Halloween is certainly a pop culture high holy day, and the question of how – or even if – we will celebrate weighs heavy on the mind in these uncertain times.

Will your community allow trick-or-treating? If they do, should you participate? Should you have a Halloween party? Will Home Depot stock more of those awesome 12-foot skeletons everyone is coveting? Will we make it through spooky season without Halloween-themed Peeps?

We can’t answer those questions for you, although we feel that we can probably live without Peeps. But we still want to know: how can we celebrate responsibly?

As always, streaming comes to the rescue. Many services offer up Halloween movie marathons, and in the case of ‘The Witches’, you can now see a brand new movie from your couch when it premieres on HBO Max on October 22nd.

Originally planned for a wide theatrical release, thanks to our least favorite Pandemic ‘The Witches’ is going direct to streaming nationally, though it will still get an international theatrical release.

Based on a Roald Dahl story, ‘The Witches’ stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, and Stanley Tucci, as well as the voice of Chris Rock.

A coven of witches (natch) who really, really, don’t like kids descends on a fancy hotel with a diabolical plan to turn every kid into a mouse, because that would make things better. Somehow. Oh, and Hathaway dons some Joker-inspired lipstick and a weird Teutonic accent.

A movie based on the book was first made in 1990 and starred Anjelica Huston, but had anemic box office results despite good reviews.

Will you be watching? See the trailer below and let us know!