The release schedule is starting to ramp up as we head into Halloween, so these are the new releases you can go watch this spooky season

Verity – Dir. Michael Showalter

Coleen Hoover’s fourth book to be adapted to the screen takes a different approach from her usual contemporary romance style. Verity – starring Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett, and Anne Hathaway’s fourth performance of the year – is Hoover’s attempt at a psychological thriller with a sprinkle of romance. It follows Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), who is hired by Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett) to ghostwrite his wife Verity’s final book after an accident rendered her unable to finish it. The longer she stays under the Crawford’s roof, she starts to discover Verity’s disturbing truths.

• Verity releases in UK cinemas on October 2nd

Digger – Dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

It’s dig or die in Tom Cruise’s step away from the action movies. Decked in prosthetics and a mad hairstyle, Cruise plays eccentric oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, who embarks on a mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the oncoming disaster he caused destroys everything. If Cruise stepping away from an action movie doesn’t excite you, Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu directing and Riz Ahmed, John Goodman and Sandra Hüller starring should. There are also rumours it may be a musical. That could end up being more of a disaster than the life-threatening emergency in the film itself, but if anyone can make it work, it’s Cruise.

• Digger releases in UK cinemas on October 2nd

Extra Geography – Dir. Molly Manners

After breaking hearts worldwide with the book-to-series adaptation One Day – and the mind behind the fun Waitrose Christmas advert starring Keira Knightley and Joe Wilkinson – director Molly Manners is taking to the big screen with her debut, Extra Geography. Described as a coming-of-age story about girlhood, the film follows best friends Flic (Marni Duggan) and Minna (Galaxie Clear) as they struggle with friendship, boys, studying, and growing up while embarking on their school project.

• Extra Geography releases in select UK cinemas on October 2nd

The Weight – Dir. Padraic McKinley

You’d think that a film starring Ethan Hawke and Russle Crowe would be all over social media and trailers. Or, you know, at least be mentioned once. For whatever reason, The Weight has managed to gain some relevance for film fans, which is a surprise considering its promising premise. When Samuel (Ethan Hawke) is torn away from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancey (Russell Crowe) gives him an ultimatum. He can go free, but only if he smuggles gold out of a remote mine with a risky crew of prisoners. Does first-time director Padraic McKinley have the minerals to pull off the premise? We will have to wait and see. At least you now know it exists.

• The Weight releases in select UK cinemas on October 2nd

Other Mommy – Dir. Rob Savage

It’s been a string of hits and misses for Jessica Chastain despite her clear pedigree as an actress. With every Interstellar and The Tree of Life comes a Dark Phoenix and The 355. Where will Other Mommy – a Rob Savage horror following young girl Bela who is followed by a sinister entity which looks exactly like her own mother – rank in her ebb and flowfilmography? I think around the level of It Chapter Two or Mother’s Instinct, but happy to be proven wrong.

• Other Mommy releases in UK cinemas on October 9th

The Social Reckoning – Dir. Aaron Sorkin

It’s been 16 years since David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin collaborated on Facebook drama The Social Network, and it’s fair to say a lot has happened to both them and the social media platform since. Fincher has gone on to work with Netflix on a deal which takes him up to 2027; Sorkin has continued to write but has more recently stepped into the director’s chair, and Facebook and Zuckerberg have unsurprisingly found themselves in many controversies. One of the many being the fallout of when Facebook engineer Frances Haugen (Mikey Maddison) seeks out Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horowitz (Jeremy Allen White) to whistleblow on the company’s secrets. That’s where the sequel, The Social Reckoning, picks back up. Neither Fincher nor Jesse Eisenberg is returning, leaving Sorkin to control the ship and putting the slimy CEO in the safe hands of Jeremy Strong.

• The Social Reckoning releases in cinemas on October 9th

Street Fighter – Dir. Kitao Sakurai

For anyone who has grown sick of seeing the Street Fighter – I know I have –  trailer, do not worry, the film finally comes out this month. Based on the cult classic arcade game, it follows fan favourites Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) who are taken to the next World Warrior Tournament by Chun Li (Callina Liang). Do not be put off by the lack of acting prowess in the wider cast; director Kiato Sakurai is revelling in the campiness of the game, bringing classic moves, outfits and overall atmosphere into a film. If nothing else is enticing you, seeing Jason Momoa as Blanka might. He is on a strange run of films. 

• Street Fighter releases in cinemas on October 16th

Wildwood – Dir. Travis Knight

The hands behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings are back, and they are back with the longest stop-motion venture ever put to screen with Wildwood. It follows Pure (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) and her classmate Curtis (Jacob Tremblay) who traverse into the magical, enchanted forest in search for Pure’s abducted baby brother who was taken by Alexandra: a mysterious women who leeds a murder of crows. It’s director Travis Knight’s second outing of the year, but let’s hope it does better than Masters of the Universe did.

• Wildwood releases into cinemas on October 23rd

Clayface – Dir. James Watkins

DC’s third release of the year comes in the way of body horror and a Batman villain. Now, admittedly it is ludicrous that we are getting a Clayface film before even a Batman casting, but at least the film looks good. It follows Matt Hagen’s (Tom Rhys Harries) rise and bloody fall from Hollywood stardom to disfigurement. Desperate to get back to his dizzying heights, he gets cutting edge treatment which returns him to his former dashing looks, but the unwarranted side effects take him down a destructive path.

• Clayface is released in the UK on October 23rd

Primetime – Dir. Lance Oppenheim

It’s going to be a long month for us British film fans. While America flood the cinemas to see Robert Pattinson’s Primetime, we have to wait to see Lance Oppenheim’s film directorial debut. If you haven’t heard, it takes us back to 2006 when Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) looked to create television history with his TV show, To Catch a Predator. Hansen himself has seen the film and isn’t best pleased by how the show and he were portrayed, going on to say how he isn’t sure what the point of the movie was. We will have to wait to find out the answer to that question ourselves.

• Primetime releases in cinemas on October 28th