40 best horror movies and shows to watch on Max this Halloween

Max has unveiled its complete lineup of content releasing on the platform in October, offering an exciting array of horror movies and shows for the month. As expected, viewers can look forward to a mix of highly anticipated new releases, returning series, and classic horror favorites that promise to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

Overall, Max knows just what its subscriber base needs this Halloween season by ensuring a spine-tingling month of entertainment. Below, we shared a list of 40 horror movies and shows to check out on Max this spooky season.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Max release date: Oct. 1, 2024

One of the classic horror films dropping on Max just in time for Halloween is A Nightmare on Elm Street, the first installment in the highly successful A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. It's a slasher focusing on a group of teenagers terrorized by an undead child murderer known as Freddy Krueger, who can haunt and murder his victims in their dreams.

Annabelle: Creation (2017)

Max release date: Oct. 1, 2024

Annabelle: Creation is a supernatural horror film that serves as a prequel to the 2014 film Annabelle. Some people even say it's the best and scariest Annabelle movie in The Conjuring Universe. It centers around a nun and several girls from an orphanage who, after moving into a grieving couple's old home, begin to experience disturbing supernatural occurrences linked to a doll possessed by a malevolent spirit.

Gremlins (1984)

Max release date: Oct. 1, 2024

Gremlins is easily one of the best horror comedies ever made. It follows a young man named Billy Peltzer, who is gifted a seemingly innocent small, furry creature called a Mogwai by his father as a Christmas present. However, there are three important rules that Billy must not break as a Mogwai owner, or there will be severe consequences. Those rules are never to expose the pet to bright light, never get it wet, and never feed it after midnight. Billy names his pet Gizmo.

But everything goes wrong after Billy breaks two of the rules. Gizmo ends up spawning several other Mogwai that transform into malevolent, destructive creatures who immediately begin wreaking havoc on the town of Kingston Falls.

It (2017)

Max release date: Oct. 1, 2024

Based on Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same title, It follows a group of outcast children who find themselves facing their deepest, darkest fears when they encounter an ancient, shape-shifting evil entity that appears as a clown named Pennywise.

Every 27 years, Pennywise awakens to feed on the children of Derry, Maine, before going back into hibernation. With Pennywise back on the prowl, the group of kids must band together to put a stop to the malevolent spirit once and for all.

Poltergeist (1982)

Max release date: Oct. 1, 2024

Another classic horror film to be released on Max just in time for Halloween is Poltergeist. It's a supernatural horror flick following a suburban family who discover that their home is haunted by malevolent spirits. These spirits end up abducting the family's youngest daughter by drawing her in through a television set.

They then take her to a parallel dimension beyond the physical world. Now, it's up to the rest of the family to confront the dark forces that have taken the young girl in order to save her and restore peace to their lives.

Salem's Lot (2024)

Max release date: Oct. 3, 2024

Salem's Lot is one of Max's highly anticipated new releases this year, and it's coming out at the beginning of October! It's based on Stephen King's 1975 book 'Salem's Lot and centers around a struggling author who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot in search of inspiration for his new book, only to find out that a bloodthirsty vampire is terrorizing the town.

Gremlins: The Wild Batch (2024)

Max release date: Oct. 3, 2024

Gremlins: The Wild Batch is the second season of the hit animated horror-comedy series Gremlins. It serves as a prequel to the 1984 film Gremlins and its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch. In the second season, viewers follow Gizmo, Sam, and Elle as they travel to San Francisco in search of a new group of evil Mogwai who are wreaking havoc on the city.

Caddo Lake (2024)

Max release date: Oct. 10, 2024

Caddo Lake is a horror-thriller film produced by M. Night Shyamalan. It centers around an eight-year-old girl who mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake. Her disappearance leads to secrets resurfacing and causes a series of past deaths and disappearances to link together, forever changing an already broken family's history.

MaXXXine (2024)

Max release date: Oct. 18, 2024

After a successful theatrical run, Ti West's MaXXXine is finally headed to streaming via Max this October. It's a slasher film that serves as a direct sequel to X (2022). It's set in the '80s and focuses on aspiring actress Maxine Minx as she pursues her dream of making it big in Hollywood. But she soon finds her plans thwarted when she becomes the target of a mysterious killer.

Trap (2024)

Max release date: Oct. 25, 2024

Trap is arguably one of the best horror movies to come out in 2024. It revolves around a father who takes his daughter to her favorite pop star's concert only to discover that the police have set up an elaborate trap at the venue to capture an infamous serial killer known as "The Butcher," who is believed to be in attendance. The kicker is that the father is the actual serial killer. Dun dun duuun!

Here are a bunch of more horror/horror-adjacent titles set to be released on Max in October 2024:

• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) - Oct. 1
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) - Oct. 1
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) - Oct. 1
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) - Oct. 1
• A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) - Oct. 1
• Annabelle Comes Home (2019) - Oct. 1
• Doctor Sleep (2019) - Oct. 1
• Freddy vs. Jason (2003) - Oct. 1
• Godzilla vs. Biollante (1992) - Oct. 1
• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1998) - Oct. 1
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - Oct. 1
• I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987) - Oct. 1
• Interview with the Vampire (1994) - Oct. 1
• It: Chapter Two (2019) - Oct. 1
• Misery (1990) - Oct. 1
• Stephen King's It (1990) - Oct. 1
• The Conjuring (2013) - Oct. 1
• The Conjuring 2 (2016) - Oct. 1
• The Curse of La Llorona (2019) - Oct. 1
• The Return of Godzilla (1985) - Oct. 1
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) - Oct. 1
• Traffik (2018) - Oct. 1
• Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans season 1 - Oct. 2
• Expedition X season 8 - Oct. 3
• Velma: This Halloween Needs To Be More Special! - Oct. 3
• Scariest House in America season 1 - Oct. 4
• Kids Baking Championship: Scary Good - Oct. 7
• I Am Not A Monster: The Lois Riess Murders - Oct. 15
• Paranormal Caught on Camera season 8 - Oct. 28
• People Magazine Investigates season 8 - Oct. 28
  

We can't wait to check out these horror titles on Max this October! Will you be watching any of the shows and movies listed above?

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