Weapons, the latest horror movie from Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as audiences flocked to theaters to share the gasps and laughs in this unsettling and surprisingly funny story of a community looking for answers after 17 children go missing. Now you can find the film on HBO Max for the first time. Horror fans can also catch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s absurd slasher flick Bone Lake on VOD and Michelle Garza Cervera’s remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu.
A House of Dynamite, an extremely tense nuclear thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, explodes onto Netflix. Or you can just sit on your couch and watch the adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian novel The Long Walk on VOD.
Here’s a rundown of the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, including the biggest, best, and most popular new movies you can watch at home right now.
New on Netflix
A House of Dynamite
- Genre: Apocalyptic thriller
- Run time: 1h 52m
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow
- Cast: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso
Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow is known for tense, political dramas like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty and she raises those stakes global thermonuclear war in A House of Dynamite. When a single unattributed nuclear missile is detected heading towards the continental U.S., all of the American military’s contingency plans are put to the test as they try to figure out how to respond.
New on AMC Plus
Descendent
- Genre: Science fiction thriller
- Run time: 1h 32m
- Director: Peter Cilella
- Cast: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger
Sean (Ross Marquand of The Walking Dead) is expecting his first child when he wakes up in the hospital, seemingly having fallen off the roof of the school where he works as a security guard. But Sean is convinced he was actually abducted by aliens and becomes obsessed with protecting his family from the invaders.
New on HBO Max
Weapons
- Genre: Horror mystery
- Run time: 2h 8m
- Director: Zach Cregger
- Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich
The town of Maybrook is torn apart by the mystery of what happened to 17 children from the same third-grade class who all got up during the night, ran into the darkness, and disappeared. Barbarian director Zach Cregger follows the perspective of multiple people searching for answers in this emotionally rich and deeply disturbing film.
From our review:
The questions with an elaborate mystery are always whether that narrative momentum can be sustained, and whether the journey is ultimately worthwhile. On the most elemental level, Weapons pays off big time. Once its grand finale falls into place, it feels both inevitable and delightfully fresh, perfectly timed to refute (or at least drown out) any mutterings of “That’s it?” Yet as the horror-movie high wears off, there are some lingering questions about why, precisely, this story required a multiple-POV ensemble approach.
New on Hulu
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- Genre: Horror thriller
- Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
- Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Maika Monroe, Raúl Castillo
After delving into the horror of pregnancy with her directorial debut Huesera, Michelle Garza Cervera takes on the nightmare of finding reliable childcare with a remake of Curtis Hanson’s 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Polly (Maika Monroe) is a wealthy suburban mom who hires a new nanny (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but realizes she doesn’t know who she’s welcomed into her home.
The Unholy Trinity
- Genre: Western
- Run time: 1h 33m
- Director: Richard Gray
- Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly
Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard) travels to Trinity, Montana after his father is executed and winds up caught between the town’s sheriff (Pierce Brosnan) and a charismatic outlaw (Samuel L. Jackson) looking for the gold he helped Henry’s dad steal. Henry will have to decide which side he’s on through a series of shootouts that threaten to tear Trinity apart.
New to rent
Afterburn
- Genre: Post-apocalyptic action
- Run time: 1h 46m
- Director: J. J. Perry
- Cast: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju
Earth has descended into chaos after a massive solar flare wiped out technology across the planet. The self-appointed King of England (Samuel L. Jackson) enlists the help of Jake (Dave Bautista) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he attempts to reestablish order. But recovering the Mona Lisa in France proves to be a very dangerous task.
Bone Lake
- Genre: Erotic thriller
- Run time: 1h 34m
- Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
- Cast: Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita
Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan wanted to be sure no one took Bone Lake seriously. The campy, gory film follows a couple whose romantic weekend is crashed by another duo who put their relationship to the test by encouraging infidelity. But the stakes aren’t just erotic – the mysterious interlopers are also serial killers.
Chain Reactions
- Genre: Documentary
- Run time: 1h 42m
- Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Actors, writers, and directors including Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, and Takashi Miike discuss the impact that Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre had on them personally and on the genre at large. The film explores what draws audiences to horror and what makes the classic so disturbing and hard to replicate.
Dead of Winter
- Genre: Action thriller
- Run time: 1h 38m
- Director: Brian Kirk
- Cast: Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca
Barb (Oscar-winner Emma Thompson) is in Minnesota to fulfill her husband’s last wish by scattering his ashes at the lake where they had their first date. But when she stops for directions during a snowstorm, she sees a young woman being held hostage in a remote cabin. Barb tries to rescue her without getting killed herself.
Good Boy
- Genre: Supernatural horror
- Run time: 1h 13m
- Director: Ben Leonberg
- Cast: Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, Larry Fessenden
Viewers fear for the safety of dogs in movies so much that there’s an entire website devoted to checking if the pup makes it to the end. Ben Leonberg takes that dread to another level with a horror story told from the perspective of a pup who senses a presence haunting the home where he’s moved with his chronically ill owner.
The Long Walk
- Genre: Dystopian thriller
- Run time: 1h 48m
- Director: Francis Lawrence
- Cast: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing
Francis Lawrence’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel The Long Walk is set in a bleak version of the United States in which teenage boys hoping for a better life enlist in an annual competition where they must walk nonstop for days. Those who fall behind are shot, but the last one standing has their wish granted.
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