") to recent awards season gems ("The Imitation Game," "Julie & Julia"), Film Twitter favorites ("Frances Ha," "In Bruges") to Hollywood blockbusters ("Cloverfield," "Pineapple Express") are on the way out.
Here is the full list of shows and moves you should get to watching before these selections are killed off in October like a horror-savvy youngster in a third Wes Craven sequel. (On that note, yes, "Scream 4" will leave Netflix as well next month.)
For the list of movies coming to Netflix in October, click here.
Oct. 1
"A.I.: Artificial Intelligence"
"All the President's Men"
"Bonnie and Clyde"
"Bring It On: In It To Win It"
"Cabaret"
"Casper"
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
"Cloverfield"
"Deliverence"
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood"
"The Dukes of Hazzard"
"Empire Records"
"Evolution"
"Forks Over Knives"
"Frances Ha"
"Free State of Jones"
"Get Carter"
"Gremlins"
"Hoosiers"
"Impractical Jokers" season 1
"In Bruges"
"Julie & Julia"
"Lakeview Terrace"
"Midsomer Murders" seasons 1-19
"The Nightmare"
"Obsessed"
"Pineapple Express"
"Platoon"
"Quiz Show"
"She's Out of My League"
"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"
"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2"
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Oct. 5
"Despicable Me 3"
Oct. 7
"David Blaine: What is Magic?"
"Scream 4"
Oct. 9
"Little Witch Academia"
"Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade"
"Sword Art Online II" season 1
Oct. 15
"El Internado" seasons 1-7
Oct. 20
"Bridget Jones's Baby"
Oct. 25
"The Carrie Diaries" seasons 1-2
Oct. 29
"The Fall" season 1
"The Imitation Game"
As much as it is a gigantic cliché to say that one has always had a passion for film, Matt Mueller has always had a passion for film. Whether it was bringing in the latest movie reviews for his first grade show-and-tell or writing film reviews for the St. Norbert College Times as a high school student, Matt is way too obsessed with movies for his own good.
When he's not writing about the latest blockbuster or talking much too glowingly about "Piranha 3D," Matt can probably be found watching literally any sport (minus cricket) or working at - get this - a local movie theater. Or watching a movie. Yeah, he's probably watching a movie.