Lurker Moves to HBO Max and MUBI After Sundance Premiere — Movies 2025
Lurker is part of movies 2025 now, but the path to watching it outside the United States still runs through a regional lock. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival before its theatrical release on August 22, 2025, and it is available in the U.S. on HBO Max and MUBI as of May 15, 2026.
For viewers abroad, the practical route is a VPN service that connects to a U.S. server and assigns a U.S. IP address, then an active HBO Max subscription. That is the only viewing method laid out in the source for international access, which makes the streaming window less about convenience and more about geography.
Sundance to August 22
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere put Lurker on the festival circuit before it reached theaters on August 22, 2025. That sequence matters because it marks the film’s move from festival title to commercial release, the point at which a wider audience could start finding it through standard distribution rather than only through festival screenings.
Lurker tells the story of Matthew, a lonely young man who meets rising music sensation Oliver and enters his private social circle. Matthew’s growing obsession begins affecting every relationship around him, and the film uses that setup to move through fame, identity, obsession, and the emotional emptiness hidden beneath modern celebrity culture.
HBO Max and MUBI
As of May 15, 2026, Lurker streams on HBO Max and MUBI in the United States. It can also be bought or downloaded on Amazon Video and Apple TV, while rentals are listed on Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, and Apple TV.
That menu gives U.S. viewers three different ways in: subscription streaming, digital purchase, or rental. For anyone outside the country, the access point the source spells out is HBO Max through a VPN, which means the user must first appear to be connecting from the U.S. before starting playback.
VPN Access Outside US
Viewers outside the United States can use a VPN service to access HBO Max from anywhere in the world. The process the source describes is direct: connect to a U.S. server, receive a U.S. IP address, and stream Lurker with an active HBO Max subscription.
That leaves international viewers with one clean option and one obvious constraint: the film is available, but not natively everywhere. For a title that moved from Sundance to a theatrical run and then into U.S. streaming, the remaining barrier is not the film itself but the region it is licensed to serve.
