As it does every month, HBO Max is adding a long list of movies and TV shows – licensed and original – to its catalog, and just in time for the spooky season, it’s bringing plenty of horror content. HBO Max arrived during the peak of the streaming wars with one of the most impressive catalogs in the world of streaming at the time, launching in 2020 to great success. HBO Max continues to be one of the most popular platforms, with a wide variety of movies and TV shows to enjoy.

HBO Max is home to content from the libraries of Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, CNN, Animal Planet, Adult Swim, and many more, ensuring that it has plenty of stuff for viewers of all ages. Throughout September 2026, HBO Max added movies like A Clockwork Orange, Backrooms, and Misery, TV shows like Youth and season 2 of George & Mandy’s First Marriage, and new content from TLC, ID, and other networks.

October 2026 will see HBO Max becoming a go-to platform for Halloween content, with the addition of movies like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Poltergeist, along with more family-friendly options like Space Jam and Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat – and, of course, there will be brand new original content to enjoy as well.

October 1

• Anatomy of a Fall
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
• A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas
• A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas, A: Extra Dope Edition
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Coraline
• Double Wedding
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat
• Final Destination 3
• Freaks
• Freddy vs. Jason
• Friday the 13th
• From Hell It Came
• Ghost Adventures – Season 31 (Discovery)
• House Of Wax
• House On Haunted Hill (1959)
• I’ll See You In My Dreams
• Indestructible Man
• Isle of the Dead
• It Happened in Brooklyn
• Krypto Saves the Day, Season 2B (DC)
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Love Crazy
• Macabre
• Masterminds
• Objective, Burma!
• Ocean’s 11 (1960)
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• Ocean’s Thirteen
• Ocean’s Twelve
• ParaNorman
• Poltergeist
• Roadkill Garage – Season 10
• Scooby-Doo
• Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
• Screaming Eagles
• Shadow of the Thin Man
• Song of the Thin Man
• Space Jam
• Space Jam: A New Legacy
• Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam
• The Black Scorpion
• The Boxtrolls
• The Cyclops
• The Departed
• The Exorcist
• The Hangover Part II
• The Internship
• The Leopard Man
• The Mummy (1959)
• The Mystery of the Wax Museum
• The Post
• The Return of Doctor X
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Seventh Victim
• The Shining
• The Thin Man Goes Home
• The Walking Dead
• Thirteen Women
• Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
• Trick ‘r Treat
• Trouble Along the Way
• War – Season 1 (HBO/Sky Original Series)

War is a legal drama TV series that follows the most powerful lawyers from rival firms Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne. When British tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and international movie star Carla Duval (Sienna Miller) divorce, the firms will stop at nothing to get their clients on top in this ruthless legal battle.

October 2

• Batwheels – Season 3
• Maine Cabin Masters – Season 13 (Magnolia Network)
• Strange: Junji Ito’s Tales for Sleepless Nights – Season 1
• The Torment – Season 1 (HBO Original Series)

The Torment is a drama series that follows a disgraced journalist who returns to her hometown to investigate the unsolved disappearance of her childhood friend, unaware that it will uncover some dangerous and dark truths.

October 3

• Impractical Jokers – Season 13A (truTV)
• Gold Rush – Season 17 (Discovery)

October 4

• Be My Guest with Ina Garten – Season 8 (Food Network)
• Get Jiro – Season 1 (Adult Swim)

October 5

• 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way – Season 8 (TLC)
• Sister Wives – Season 21 (TLC)

October 6

• 90 Day: Hunt for Love – Season 2 (TLC)
• Crazy Rich Asians
• Sweet Deceit – Season 1 (Food Network)
• “Nepal’s Deadly Floods” with Anderson Cooper, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Original)

October 7

• The Serial Killer Connection (ID)

October 8

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• Sin City Rehab – Season 2 (HGTV)
• Top of the World (CNN Films)

October 9

• House Hunters International: Volume 10 – Season 217 (HGTV)
• Rage – Season 2 (HBO Original Series)
• The Housemaid (Lionsgate)

October 10

• OWN Spotlight: Mothers & Daughters: Torn Apart with Iyanla Vanzant (OWN)