HBO Max to Add 117 New Shows & Movies This Week – Here Are the 3 to Watch

By Phillip Swann
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HBO Max this week (September 29-October 5, 2025) plans to add 117 new TV shows and movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the three to watch, in my humble opinion:

Pearl An X-traordinary Origin Story (2022)
Release Date: Wednesday, October 1
Mia Goth stars as an unhinged young woman whose unrelenting ambition to become a movie star leads to a bloodbath on a Texas farm in 1918. Pearl, a prequel to director Ti West’s X (also coming to HBO Max on Wednesday), may be the superior film here with Goth delivering one of the best and hypnotic performances of the decade. (Martin Scorsese calls Pearl “mesmerizing” and, as usual, he is right.)

Here is my review of X:
X (2022)
Release Date: Wednesday, October 1
Mia Goth stars as a young woman named Maxine who travels with her director/boyfriend in the 1970s to a remote Texas farm to make a “skin” film. Once there, Maxine and her fellow “performers” begin noticing some strange behavior from the elderly couple who lives on the farm. And before you can yell cut, there is some real cutting going on. This modern take on the slasher genre from director Ti West is a brilliant piece of cinema with remarkable performances from Goth in dual roles (Maxine and the bloody-thirsty farm matron) and Jenna Ortega as a production hand. You’ll squeal, laugh and occasionally jump under the couch as West works his magic.

Maxxine (2024)
Release Date: Now Available on HBO Max
The third in the X trilogy is 2024’s Maxxxine, with Goth’s X character in LA during the Night Stalker murder spree in the 1980s. Maxxine is already available on HBO Max and I highly recommend it.

New Shows & Movies Coming to HBO Max This Week

Monday, September 29
Sister Wives, Season 20 (TLC)
Two Guys Garage, Season 24
Women Wearing Shoulder Pads: English Dub, Movie-Length Version (Adult Swim)

Tuesday, September 30
Eva Longoria: Searching For Spain (CNN Original)
Good Cop/Bad Cop, Season 1
My Happy Place (CNN Original)
Prime Minister (HBO Original)

Wednesday, October 1
2 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
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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
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

Thursday, October 2
Air India Crash: Declassified (Discovery, 2025)
E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, Season 1
Mysteries of the Abandoned, Season12 (Discovery)
The Friday the 13th Murders, Season 1 (ID)
The Real Murders on Elm Street, Season 2 (ID)

Friday, October 3
Bring Her Back (A24)
Where We Call Home, Season 4 (Magnolia Network)

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