Last Year’s 92% Rotten Tomatoes Horror Hit Is Taking Over Streaming Right Now
Eye for an Eye, the 2025 horror breakout with a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score, has rocketed to No. 1 on HBO Max—now the streamer’s most-watched movie and the top-ranked film on streaming charts.
HBO Max has a new top dog, and it is not a legacy franchise or a comfort rewatch. It is last year’s indie horror Eye for an Eye, which quietly did its theatrical run in 2025 and is now ripping up the streamer’s charts.
HBO Max’s current champ
As of February 16, 2026, Eye for an Eye is the #1 movie globally on HBO Max. It is also sitting at the top of broader streaming analytics rankings, which is a fancy way of saying a lot of people are pressing play. Here is how the HBO Max movie Top 10 shakes out right now:
- #1 Eye for an Eye (2025)
- #2 Valentine’s Day
- #3 M3GAN 2.0
- #4 Land of the Lost
- #5 28 Years Later
- #6 28 Days Later
- #7 Friday the 13th
- #8 28 Weeks Later
- #9 Woman of the Hour
- #10 Eddington
What the movie is
Eye for an Eye follows Anna, a teenager who relocates from New York to Florida after losing her parents, moving in with her grandmother to piece life back together. She falls in with a new crowd, the kind of instantly tight-knit teen group that looks harmless until it absolutely is not. One violent incident later, Anna is in over her head and trying to claw her way out.
Who made it
The film marks the feature debut of director Colin Tilley. The screenplay comes from Elisa Victoria and Michael Tully. Whitney Peak leads as Anna, with support from Laken Giles, Finn Bennett, Golda Rosheuvel, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Carson Minniear, among others.
How it is playing with audiences and critics
Over on Rotten Tomatoes, Eye for an Eye holds a 92% critics score and a 71% audience score. The general read: it hooks fast and stays gripping, even if the setup feels familiar. Reviewers praised the execution and focus, called it pretty effective despite a not-exactly-new premise, and highlighted strong practical effects. The knocks are about pacing and depth — some wanted more backstory for certain characters and felt a few slower passages stretched the runtime.
Bottom line: a lean, confidently made debut that is overperforming on streaming — and clearly earning plenty of curious clicks from horror fans and weekend channel-surfers alike.