February is a great month to embrace love — or at least your love of horror movies. If a spooky binge is in order, you’ll find excellent classics and (as well as freakishly good new releases) on Max.
Whether you’re eyeballing Carrie or Evil Dead Rise, you can’t go wrong with any of the 10 creepy flicks below. All these films received generally favorable reviews or better, according to Metacritic. If you’re wondering what Max is all about, here’s more on the streaming service, which unites the HBO Max and Discovery Plus libraries.
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‘Midsommar’ (2019).
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Sissy Spacek stars as the eponymous Carrie.
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George A. Romero’s classic horror film \"Night of the Living Dead\" is more than a monster movie about zombies, it put society under a masterful magnifying glass.
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