5 Scariest HBO Max Movies to Stream on Halloween 2025

If you’re planning to stay home during this Halloween, then HBO Max should be your streaming destination.

All of the major streamers are swimming in horror flicks right now, but HBO Max has the most potent collection of recent horror hits.

To set the stage for All Hallows’ Eve, Watch With Us has selected the five scariest HBO Max movies to stream on Halloween 2025.

These are the kind of movies best enjoyed with the lights on if you get scared easily.

Weapons director Zach Cregger frames his recent box-office hit as a dark fairy tale, as seventeen children run off into the night at the same time in the same way. Their teacher, Justine Gandy (Julia Garner), is ostracized by the town, but she’s the only one who seems to notice that Alex (Cary Christopher) — the only child in her class who didn’t run away — is facing something odd in his home.

Meanwhile, Archer Graff (Josh Brolin) — the father of one of the missing kids — starts his own investigation into what happened that night. On his own, Archer doesn’t have the info he needs to solve the mystery. But he knows enough to point the way to a threat that neither he nor the rest of the town fully understands.

Who’s the title character of Stephen King‘s It? That would be Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård), an unspeakably evil entity that’s been preying on the children of Derry for generations. In 1988, Pennywise murders a seven-year-old boy, Georgie Denbrough (Jackson Robert Scott), in a particularly gruesome way. That leaves Georgie’s slightly older brother, Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher), determined to stop the creature.

Bill, Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis), Richie Tozier (Finn Wolfhard), Mike Hanlon (Chosen Jacobs), Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer) and Stan Uris (Wyatt Oleff) call themselves the Losers Club because they’re the social outcasts in their school. After each of the kids encounters Pennywise in different forms, they attempt to face him themselves before he can strike again.

Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners went a long way towards making vampires scary again. The story is set in the Prohibition era, and features Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers, Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore. The Smokestack twins are former soldiers and former gangsters who think they’ve seen everything. But they’ve never dealt with anything like Remmick (Jack O’Connell), the vampire who is drawn to the opening of their juke joint.

Remmick may not be able to enter by himself, but he preys on the brothers’ customers, including Stack’s former lover, Mary (Hailee Steinfeld). It doesn’t take long at all for Remmick to put together an undead army and menace the remaining survivors. And he knows almost everything he needs to claim their lives and their souls.