11 movies to check out on Netflix in October

is a Swedish horror-comedy directed by Patrik Eklund about a group of municipal employees on a team-building work retreat who not only have to deal with coworker tension but a masked killer with an unapologetic disregard for the employee handbook. Not many Swedish horror films make it Stateside but don’t count them out; the good ones include Let The Right One In and Häxan. The Conference adds comedy to the horror, which only piques our interest even more.

Seth Rogen plays a journalist who reunites with his childhood crush (Charlize Theron) who just happens to be running for president in the political comedy directed by Jonathan Levine. The A.V. Club’s writes of this unlikely underdog fantasy, “Theron is marvelous. She conveys the poise, intelligence, and compassion that would make Charlotte a viable candidate, all while meting out glimpses of the down-to-earth person you could see actually falling for someone like Fred. If the two stars have chemistry, she goes above and beyond generating it.”

The documentary The Devil On Trial, directed by Christopher Holt, sheds light on the only murder trial in U.S. history to use “demonic possession” as a legal defense. Pictured above and featured in the doc are Ed and Lorraine Warren, self-professed “demonologists” who figured prominently in the case and were played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, which is based on this story. The doc explores our fear of the unknown and includes eyewitness accounts of allegedly possessed people.

Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale, and Bokeem Woodbine play the titular “old dads” who sell their company to a Millennial and struggle to relate to a post-Reagan reality and changing cultural norms. Directed and co-written by Burr, is one of those generational-clash comedies that makes its Gen X leads seem like they just dropped in via a hot tub time machine from 1987. Becoming a father later in life reportedly inspired Burr to pen the script.

David Yates’ crime drama is based on the 2022 book of the same name by Evan Hughes. Emily Hunt plays high school dropout Liza Drake, who gets a job at a failing pharmaceutical company in Florida only to get tangled up in a criminal conspiracy. The movie also stars Chloe Coleman as her daughter, Chris Evans as a pharmaceutical sales rep, and Andy Garcia as Liza’s boss, as well as Catherine O’Hara and Jay Duplass.

is a Spanish horror movie directed by Paco Plaza and set after the Spanish Civil War. Aria Bedmar plays Narcisa, a newbie nun with supernatural gifts who shows up at a school for girls—formerly a convent—to become a teacher. A series of strange occurrences pulls back the veil on the terrible secrets that haunt the school’s inhabitants. Sister Death also opens the 56th Sitges Film Festival in Spain on October 5.