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’ (2025)
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.
Weapons is streaming on HBO Max.
‘It’ (2017)
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.
It is streaming on HBO Max.
‘Sinners’ (2025)
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.
Sinners is streaming on HBO Max.
‘Talk to Me’ (2023)
The TikTok generation really blows it with their encounter with the supernatural in Talk to Me. A couple of high school students have incontrovertible proof of the afterlife, and what do they do with it? They use it to get high. They’ve got an embalmed severed hand that can invite spirits into their bodies, which gives them a temporary high. But if they don’t break the connection in 90 seconds, then some seriously bad stuff is gonna happen.
Mia (Sophie Wilde) makes that mistake when she lets Riley (Joe Bird) — the younger brother of her friend, Jade (Alexandra Jensen) — use the hand. During Riley’s possession, the spirit of Mia’s late mother enters his body. Because Mia didn’t break the connection in time, that leaves Riley at the mercy of some bloodthirsty ghosts. And they have no mercy for him or anyone foolish enough to contact them.
Talk to Me is streaming on HBO Max.
‘The Witch’ (2016)
Nearly a decade ago, Anya Taylor-Joy had her breakout performance in The Witch. Director Robert Eggers set the story in the early 17th century, as a young girl, Thomasin (Taylor-Joy), and her family live in exile from their Puritan village. Neither of Thomasin’s parents, William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie), makes things easy for her. Especially when her infant brother, Samuel, is kidnapped out from under her nose.
Thomasin takes the blame, but a witch (Bathsheba Garnett) is the real culprit. The witch comes for the children, one by one, and there’s only so much that this family can take before it breaks. Something terrible is unfolding in these woods, and there may be no one left to tell the tale by the time the witch is finished.
The Witch is streaming on HBO Max.
