Look if you’re going to make a prequel to Stephen King’s It, the only time to release is is in October. That’s when the new series It: Welcome to Derry, premieres on HBO Max. Based on King’s concepts and developed by much of the same team behind the two recent It movies, it (sorry) takes place in the early 1960s and reveals a previous altercation between an earlier generation of kids and Pennywise the evil clown. (Bill Skarsgard will reprise his role from the films as well.) Guessing it goes great for all involved and nothing terrifying happens at all!
Okay, so if the real world these days is scary enough already without a TV show about a demonic clown, HBO and HBO Max also have The Chair Company, a new series from Tim Robinson. Otherwise … yeah, this is Halloween season on streaming. It’s all about horror. HBO Max will also get the streaming premiere of the recent A24 film Bring Her Back, plus a host of classic horror titles, including the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, The Exorcist, and a bunch of Halloween and Insidious movies.
Here’s everything coming to HBO Max in October…
TITLES COMING TO HBO MAX IN OCTOBER
October 12 Days in New York 50 First Dates A Nightmare on Elm Street 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 Alan Partridge All Eyez on Me Beetlejuice Big, Beautiful Tariffs: A Fareed Zakaria Special (CNN Originals) Broken English Bronson Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh Christine Confidence Crime in the Streets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Drag me to Hell Edward Scissorhands Enemy Fay Grim Firestarter Freaks Freddy vs. Jason Friday the 13th (2009) From Hell It Came Gone Girl Gremlins (1984) Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Halloween: Resurrection Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers Hereditary Highway 301 House of Wax (1953) House on Haunted Hill (1958) I Died a Thousand Times I Give it a Year Indestructible Man Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison Insidious: Chapter 2 Insidious: Chapter 3 Interview with the Vampire Intruder in the Dust Isle of the Dead It’s Complicated Krypto Saves the Day: Halloween Havoc Lady in the Lake Los Cronocrimenes Macabre Marcel the Shell with Shoes Mirror Mirror National Velvet Nora Prentiss Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words Page One Pearl: The X-Traordinary Origin Story Phenix City Story Poltergeist (1982) Practical Magic Pride Scooby-Doo (2002) Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Shame Talk to Me (2023) Tension The Black Scorpion The Brothers McMullen The Cyclops The Disembodied
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The Exorcist (1973) The First Monday in May The Gangster The Harvey Girls The Lobster The Monster The Mummy (1959) The Mummy (2017) The Mystery of the Wax Museum The Picture of Dorian Gray The Return of Doctor X The Shining The Sixth Sense The Steel Jungle The Switch The Tattooed Stranger The Unfaithful The Walking Dead (1936) The Watch The Witch Tickled Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Trick ‘r Treat Uncut Gems War for the Planet of the Apes X You Can’t Get Away with Murder Zombies on Broadway
October 2Air India Crash: Declassified (Discovery, 2025)E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, Season 1Mysteries of the Abandoned, Season12 (Discovery)The Friday the 13th Murders, Season 1 (ID)The Real Murders on Elm Street, Season 2 (ID)
October 3Bring Her Back (A24)Where We Call Home, Season 4 (Magnolia Network)
October 6SMILING FRIENDS, Season 3 (Adult Swim)
October 7Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt (CNN Originals)One Day in October, Season 1
October 8Alex vs America, Season 5 (FOOD Network)Baylen Out Loud, Season 2 (TLC)
October 9Vgly, Season 2 (Max Original)
October 10Bugs Bunny Builders, Season 2G (Cartoon Network)Homes With a View, Season 1 (Magnolia Network)Lu & The Bally Bunch, Season 1D (Cartoon Network)The Alabama Solution (HBO Original)The Substance (MUBI)
October 11Bering Sea Gold, Season 19 (Discovery)Impractical Jokers, Season 12A (truTV)
October 12The Chair Company, Season 1 (HBO Original)The Snake Catcher, Season 1 (Animal Planet)
October 157 Little Johnstons, Season 16 (TLC)Graveyard Carz, Season 20Mother May I Murder?, Season 2 (ID)Pan
October 17An Intimate Evening with Adam Pally (HBO Original)Baby Assassins Everyday!, Season 1Beach Cottage Chronicles, Season 5 (Magnolia Network)Ignite, Season 1La Grande Maison Tokyo SpecialLa Grande Maison Tokyo, Season 1Light of My Lion, Season 1Love is for the Dogs, Season 1Mr. Mikami’s Classroom, Season 1Please Die My Beloved, Season 1The Thaw, Season 3 (Max Original)True Beauty, Season 1Until I Destroyed My Husband’s Other Family, Season 1Vivant, Season 1Who Saw The Peacock Dance in the Jungle?, Season 1
October 19Anything But Gray, Season 1 (Magnolia Network)
October 20Haha, You Clowns, Season 1 (Adult Swim)
October 21Armed Only With A Camera: The Life And Death of Brent Renaud (HBO Original)The Simril(l)s: A Family in Black and White, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Originals)
October 22Holmes Family Rescue, Season 3 (HGTV)Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
October 23Expedition X, Season 10 (Discovery)Dangerously Obese, Season 2 (TLC)
October 24Lakeside Retreats, Season 1 (Magnolia Network)Teen Titans Go!, Season 9D (Cartoon Network)
October 26It: Welcome to Derry, Season 1 (HBO Original)
October 27Naked and Afraid Brazil XL, Season 1 (discovery+)
October 28Country Doctor (HBO Original)The United States vs. Harvard, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Originals)
October 29American Monster, Season 13 (ID)Survival of the Beast, Season 1 (Animal Planet)
October 30Fatal Engineering, Season 1 (Science)Sorry, Baby (A24)
October 31House Hunters: Volume 10, Season 246 (HGTV)Jonathan Ross Haunted Homecoming, Season 1 (Travel)Old Home Stories, Season 1 (Magnolia Network)
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