Best Horror Movies on HBO Max Right Now
HBO Max is streaming 75 horror movies and 1 horror series from the HorroRated archive in the US today. The highest rated are They Will Kill You, Companion and Sinners, all Legendary.
HBO Max draws on the Warner Bros. and HBO libraries, so studio horror sits next to prestige series.
Horror movies on HBO Max, best first
They Will Kill You(2026)
They Will Kill You blurs the line between documentation and horror fiction in ways that make the threat feel present rather than constructed.
Companion(2025)
Iris wakes up to find that her partner Eli is not who she thought he was. The film follows the specific horror of discovering a deception that has been in place for the entire relationship.
Sinners(2025)
Smoke and Stack Ruffin return to their 1932 Mississippi hometown and open a juke joint that draws the local community together. Visitors arrive that night with a very specific interest in what's happening inside.
The Long Walk(2025)
One hundred boys compete in the Long Walk, a national event in an alternate America where the last walker remaining receives any prize they request and the rest die where they stop.
Weapons(2025)
Multiple teenagers in a Connecticut suburb are each connected to a single act of violence in ways that unfold across the film.
The Substance(2024)
Sue Morrow injects the Substance and creates a second younger version of herself. The two halves must share existence within the program's strict rules.
Men(2022)
Harper retreats to the English countryside after a personal tragedy. The village she's staying near and its surrounding land harbor something specific about masculine hostility.
Pearl(2022)
Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother and a husband she didn't choose, and desires the world has no room for.
X(2022)
A film crew in 1979 West Texas rents a farmhouse from an elderly couple to shoot a low-budget production. Pearl, the wife, takes an interest in what they're doing.
Midsommar(2019)
Dani follows her boyfriend and his friends to a remote Harga commune in Sweden months after a personal tragedy. The midsummer festival they attend becomes increasingly difficult to classify as merely cultural.
Us(2019)
Adelaide Wilson and her family encounter perfect doppelgangers of themselves at their Santa Cruz vacation home. The confrontation that follows opens into a larger mystery.
Hereditary(2018)
Annie's mother has just died, and the grief in the Graham household turns out to be the least of what's coming for this family. Something has been arranged for them long before anyone realized it.
Annabelle: Creation(2017)
A group of orphaned girls is placed in the Mullins household in the 1950s, where the parents have been living with a tragedy and something attached to a doll.
It(2017)
Bill Denbrough and the Losers Club spend a summer in 1989 Derry, Maine confronting Pennywise, a shape-shifting entity that has been working the town for centuries.
The Conjuring 2(2016)
Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the Enfield Poltergeist case in 1977 England, involving a single mother and her children in a council house.
Tusk(2014)
Wallace Bryton travels to Manitoba to interview a retired seafarer and finds that the host has a very specific creative project in mind for the visit.
The Conjuring(2013)
Ed and Lorraine Warren are called to examine a Rhode Island farmhouse and find the family has been living with something for years.
Little Shop of Horrors(1986)
Seymour Krelborn works at a Skid Row flower shop and nurtures a strange plant that arrived after a solar eclipse. Audrey II grows quickly once she finds her preferred diet.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)(1984)
Teenagers on Elm Street are sharing nightmares about a burned man with knives for fingers. When the deaths start, one of them has to stay awake long enough to figure out how to stop him.
Scanners(1981)
Cameron Vale has spent his life hearing everyone else's thoughts and it's driven him to the street. A shadowy corporation wants to weaponize what's wrong with him, and someone else's head is about to pay the price for the demonstration.
The Shining(1980)
Jack Torrance moves his family into an empty mountain hotel for the winter to write and recover, but the hotel has other plans for him.
Carrie (1976)(1976)
Carrie White has spent her whole life absorbing cruelty from her mother and her classmates. Prom night is when the account comes due.
The Exorcist(1973)
Chris MacNeil's twelve-year-old daughter has been changing in ways no doctor can explain and when medicine runs out of answers, two priests are brought in. What they find tests everything they believe about what's possible.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)(1968)
A visit to a country cemetery goes wrong, and by nightfall a handful of strangers are nailing boards over the windows of a lonely farmhouse. The dead outside are hungry, and the living inside can't agree on anything.
Gremlins(1984)
A Mogwai named Gizmo arrives as a Christmas gift with three very specific rules. All three get broken on the same night.
Poltergeist(1982)
Strange things are happening in the Freeling house. Then the youngest daughter disappears into the walls.
Evil Dead Burn(2026)
Alice loses her husband and turns to his family for comfort. What she finds instead is a Kandarian dagger, a deadite outbreak, and in-laws who won't survive the reunion.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy(2026)
Lee Cronin's The Mummy brings the Evil Dead Rise sensibility to Universal Monster territory: practical effects, real dread, and a formal confidence that distinguishes it from previous attempts at the property.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice(2024)
Lydia Deetz's teenage daughter summons Betelgeuse through a supernatural accident thirty-six years after the events of the original film.
Heretic(2024)
Hugh and Felix are visitors to a small Utah bed and breakfast when Mr. Reed produces evidence he claims proves God exists and refuses to let them leave without engaging with it.
MaXXXine(2024)
Maxine Minx has survived the massacre at Pearl's farm and is chasing stardom in 1980s Los Angeles. Someone from her past is picking off adult film stars one by one, and the trail leads directly back to her.
Evil Dead Rise(2023)
Ellie arrives at her estranged sons' Los Angeles apartment building at the same time as the Naturom Demonto. The deadite infection moves through the building.
It Chapter Two(2019)
The Losers Club reunites in Derry twenty-seven years after their childhood encounter with Pennywise.
Alien: Covenant(2017)
The Covenant colony ship detours to investigate a signal and finds a world that David, the android from Prometheus, has been using as a laboratory.
Evil Dead(2013)
Mia goes to a remote property with her brother and friends in a final attempt to get clean. Something in the cabin's cellar accelerates the situation beyond recovery.
Orphan(2009)
Kate and John Coleman adopt a nine-year-old girl from a Russian orphanage and bring her home. Esther is not what she appears to be.
Zombieland(2009)
Columbus wakes up in a zombie apocalypse and joins a group of survivors who have developed very specific rules for staying alive.
Evil Dead II(1987)
Ash is back in the cabin and the night ahead of him gets progressively, hilariously, horrifyingly worse. The tape plays again.
The Bride!(2026)
Maggie Gyllenhaal directs The Bride with an interest in the female monster's own experience of being created, giving the story a perspective neither Shelley's novel nor the 1935 film fully occupied.
Death of a Unicorn(2025)
A pharmaceutical researcher discovers a unicorn with healing properties. The corporate response to the discovery escalates beyond what anyone is prepared for.
Final Destination Bloodlines(2025)
A new group escapes a premonition of a highway disaster and finds the order is still being completed. The cycle connects to a family legacy stretching back to the original film.
The Conjuring: Last Rites(2025)
Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate a case in their final years that connects to the larger demonic framework established across the previous Conjuring films.
Salem's Lot(2024)
Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot after decades away and finds that a recent arrival in an old house has been systematically working through the town.
Trap(2024)
Josh Harmon, a serial killer attending his teenage daughter's favorite pop star's concert, discovers the event has been organized specifically around him.
The Nun II(2023)
An investigation into the Nun's activity in France brings Sister Irene back into contact with the entity first encountered in Romania.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It(2021)
Arne Johnson's murder case in 1981 Connecticut involves Ed and Lorraine Warren's claim that he was not responsible for his actions because of demonic influence.
Annabelle Comes Home(2019)
Ed and Lorraine Warren lock the Annabelle doll away in their occult museum. Their daughter's babysitter and a curious friend accidentally set every other cursed object in the room loose in a single night.
The Curse of La Llorona(2019)
Anna Garcia investigates a custody case connected to La Llorona and finds herself and her children targeted by the weeping figure.
Insidious: The Last Key(2018)
Elise Rainier returns to her childhood home in Five Keys, New Mexico to investigate a haunting connected to her past.
The Nun(2018)
Sister Irene and Father Burke investigate the suicide of a young nun at a remote Romanian monastery and encounter what the cloistered community has been containing.
The Mummy(2017)
Dr. Jekyll's monster is discovered in ancient Egypt, brought to London, and things don't stay controlled.
Annabelle(2014)
John and Mia Form bring the Annabelle doll home after a Warren investigation and the entity attached to it pursues what it originally came for.
Final Destination 5(2011)
Sam Lawton foresees a suspension bridge collapse and saves a handful of coworkers before it happens. William Bludworth returns with an unsettling new option, kill someone else and take their remaining years, if any of the survivors want a real way out.
Final Destination 3(2006)
Wendy Christensen has a premonition that her senior class roller coaster is about to derail and pulls several friends off before it does. The photos she took that night hold clues to exactly how each survivor is going to die next.
Open Water(2004)
A couple surfaces from a scuba dive to find the boat gone. Nothing visible in any direction but open ocean.
Final Destination 2(2003)
Kimberly Corman pulls a line of cars out of traffic seconds before a massive highway pileup. The people she saved start dying anyway, in order.
Final Destination(2000)
A teenager has a vision of a plane crash and gets himself and several others off the flight before it happens. Death works back through the list of survivors.
The Blair Witch Project(1999)
Three film students go into the Maryland woods to document a local legend. Only the footage comes back out.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later(1998)
Laurie Strode has been living under a false name for twenty years. Michael Myers finds her anyway.
Interview with the Vampire(1994)
A vampire sits down with a journalist in San Francisco and tells the story of two centuries spent with a companion he never chose and could never escape.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master(1988)
Freddy has been pulled back through a new group of teenagers. One of them figures out she can take something from him when she returns from the dream.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge(1985)
Jesse Walsh moves into Nancy Thompson's old house five years after the original nightmare ended. Freddy Krueger wants inside him, not just inside his dreams.
The Watchers(2024)
Mina and her father and stepmother enter a pocket forest created by a presence that has been observing the outside world for centuries. The rules of the space prevent them from leaving.
Y2K(2024)
Cole and his friend Danny attend a New Year's Eve 1999 house party. The computer crash they were warned about triggers something considerably more dangerous than power outages.
Insidious: The Red Door(2023)
Dalton Lambert is now a college student and his childhood abilities haven't released him. Josh Lambert's final attempt to help his son requires going back into The Further.
The Strangers: Prey at Night(2018)
Kinsey and Mike are staying at a lake community when three masked figures begin a campaign of harassment and violence with no apparent motivation.
Friday the 13th (2009)(2009)
Camp Crystal Lake is reopening and Jason is there to receive the new guests.
The Final Destination(2009)
The survivors of the last premonition are still alive and death is working through the backlog starting with a racetrack disaster.
Freddy vs. Jason(2003)
Freddy Krueger has been using Jason Voorhees to reestablish fear in Springwood. Jason won't stop killing long enough for Freddy to reclaim what he needs.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child(1989)
Alice is pregnant and Freddy has found a route into the waking world through her unborn child. Another group of her friends begins dying.
The Strangers: Chapter 2(2025)
The second chapter of the Strangers reboot trilogy picks up from Maya's previous encounter and extends the scenario through a new setting and new masked figures.
The Strangers: Chapter 1(2024)
Maya and Ryan are passing through a small town when three masked strangers appear outside their motel room door.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)(2010)
Freddy Krueger stalks a new group of Elm Street teenagers in a remake that revisits the original's premise without its invention.
Halloween: Resurrection(2002)
A live internet broadcast sends a group of college students into the Myers house for Halloween night. Michael is home.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers(1995)
Jamie Lloyd escapes a druidic cult with her newborn baby, Michael Myers close behind. Six years of buried mythology about the Curse of Thorn finally, messily surfaces in Haddonfield.
Horror series on HBO Max
IT: Welcome to Derry(2025)
In 1962 Derry, a group of kids connects the disappearances of local children to something ancient and hungry that's been feeding on the town far longer than anyone alive.
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Streaming horror on HBO Max: questions
What is the best horror movie on HBO Max right now?
By HorroRated's scores, They Will Kill You (2026) is the top-rated horror movie streaming on HBO Max as of October 10, 2026, rated Legendary. Companion and Sinners are close behind.
How many horror movies are on HBO Max?
From the HorroRated archive, 75 horror movies and 1 series are streaming on HBO Max in the US as of October 10, 2026. The archive is hand-curated, so this counts the titles HorroRated has reviewed, not every horror title on the service.
How often is this list updated?
Every week, and whenever the archive changes. Availability comes from JustWatch through TMDB and is checked every Monday, and titles that arrived since the previous check are marked new. Services add and drop titles without notice, so check the service before you settle in.
US availability from JustWatch via TMDB, checked October 10, 2026. Scores, verdicts and blurbs are HorroRated’s own; see how we rate.