New titles on Virgin Media Store this October: buy or rent the biggest movie releases and watch today

Whether you’re looking to enjoy a blockbuster fresh from the cinema or the best in prestige TV, you’ll find a fantastic selection of new movies and TV shows to buy or rent on Virgin Media Store this month.

There’s a double hit of side-splitting comedies to enjoy this month with Freakier Friday and The Naked Gun, as well as blood-curdling horror flicks for the spooky season. And that’s not all, because there’s always something for everyone on Store, including the third Downton Abbey film, as we return to the Yorkshire estate to check in with the upstairs and downstairs residents.

With Virgin Media Store, you can buy and keep or rent this month’s hottest releases. You can buy through your Virgin TV box or at virginmediastore.com or rent through your Virgin TV box. Don’t forget with Premium Release titles, you can now purchase or rent selected films at the same time they’re in cinemas.

Here’s what is on offer on Virgin Media Store in October.

Premium release. Buy or rent now. Cert PG

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunite after 22 years for a sequel to the much-loved body swap movie Freaky Friday, and the title doesn’t lie: things are freakier this time around, with a double body swap. After some domestic squabbles and an unsettling palm-reading episode, generation-gap switcheroos occur involving teenagers Harper (Julia Butters) and Lily (Sophia Hammons), who immediately set about using their new adult status for their own purposes. Anna and Tess are veterans at this, of course – but that doesn’t mean they’ll prevent any zany goings-on in this uproarious comedy.

Premium release. Buy or rent from Monday 13 October. Cert PG

The Crawleys are back for more aristocratic shenanigans in and around the titular stately home. Once again, Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery, Flight Risk) is causing a scandal with her romantic status and the family are down on their luck financially – could handsome American investor Gus (Alessandro Nivola, The Brutalist) solve both problems? Meanwhile below stairs, wedding preparations are well under way… Even without the late Maggie Smith’s acid-tongued Dowager Countess, this is delightful, escapist fun – and despite the title, we wouldn’t be surprised to see more of these movies.

Premium release. Buy or rent now. Cert 15

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as married paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren for this fourth and final film in The Conjuring series. It’s the mid-80s and the Warrens have stepped back from their ghost-hunting career, until the death of a local priest leads them to a family hounded by terrifying visions. In classic movie style, they’re persuaded to take on one last case… Another evocative and satisfyingly creepy instalment in this popular horror series.

Buy now or rent from Tuesday 14 October. Cert 15

Who has the stone face and gravelly voice to do justice to a revival of this classic comedy series? None other than grizzled tough guy Liam Neeson, who takes on the role of Frank Drebin Jr (son of Leslie Nielsen’s original bumbling cop) and finds himself caught up in a major investigation after some criminal types steal an artefact called the Primordial Law Of Toughness Device. Wackiness very much ensues, as a joke-packed script takes Frank and love interest Beth (Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl) through a ridiculous sequence of unlikely events. Will they catch the crooks? It doesn’t really matter when the laughs are guaranteed.

Premium release. Buy or rent from Tuesday 14 October. Cert 15

When bartender Hank (Austin Butler, Elvis) agrees to look after a cat for his sketchy friend Russ (Matt Smith, Last Night In Soho), he has no idea what he’s letting himself in for. Getting beaten up by Russian mobsters is the least of it, as he goes on a bizarre and violent odyssey through the New York underworld. Zoë Kravitz (The Batman), Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) co-star in this hard-boiled black comedy thriller, based on Charlie Huston’s cult novel and set in the 1990s.

Premium release. Buy or rent now. Cert 15

Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager) takes the lead in this adaptation of Stephen King's non-horror novella, a collection of three short tales linked by Hiddleston’s Chuck Krantz. In the first we see heartfelt tributes to Chuck as natural disasters threaten to overwhelm the world; in the second we meet him as a mild-mannered accountant who loves to dance; and in the third, we see his formative childhood years. It’s an unusual but emotive and uplifting film that encourages viewers to reflect on life and loss, with stand-out performances from Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave).

Premium release. Coming soon to buy or rent. Cert 15

Like The Running Man, The Long Walk is based on a Stephen King novel published under the name Richard Bachman. It’s set in a dystopian America where each year, 50 young men must participate in a gruelling endurance walk, with the sole survivor winning a cash prize. The tension builds to phenomenal levels as the participants – including Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) and David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus) – bond, fight, share dreams and march inexorably towards their fate. Director Francis Lawrence has form in this genre: he’s made four of the five Hunger Games films (and is in production on the next).

Premium release. Coming soon to buy or rent. Cert 15

Despite the title, this is the fourth in this series of low-key psychological horror movies centred on a trio of masked home invaders who terrorise residents in creative ways. Maya (Riverdale’s Madelaine Petsch) is recovering in hospital after the events of the previous film, but soon finds that she hasn’t yet escaped the clutches of Scarecrow, Pin-up Girl and Dollface. The authorities aren’t interested in her predicament so Maya must look elsewhere for help. But is everyone who lends a hand doomed to be really, really killed? Gripping and gory stuff from director Renny Harlin, who made action classics like Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger.

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