All the Movies, Shows & Specials Coming to 4K UHD & Blu-ray in October 2026

All the Movies, Shows & Specials Coming to 4K UHD & Blu-ray in October 2026

October is the month when horror fans traditionally make terrible financial decisions in the name of owning movies we already own in three other formats, and the physical-media gods have clearly decided to encourage this behavior. The October 2026 4K UHD and Blu-ray release calendar is stacked with horror classics, major new releases, SteelBooks, Criterion upgrades, Hong Kong action, boutique-label insanity and enough collector's editions to make your shelving unit quietly file for workers' compensation.

From Halloween and The Pope's Exorcist to Masters of the Universe, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula and an increasingly dangerous number of boutique releases, there is a lot competing for our money this month. So grab your wallet, apologize to it in advance, and let's get into all the verified movies, shows and specials coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray in October 2026.

Physical Media Release Calendar - October 2026

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Aces Go Places Collection - Starring: Sam Hui, Karl Maka, Sylvia Chang. Directors: Eric Tsang, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark, Lau Kar-leung. The five-film collection brings the beloved Hong Kong action-comedy series to 4K UHD with cops, criminals, outrageous stunts and enough escalating chaos to make subtlety seem wildly overrated.

Get it on Amazon here: Aces Go Places Collection (4K UHD)

Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert - This animated martial-arts adventure follows a highly skilled mercenary whose seemingly straightforward escort mission drags him into a much larger conflict.

Get it on Amazon here: Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert (4K UHD)

Convoy - Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine. Director: Sam Peckinpah. A rebellious trucker becomes the unlikely leader of an enormous convoy after a confrontation with a corrupt sheriff turns into a full-blown highway revolt.

Get it on Amazon here: Convoy (4K UHD)

Cutter's Way - Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn. Director: Ivan Passer. Two very different friends become consumed by the possibility that a wealthy local businessman may be responsible for a young woman's murder.

Get it on Amazon here: Cutter's Way (4K UHD)

Death on the Nile - Starring: Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow. Director: John Guillermin. Hercule Poirot's luxurious Egyptian vacation becomes considerably less relaxing when murder interrupts a Nile cruise filled with suspects.

Get it on Amazon here: Death on the Nile (4K UHD)

Halloween - Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles. Director: John Carpenter. Michael Myers escapes confinement and returns to Haddonfield on Halloween night in the slasher masterpiece that permanently made babysitting seem like a terrible career choice.

Get it on Amazon here: Halloween (4K UHD SteelBook)

Halloween II - Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers. Director: Rick Rosenthal. Michael Myers continues his Halloween-night pursuit of Laurie Strode through the extremely understaffed-looking halls of Haddonfield Memorial Hospital.

Get it on Amazon here: Halloween II (4K UHD SteelBook)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch - Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy. Director: Tommy Lee Wallace. A doctor investigating a mysterious death discovers a sinister Halloween-mask manufacturer with considerably more ambitious plans than selling seasonal merchandise.

Get it on Amazon here: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (4K UHD SteelBook)

The Haunted Cop Shop - Starring: Jacky Cheung, Ricky Hui, Billy Lau. Director: Jeffrey Lau. A police station built on a former wartime site becomes ground zero for supernatural chaos in this gloriously strange Hong Kong collision of horror and comedy.

Get it on Amazon here: The Haunted Cop Shop (Blu-ray)

Magic - Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith. Director: Richard Attenborough. A troubled ventriloquist retreats to his hometown with a dummy whose influence over him may be considerably more sinister than anyone realizes.

Get it on Amazon here: Magic (4K UHD SteelBook)

Welcome II the Terrordome - Starring: Suzette Llewellyn, Saffron Burrows, Felix Joseph. Director: Ngozi Onwurah. Britain's first theatrically distributed feature directed by a Black British woman presents a furious dystopian vision of racial violence, oppression and revenge.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Aswang - Starring: Tina Ona Paukstelis, Norman Moses, John Kishline. Directors: Barry Poltermann, Wrye Martin. A pregnant woman agrees to pose as a stranger's wife at an isolated estate and discovers that the arrangement involves something far more horrifying than she expected.

Get it on Amazon here: Aswang (Blu-ray)

Darkroom: The Complete Series - Starring: James Coburn. This short-lived anthology series delivers supernatural and psychological tales introduced by Coburn from the appropriately ominous confines of a darkroom.

Get it on Amazon here: Darkroom: The Complete Series (Blu-ray)

Frankenhooker - Starring: James Lorinz, Patty Mullen, Louise Lasser. Director: Frank Henenlotter. A grieving amateur scientist attempts to rebuild his dead fiancée using body parts from sex workers in one of the more difficult movies to summarize at Thanksgiving dinner.

Get it on Amazon here: Frankenhooker (4K UHD)

Hostel: Parts I & II - 20th Anniversary Edition - Starring: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Lauren German. Director: Eli Roth. Eli Roth's first two Hostel films arrive together in a 4K SteelBook collection devoted to ill-fated travelers discovering that European vacations can, in fact, get significantly worse than lost luggage.

Get it on Amazon here: Hostel: Parts I & II - 20th Anniversary Edition (4K UHD SteelBook Collection)

The Last Boy Scout - Starring: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field. Director: Tony Scott. A burned-out private investigator and disgraced football player uncover a conspiracy connecting professional sports, gambling and murder.

Get it on Amazon here: The Last Boy Scout (4K UHD Limited Edition)

Maniac - Starring: Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder, America Olivo. Director: Franck Khalfoun. A deeply disturbed mannequin-store owner develops an obsession with a photographer while his murderous compulsions become increasingly impossible to contain.

Get it on Amazon here: Maniac (2012) (4K UHD)

The Pope's Exorcist - Starring: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe. Director: Julius Avery. The Vatican's chief exorcist investigates a child's terrifying possession and uncovers a conspiracy buried within the Church's history.

Get it on Amazon here: The Pope's Exorcist (4K UHD)

Rollercoaster - Starring: George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Richard Widmark. Director: James Goldstone. An amusement-park safety inspector races to stop an extortionist sabotaging roller coasters across the country, which is precisely the sort of movie you should not watch immediately before visiting Six Flags.

Get it on Amazon here: Rollercoaster (4K UHD)

Ryan's Daughter - Starring: Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, Christopher Jones. Director: David Lean. A married Irish woman begins an affair with a British officer during World War I, setting off consequences that ripple through her small coastal community.

Get it on Amazon here: Ryan's Daughter (4K UHD)

Surf Nazis Must Die! - Starring: Gail Neely, Barry Brenner, Robert Harden. Director: Peter George. In a post-earthquake California overrun by violent surfer gangs, a grieving mother decides the neo-Nazis responsible for killing her son have made an extremely poor life choice.

Get it on Amazon here: Surf Nazis Must Die! (4K UHD)

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

A Chinese Ghost Story - Starring: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma. Director: Ching Siu-tung. A timid tax collector takes shelter in a haunted temple and falls in love with a beautiful ghost trapped under the control of a powerful supernatural force.

Get it on Amazon here: A Chinese Ghost Story (4K UHD SteelBook)

A Chinese Ghost Story III - Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung. Director: Ching Siu-tung. A Buddhist monk and his master encounter the resurrected Tree Demon while traveling through a supernatural landscape filled with ghosts, magic and spectacular action.

Get it on Amazon here: A Chinese Ghost Story III (4K UHD SteelBook)

Bluebeard - Starring: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi. Director: Edward Dmytryk. A wealthy aristocrat's unfortunate habit of accumulating dead wives begins attracting the attention of his newest bride.

Get it on Amazon here: Bluebeard (4K UHD)

Christiane F. - Starring: Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal. Director: Uli Edel. A teenager becomes consumed by Berlin's drug scene in the harrowing adaptation of the acclaimed nonfiction account of Christiane Felscherinow's youth.

Get it on Amazon here: Christiane F. (Criterion Collection 4K UHD)

The Complete Kubrick Collector's Set - This Criterion collection brings together a major selection of Stanley Kubrick's landmark films in a deluxe set celebrating one of cinema's most obsessively precise filmmakers.

Get it on Amazon here: The Complete Kubrick Collector's Set (4K UHD)

Flic Story - Starring: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori. Director: Jacques Deray. A determined French detective relentlessly pursues a dangerous criminal in this tense crime drama based on real events.

Get it on Amazon here: Flic Story (Blu-ray)

Futureworld - Starring: Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill. Director: Richard T. Heffron. Reporters investigating the reopened Delos amusement park discover that its apparently improved robot attractions are hiding a much more disturbing plan.

Get it on Amazon here: Futureworld (4K UHD Limited Edition)

I Want Your Sex - Starring: Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Charli xcx. Director: Gregg Araki. A young man lands a job working for a provocative artist and finds himself pulled into a complicated world of desire, power and increasingly messy relationships.

Get it on Amazon here: I Want Your Sex (4K UHD)

Masters of the Universe - Starring: Nicholas Galitzine, Camila Mendes, Alison Brie. Director: Travis Knight. He-Man returns to Eternia and joins the fight against Skeletor in the new live-action adaptation of Mattel's fantasy franchise.

Get it on Amazon here: Over Your Dead Body (Blu-ray)

The Pirates of Penzance - Starring: Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt. Director: Wilford Leach. Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta hits the screen with pirates, romance, spectacular misunderstandings and the kind of commitment to theatrical absurdity I deeply respect.

Get it on Amazon here: The Pirates of Penzance (4K UHD)

Planet of the Vampires - Starring: Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda. Director: Mario Bava. Astronauts stranded on a hostile planet discover an alien force capable of possessing the dead in Mario Bava's enormously influential sci-fi horror classic.

Get it on Amazon here: Planet of the Vampires (4K UHD Limited Edition)

The Silence of the Lambs - Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn. Director: Jonathan Demme. FBI trainee Clarice Starling seeks help from imprisoned killer Hannibal Lecter while hunting another murderer in one of the most unnervingly perfect thrillers ever made.

Get it on Amazon here: The Silence of the Lambs (Criterion Collection 4K UHD)

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Bruiser - Starring: Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare, Leslie Hope. Director: George A. Romero. An ignored and humiliated office worker awakens to discover his face has become a featureless white mask as his suppressed rage begins finding considerably less suppressed outlets.

Get it on Amazon here: Bruiser (4K UHD)

The Clown Murders - Starring: Stephen Young, Susan Keller, John Candy. Director: Martyn Burke. A Halloween kidnapping staged as a prank takes a much darker turn when the costumed participants realize somebody else has joined the game.

Get it on Amazon here: The Clown Murders (4K UHD)

Duplicity - Starring: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson. Director: Tony Gilroy. Two former intelligence agents enter the corporate espionage business while attempting to pull off an elaborate con without entirely trusting each other.

Get it on Amazon here: Duplicity (4K UHD)

Frankenstein - Starring: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth. Director: Guillermo del Toro. Guillermo del Toro brings Mary Shelley's immortal story of Victor Frankenstein and his creation to life in a lavish adaptation arriving from Criterion with both the theatrical version and an extended director's cut.

Get it on Amazon here: Frankenstein (2025) (Criterion Collection 4K UHD)

The Frighteners - Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson. Director: Peter Jackson. A man who can communicate with ghosts turns his supernatural ability into a questionable little business before encountering a genuinely murderous entity.

Get it on Amazon here: The Frighteners (4K UHD Limited Edition)

Hellraiser Tetralogy - The first four Hellraiser films bring Pinhead, the Cenobites and an impressive amount of flesh-tearing existential unpleasantness together in one 4K UHD collection.

Get it on Amazon here: Hellraiser Tetralogy (4K UHD)

Horror of Dracula - Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough. Director: Terence Fisher. Christopher Lee's ferocious Count Dracula battles Peter Cushing's Van Helsing in Hammer's hugely influential reinvention of the vampire classic.

Get it on Amazon here: Horror of Dracula (4K UHD)

No Other Choice - Starring: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon. Director: Park Chan-wook. A longtime employee pushed out of his job becomes increasingly desperate to eliminate the competition standing between him and employment.

Get it on Amazon here: No Other Choice (4K UHD Limited Edition)

The Perros Callejeros Trilogy - Director: José Antonio de la Loma. This Blu-ray collection gathers the influential Spanish crime films chronicling delinquency, violence and survival on the streets of late-1970s and early-1980s Barcelona.

Get it on Amazon here: The Perros Callejeros Trilogy (Blu-ray)

And there you have it: October 2026 has decided that Halloween means we should spend the entire month buying increasingly elaborate boxes containing movies about serial killers, vampires, ghosts, Cenobites, possessed children and Michael Myers. You know, my seasonal joy.

Between huge 4K upgrades like The Silence of the Lambs, Horror of Dracula, The Frighteners and Frankenstein, cult insanity like Surf Nazis Must Die! and Frankenhooker, Hong Kong favorites, new studio releases and the usual parade of boutique labels finding incredibly effective new ways to separate me from my money, October is another ridiculously strong month for physical media.

As always, physical media street dates occasionally move, editions sell out and additional releases can be announced after the initial calendars go live. Bookmark this page and check back throughout October as we keep the 4K UHD and Blu-ray release calendar updated - because the only thing scarier than the movies this month is checking the total after you've added all of them to your cart.

See September 2026's 4k Blu-Ray & Physical Media Releases