Kids get your costumes ready, it's October!/October Movie Releases

Ahhhh one of our favorite seasons of the year, Autumn/Fall, is in full swing. Does this mean that our favorite movies are on the way? Maybe..

Lots of horror movies to look forward to, lots of sequels, lots of Saw, just lots of scares in general. So ill stay quiet for a minute while you look down the list for Octobers movie releases:

NOTE:(x)= Limited Release

October 1st

• The Social Network
• Let Me In
• Case 39
• Hatchet II
• Chain Letter(x)
• Freakonomics(x)

October 8th

• Life As We Know It
• Secretariat
• My Soul To Take
• It's Kind Of A Funny Story(x)
• Nowhere Boy(x)

October 15th

• Jackass 3D
• Red
• Conviction

October 22nd

• Paranormal Activity 2
• Hereafter

October 29th

• Saw 3D
• Monsters(x)

Robert Acosta:
September was an interesting month for a couple reasons. Mostly because September is usually a dump month, where movies with good intentions go to die. The funny thing is, most of the movies in September were actually decent and didn't die. Of course box office numbers weren't too kind to them but, money doesn't always equal a good movie. Easy A, Machete, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Devil, The Town, Virginity Hit and Buried were all at the very least, interesting and above.

October looks to carry the strong showing of movies in September. October is of course the month of Halloween so horror movies are in full swing, sprinkled in with some other movies that have a chance to be gems.

October starts with The Social Network, one of the more hyped movies of the year and has so far received generally positive reviews.

October 8th, in a rare case, has stronger limited releases than wide releases. Nowhere Boy is the story of John Lennon right before The Beatles went to America, so they cover basically his adolescence. It's Kind of a Funny Story looks to be a funny, sad story featuring Zach Galifinakis in a starring role. How could that go wrong?

In the 3rd week we see the return of the Jackass crew and boy is it looking to be a good, fun time. More importantly, it's in 3D!

The last two weeks of October feature some not so wanted sequels, but shaping up to be fairly good sequels. Paranormal Activity was one of the creepiest movies ever created and may not have needed a sequel, it's a fair argument to make. Can Paranormal Activity 2 recapture that creepy, eerie feeling that the first one did? Or will it just copy what the first installment did and prove to be unoriginal?

Finally, Saw 3D is making out to be the final Saw movie. Only time will tell if that holds up but if it is true, it looks like were in for a good finale. I'm a huge Saw fan, i've seen every single Saw movie in the theater, no matter what negatve hype surrounded it. Looking forward to for the last time.

Jose Diaz:
Fall is upon us. The holiday season is creeping up. Soon we shall be knee deep in candy, leaves, pumpkins, and horror. Welcome October! The first in my three favorite consecutive holiday months. With October we get Halloween and a month jam packed with horror and scares. So a perfect month to release many horror and scary movies right? Well to me and you it makes sense to take advantage of the month but Hollywood tends to do the opposite and bring out dramas and comedies and very little in the scares. So what movies will be released this month?


The first and eight of Oct. sees the release of two horror movies that I would like to see for two different reasons. Let Me In, the remake of Let The Right one In and My Soul To Take by Wes Craven. The Social Network is a movie about Facebook. Yes that Facebook. But it looks like it might actually be good. We also get a John Lennon as young guy movie in Nowhere Boy and Its Kind Of A Funny Story. And then Disney decided that October would be a good month to release a horse drama movie Secretariat.

October 15th sees a good action movie in Red about aging and retired CIA agents having to get back to what they do best when they are targeted to be killed. Looks fun. Then finally the movie everyone (sarcasm) has been waiting for: Jackass 3D. Yup. They are back and in 3D. Sigh.

Now the end of the month, 22nd and 29th, has the release of Paranormal Activity 2 and the final SAW movie in 3D. If Paranormal Activity 2 follows the first one this will definitely be good. And with the last SAW, well it’s Saw. Also Clint Eastwood decided to release Hereafter starring Matt Damon as a ghost seeing psychic or something. Should have waited another week to be released. Also a limited release of a movie by the name of Monsters which feels and looks a bit like District 9 but involving monsters instead of aliens. Looks interesting and I would like to catch it if I could. Well until next month stay classy Movie Spot.