Amazon Prime Video Top 10 Shows and Movies: New Releases and Most Popular Today, October 31

Peter Capaldi, The Devil’s Hour

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Happy Amazween! (The portmanteau works better with Hulu, honestly.) If you’re looking for a good scary movie to watch on Amazon Prime Video, we have a great list of appropriately frightening flicks. But if you’re just in the mood for something good to watch, a great place to start is with the most popular movies and shows. There are two new entries on the list that can double as good Halloween watches: The Devil’s Hour, a supernatural thriller series starring Peter Capaldi as a mysterious weirdo, and Run Sweetheart Run, a terrifying romp starring Game of Thrones‘ Pilou Asbæk as an unstoppable monster (or maybe just a jerk).

The most popular new movies and shows on Prime Video are below, but we’ll also chime in on whether or not they’re worth watching. Just because something is popular, that doesn’t mean it’s good, right? And to help you plan what you’ll watch next, we’ve added the new shows and movies coming to Prime Video, too.

New Releases on Prime Video:

• The Devil’s Hour (2022) – Creepy thriller series starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine as a woman who has visions of murders. (Oct. 28)
• Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) – Film follow-up to the popular ITV and PBS period drama. (Oct. 28)
• Run Sweetheart Run (2022) – Feminine defiance meets toxic masculinity in this horror film about a woman trying to escape an unstoppable assailant. (Oct. 28)

Coming Soon to Prime Video:

• A whole bunch of licensed movies, such as Kingdom of Heaven and War Horse – Here’s everything coming to Amazon Prime Video in November
• Cujo (1983) – Bad dog! (Nov. 2)
• En donde estan los ladrones? (2017) – A man has to uncover a criminal network. (Nov. 2)
• The Cabin in the Woods (2012) – Drew Goddard’s insane, meta horror film. (Nov. 3)

Amazon Prime Video Top 10 Shows and Movies: October 28

Top 10 TV shows and movies on Amazon Prime Video

Jack Reynor, The Peripheral

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1. The Peripheral

For fans of: VR, Westworld, complex sci-fi
Is it good?: The sci-fi series is good for hardcore fans of the genre’s literary roots [Review]
Trailer | Friday’s rank: 1

2. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

For fans of: Elves, orcs, dwarves, hobbits, etc.
Is it good?: It lives up to the high expectations placed on it [Review]
Trailer | Friday’s rank: 2

3. Blacklight

For fans of: Liam Neeson shooting dudes, badass grandpas
Is it good?: Nope!
Trailer | Friday’s rank: 5

4. The Devil’s Hour

For fans of: Evil Peter Capaldi, creepy kids
Is it good?: It’s a pretty fun supernatural thriller with some great performances
Trailer | Friday’s rank: n/a

5. Reacher

For fans of: Huge dudes kicking butt and doing detective work
Is it good?: Amazon’s hit action show is great and will be around for a long time [Review]
Trailer | Friday’s rank: 3

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Pilou Asbæk and Ella Balinska, Run Sweetheart Run

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6. Run Sweetheart Run

For fans of: Bad dates, thrillers
Is it good?: It should be better than it is
Trailer | Friday’s rank: n/a

7. The Terminal List

For fans of: Chris Pratt, military thrillers, tough guys 
Is it good?: It’s a solid shoot ’em up adaptation of Jack Carr’s book [Review]
Trailer | Friday’s rank: 4

8. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan

For fans of: CIA thrillers, traveling the world and shooting at it, Jim Halpert
Is it good?: It’s a competent book-to-TV adaptation that dad loves
Trailer | Friday’s rank: 8

9. The Boys

For fans of: Superheroes, superjerks, superviolence
Is it good?: It’s one of TV’s best, and certainly the best satirical superhero series
Trailer | Friday’s rank: 6

10. The Northman

For fans of: Blood, dismemberment, pillaging
Is it good?: This tale of Viking revenge is so good
Trailer | Friday’s rank: 7

Based on Amazon Prime Video’s Top 10 Movies and TV Shows list for Monday, Oct. 31