October Faction
Two monster hunters whose teenage children do not know what the family business is.
October Faction opens with a main title sequence of 11 seconds.
At 11 seconds, it opens well under the 50-second median for horror sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Netflix in 2020, when Top Boy, Big Mouth and Cobra Kai were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
11sCompilation channel, labelled as the first season's official title card.
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