Horror Movies on HBO Max: Hammer Films, It Chapter 2, Us, to Arrive in October – Den of Geek

Those first three films, especially The Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula, reinvented those iconic monsters for the first time since the heyday of Universal Pictures in the 1930s, putting them in color for the first time and, accordingly, adding more blood and gore to the proceedings. They also established Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the pre-eminent horror team of their era.

Many Hammer films were difficult to see in the decades following the companys late 70s decline, but efforts like this by HBO Max and Shudder, as well as home video outlets like Scream Factory, are restoring the Hammer catalog to its original glory film by film.

But thats not all HBO Max has in store for the horror fans favorite month! Also coming to the service in October are recent high-profile titles like last years It: Chapter Two and Jordan Peeles Us, his acclaimed follow-up to Get Out.

Meanwhile, other notable older titles surfacing in time for Halloween include David Finchers 1995 modern classic Se7en (which will always be a horror movie to us), George A. Romeros Day of the Dead (1985), the unnerving found footage shark attack tale Open Water (2004) and David Cronenbergs early psychic horror yarn Scanners (1981).

There are also a whole batch of remakes and sequels showing up as well, including Black Christmas (2019), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and its 2007 sequel, the prequel The Thing (2011), Critters 2 (1988) and 4 (1992), The Haunting (1999), the musical version of The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and more.

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Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero