topic Re: Halloween in What's On

Halloween

bigfoot666 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:50:43 GMT

Do Sky not have a licence to show 80s/90s horrow/Halloween films?

Honest question and opponon.

I am cycling through the week's films, they are all new-ish, ok, there is a 2013 evil dead, but no classic horror, no Halloween 80s style, no Nightmare on Elm Street etc, Hellraiser and so on, just those in the recent decade that are on the other channels anyway. Disappointed really, being a horror fan.

Re: Halloween

TimmyBGood — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:52:35 GMT

@bigfoot666

The owners of such content may well calculate that they get a better return from licencing to streaming services (or the studio now has its own streaming platform)

Re: Halloween

Timelord2018 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:11:57 GMT

The Original Friday 13th is airing on Sky Atlantic on 19th October , so at least will be added to Sky Cinema

The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II are on Sky Cinema from Studiocanal, Army Of Darkness aswell, is that from Universal?

Re: Halloween

Timelord2018 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:07:06 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@bigfoot666

The owners of such content may well calculate that they get a better return from licencing to streaming services (or the studio now has its own streaming platform)

Nightmare on Elm Street isn't available anywhere in the UK, not even on HBO Max

Hellraiser films are on Shudder which is just licensed from independent companies.

Re: Halloween

bigfoot666 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:17:51 GMT

Thanks for the all the information guys, appreciated.