The October ritual of watching horror movies in the lead-up to Halloween can be exhilarating. Unless, of course, you can’t quite stomach the gory and gruesome, or even the spooky and spine-tingling.

The Warner Bros. streamer has the horror goods. Max hosts a lot of content, but how's its horror selection? Titles rotate throughout the year, and right now you can catch newer films like Midsommar and classics like The Shining. You may find a flick that lets you skip a scary-long search.

Like most of the extras Xbox Game Pass subscribers get beyond the usual drops of new games, these two horror movies require the more premium Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription if you want them. They're part of of Microsoft's larger "Shocktober" event where a ton of horror movies are up to 50% off for the Halloween season,

In Screen Gab no. 151, we fill up your streaming queue for the first weekend of October and catch up with hip hop artist and now TV star Big Freedia.

It Follows is streaming on Peacock for Halloween, so you're just a couple of clicks away from watching Mitchell's film, Maika Monroe's breakout horror performance, and one of the essential horror films of the 21st century so far,