HBO Max’s Halloween section for October, named Horror Comes Home, sorts the service’s horror movies and series into rows by theme, including Stephen King adaptations, The Conjuring films, and a family row with Beetlejuice and Scooby-Doo. Evil Dead Burn joined on October 2, and a three-part documentary series, The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story, starts October 11.
The Rows, the Essential Horror Channel, and the Price
The section is a page on HBO Max headed Halloween & Horror Movies and Shows, with matching rows on the home screen, and HBO Max says it runs throughout October. It groups movies and series that are on the service under row names. The page has six rows: Must-Scream Horror, Stephen King: The King of Fears, Catch Up on the Conjuring Universe, Unleash the Monster, Haunted Hall of Fame, and Family-Friendly Scares. HBO Max’s announcement names three more, A Killer Movie Marathon, Creature Features, and What’s Around The Corner.
HBO Max also added a channel inside the app, Essential Horror, which plays a mix of series and films from its horror catalog. Plans start at $10.99 a month, by the price on HBO Max’s Halloween page.
New on HBO Max This Month
- Evil Dead Burn (October 2): the film is streaming only on HBO Max. A woman who has lost her husband stays with his family at their secluded home, and one by one they turn into Deadites. Sébastien Vaniček directed it, and Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi produced it.
- The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story (Sundays, October 11 to 25): a three-part HBO documentary series about the 1985 killing of Dorothy Lou Thompson, who owned a pet cemetery outside New Orleans. Episodes are at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific on HBO and HBO Max on October 11, October 18, and October 25.
- Backrooms (since September 25): HBO Max’s announcement calls it A24’s highest-grossing film, in the United States and worldwide. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, and Mark Duplass, and I covered it in my Backrooms article.
- Also streaming now: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, The Strangers: Chapter 2, and Undertone.
The 78 Titles HBO Max Named, Row by Row
HBO Max’s announcement lists 78 different titles across five rows, and 17 of them appear in two rows.
Must-Scream Horror
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- Bring Her Back
- Caddo Lake
- Carnival of Souls
- Companion
- Death of a Unicorn
- Final Destination Bloodlines
- Hereditary
- It: Welcome to Derry
- MaXXXine
- Midsommar
- Talk to Me
- The Cabin in the Woods
- The Craft
- The Exorcist (1973)
- The Lighthouse
- The Watchers
- Us
- Weapons
A Killer Movie Marathon
- Eyes Without a Face
- Final Destination (2000)
- Final Destination 2
- Final Destination 3
- Final Destination 5
- Final Destination Bloodlines
- Freddy vs Jason
- Friday the 13th (2009)
- Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later
- Halloween: Resurrection
- MaXXXine
- Pearl: The X-Traordinary Origin Story
- The Final Destination (2009)
- Trap
- X
Haunted Hall of Fame
- Annabelle
- Evil Dead (2013)
- Evil Dead 2 (1987)
- Evil Dead Burn
- Evil Dead Rise
- Folklore
- House
- It (2017)
- It Chapter 2
- It Comes at Night
- Talk To Me
- The Conjuring
- The Conjuring 2
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
- The Curse of La Llorona
- The Exorcist (1973)
- The Nun
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Creature Features
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Death of a Unicorn
- Dust Bunny
- From Hell It Came
- Gremlins
- Gremlins 2: New Batch
- I Was a Teenage Zombie
- Indestructible Man
- Interview with the Vampire
- Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
- Red Riding Hood
- Salem’s Lot (2024)
- The Black Scorpion
- The Bride!
- The Brood
- The Cabin In The Woods
- The Cyclops
- The Leopard Man
- The Lure
- The Walking Dead (1936)
- The Watchers
- The Wolfman
- Tusk
- Vampyr
- Zombieland
- Zombieland 2: Double Tap
What’s Around The Corner
- Annabelle
- Backrooms
- Evil Dead (2013)
- Evil Dead Burn
- Halloween: Resurrection
- Insidious: The Red Door
- Kwaidan
- Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
- Night of the Living Dead
- Salem’s Lot (2024)
- Thanksgiving
- The Conjuring
- The Curse of La Llorona
- The Last of Us
- The Nun
- The Strangers: Prey at Night
- Us
More Rows on HBO Max’s Halloween Page
HBO Max’s page has four rows that are not in the announcement’s lists, and these are the titles each one showed on October 4:
- Stephen King: The King of Fears: The Long Walk, The Outsider, Stephen King’s It, and Salem’s Lot
- Catch Up on the Conjuring Universe: The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Annabelle: Creation, and The Nun
- Unleash the Monster: Sinners, The Last of Us, Night of the Living Dead, and The Lure
- Family-Friendly Scares: Beetlejuice (PG), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (PG-13), Practical Magic (PG-13), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PG), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PG), Interview with the Vampire (R), Scooby-Doo (PG), and Trick ‘r Treat (R)
Two movies in the family row are rated R, and my kids’ Halloween movies guide lists the rating for each title on every service.
Haunted Houses, Costumes, and Theater Screenings Tied to These Movies
- Evil Dead Burn has a haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights at both Universal Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood. My Evil Dead Burn house article covers both.
- Sinners has a house at both events too, and John Murdy, creative director of Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood, walked through the Hollywood house with the lights on in my Sinners house article.
- The Conjuring: Beyond Fear, an interactive walkthrough, is at four Six Flags parks this fall: Cedar Point, Carowinds, Canada’s Wonderland, and Kings Island.
- IT: Welcome to Derry is in the Must-Scream Horror row with all eight episodes of its first season, and Spirit Halloween’s 6-foot-10 Pennywise animatronic is tied to the series.
- Backrooms has four official costumes at Spirit Halloween, priced from $12.99 to $59.99, in my Backrooms costumes article.
- Trick ‘r Treat and The Shining are back in theaters in Regal’s 31 Screams on Screen, one horror movie a night in October for $7.99.
More Halloween Streaming
- The new horror movies and series on every service are in my Halloween 2026 streaming guide, by date.
- This year’s Halloween specials and their air dates are in my Halloween TV specials guide.
HBO Max’s Halloween section is at hbomax.com/collections/halloween, and plans start at $10.99 a month.
