The Best Master of Horror Movie in Recent Memory and Everything Else Titles Finally Streaming This Weekend
Weapons, the newest horror movie from Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger, achieved massive commercial success as cinema lovers filled cinemas to share the gasps and laughs in this disturbing and unexpectedly humorous story of a community searching for the truth after 17 children go missing. Currently available the feature on the streaming platform. Horror fans can also watch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s over-the-top horror film Bone Lake on VOD and Michelle Garza Cervera’s reimagining of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu.
A House of Dynamite, a nerve-wracking apocalyptic drama from renowned director Kathryn Bigelow, arrives at the streaming giant. Or you can just stay in and stream the adaptation of the horror master's dark fiction The Long Walk on video on demand.
Below is a summary of the biggest new releases on digital platforms, including the biggest, best, and most popular new movies you can view from your living room.
New on Netflix
Kathryn Bigelow's Latest
- Category: End-of-the-world suspense
- Run time: Nearly two hours
- Director: A celebrated filmmaker
- Featuring: Notable actors
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is famous for high-stakes narratives like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she elevates the tension with worldwide nuclear conflict in A House of Dynamite. Upon detection of an unidentified atomic weapon is detected heading towards the continental U.S., all of the nation's defense strategies are challenged as they work to decipher how to take action.
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Descendent
- Category: Sci-fi suspense
- Run time: 1h 32m
- Helmed by: The director
- Featuring: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger
Main character Sean (a familiar face) is preparing for parenthood when he regains consciousness in a medical facility, apparently after a fall off the roof of the school where he is employed as a guard. But Sean is convinced he was truly taken by extraterrestrials and becomes obsessed with protecting his family from the alien forces.
Latest HBO Max Titles
Weapons
- Type: Horror mystery
- Duration: 128 minutes
- Filmmaker: The director
- Featuring: A star-studded lineup
The town of Maybrook is torn apart by the enigma of the fate of seventeen youngsters from the equivalent educational level who all got up during the night and vanished without a trace. The prior film Barbarian creator follows the perspective of multiple people searching for answers in this powerfully affecting and deeply disturbing film.
The questions with a detailed enigma are always whether that narrative momentum can be maintained, and how the path is in the end valuable. At its core, Weapons delivers impressively. Once its grand finale arrives, it feels predictable yet exciting, ideally structured to counter potential criticisms of “That’s it?”. However, after the scare factor, there are some lingering questions about the exact reasons the narrative used a multi-perspective cast.
Latest Hulu Releases
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- Type: Terrifying drama
- Filmmaker: A skilled filmmaker
- Featuring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Maika Monroe, Raúl Castillo
After delving into the horror of pregnancy with her initial feature Huesera, the filmmaker addresses the anxiety of hiring help with a new version of the classic suspense film. The character Polly (a familiar face) is a affluent parent who hires a new nanny (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but discovers she is unaware who she’s allowed inside.
The Unholy Trinity
- Category: Western
- Duration: Over an hour and a half
- Filmmaker: Richard Gray
- Starring: Notable actors
The protagonist (the actor) heads to the setting after his father is executed and becomes entangled with the town’s sheriff (the actor) and a persuasive bandit (Samuel L. Jackson) searching for the fortune he assisted in stealing. He needs to pick where his loyalties lie through a sequence of gunfights that endanger the community's unity.
New to rent
J. J. Perry's Movie
- Type: Post-apocalyptic action
- Run time: 106 minutes
- Filmmaker: An action specialist
- Featuring: A strong cast
The planet is in disarray after a enormous electromagnetic burst wiped out technology across the globe. An autocratic leader (the actor) hires Jake (a familiar face) to collect valuable artifacts as he attempts to reestablish order. But securing the artwork in the nation proves to be a very dangerous task.
The Erotic Thriller
- Category: Provocative drama
- Duration: 94 minutes
- Helmed by: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
- Cast: Skilled actors
Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan wanted to be sure no one considered it a straight thriller. The exaggerated, violent feature follows a couple whose romantic weekend is interrupted by two others who put their relationship to the test by promoting cheating. But the stakes aren’t just erotic – the enigmatic intruders are also murderers.
The Documentary
- Type: Documentary
- Length: 102 minutes
- Director: {Alexandre O. Philippe|