Don’t expect many giggles from October movies. It’s spooky season, after all! This month’s new releases include frights like inhumane prison conditions, a zombified man-monster, wrongful incarceration, depression and being a mom. A motley assortment but but each is equivalently terrifying, albeit in very different ways.

‘The Alabama Solution’

Director Andrew Jarecki is known for his hard-hitting exposés, including Emmy-winning “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” a 2015 HBO series investigating the real estate heir suspected of murder. Jarecki now turns his incriminating lens onto the American prison industrial complex with “The Alabama Solution.”

This six-year investigative documentary about the varied injustices of the state’s prison system uses interviews with inmates and

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