Hulu’s Price Hike Has You Cancelling? Here Are 3 Brand New Netflix Original Movies To Watch This October Instead

So Hulu’s raising prices again. Great. If you’re staring at your bank statement wondering which streaming service to drop, Netflix is making the decision easier this fall. October is stacked with new original movies that might actually make you forget what you’re missing on Hulu. From a glamorous murder mystery on a yacht, to Cillian Murphy doing what he does best (suffer beautifully), to a true crime story that will crawl under your skin, here’s what to stream instead of footing Hulu’s latest bill.

My Father, the BTK Killer – Streaming October 10th

Netflix wouldn’t be Netflix without its own steady diet of true crime documentaries. But where some of the streamer’s true crime is straight-up dumpster-fire trash (we’re looking at you, Tiger King), My Father, the BTK Killer manages to sidestep the exploitative vibe. Directed by Skye Borgman (creator and director of the popular summer hit Unknown Number: The High School Catfish), the documentary revisits the so-called BTK murders of the 1980s and 90s, but this time through the lens of one of the serial killer’s daughters. You might have heard of Dennis Rader, a quiet man of faith in his small Kansas hometown with a side hustle as one of America’s most notorious serial killers. His daughter, Kerri Rawson, now has to live with the knowledge of what her dad did to innocent families in her own town. She also has to reconcile her childhood memories of her father (taking her to church every Sunday, Cub Scouts, and lessons on growing up good) with the reality of his depraved violence. Framed as a peek into the long-term effects of living with a family member so personally tied to evil, My Father, the BTK Killer is less tabloid trash and more like a memoir of the real-life horror that is My Dad. Complete with talking heads and archival video, this isn’t going to reinvent the documentary wheel, but if Mindhunter gave you nightmares, this one will really get under your skin.

The Woman in Cabin 10 – Streaming October 10th

For her latest thriller, Keira Knightley trades corsets for a cat-and-mouse chase on the high seas. Adapted from Ruth Ware’s best-selling novel, The Woman in Cabin 10 from Netflix is a thriller for the Instagram age. Think Gone Girl meets Death on the Nile, only with less boating and more blood. Set on a fancy floating houseboat, nobody knows (or tells) the truth, including Knightley’s character Lo, a travel journalist. After she claims to witness a fellow passenger thrown overboard, Lo suspects murder. The problem? The passenger list doesn’t show the victim, and everyone she questions insists she’s imagined the whole thing. It’s the “woman who knows the truth, no one believes her” formula we know and love, with a feminist twist. Plus Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham, and David Morrissey as a cabin crew with possibly more to hide than a little secret romantic tryst. If it’s a glossy whodunnit you want, this is Netflix’s answer.

Steve – Streaming October 3rd

Remember when Cillian Murphy had the weight of the world on his shoulders? Not since Oppenheimer (or the end of that film, which has stayed with me) has Murphy given us such a stunningly pure performance. If you’re still down about the fate of the world, or enjoyed watching Murphy loiter menacingly in the backstreets of Birmingham as Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders, then Steve is one more project to put on your watchlist. Based on the novel Shy by Max Porter, Steve is a raw, intense dissection of a moment in time, one day, one school, and one young man trying to save it all from falling apart. As the headteacher of a reform school on the edge of 1990s London, Murphy’s Steve is wracked by a crumbling mental state but pushed by an unfathomable urge to fix the broken around him. Tim Mielants, who previously worked on Peaky Blinders and Small Things Like These with Murphy, directs this prestige cinema feel but with the budget of something you’d normally find your local arthouse pumping out every Tuesday.