The Best Master of Horror Movie in Recent Memory and All the Other Options Now Available Online Over the Next Few Days

Weapons, the most recent horror movie from the hit film Barbarian creator Zach Cregger, achieved massive commercial success as moviegoers flocked to theaters to experience the scares and humor in this eerie and unexpectedly humorous narrative of a community seeking explanations after a group of youngsters go missing. Now you can find the feature on the streaming platform. Horror fans can also catch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s absurd slasher flick Bone Lake on VOD and Michelle Garza Cervera’s reimagining of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu.

A House of Dynamite, a highly suspenseful apocalyptic drama from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, arrives at the streaming giant. Alternatively, stay in and stream the adaptation of Stephen King’s dark fiction The Long Walk on VOD.

Below is a summary of the biggest fresh titles on streaming and VOD, including the biggest, best, and most popular recent films you can view from your living room.

Latest Netflix Releases

A House of Dynamite

• Genre: Doomsday drama
• Length: 1h 52m
• Director: Kathryn Bigelow
• Starring: A talented ensemble

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is known for tense, political dramas like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she elevates the tension with global thermonuclear war in A House of Dynamite. When a single mysterious warhead is found en route to the continental U.S., all of the U.S. armed forces' emergency protocols are activated as they attempt to determine how to respond.

Latest on AMC Plus

Descendent

• Genre: Science fiction thriller
• Run time: 92 minutes
• Filmmaker: Peter Cilella
• Featuring: An accomplished cast

Main character Sean (the actor) is anticipating the birth of his baby when he wakes up in the hospital, seemingly having fallen off the roof of the school where he serves in a protective role. But Sean is convinced he was truly taken by extraterrestrials and becomes obsessed with safeguarding his loved ones from the otherworldly threats.

New on HBO Max

Zach Cregger's Film

• Category: Chilling whodunit
• Length: 2h 8m
• Filmmaker: Zach Cregger
• Featuring: Notable actors

A small community is torn apart by the puzzle of the disappearance of 17 children from the identical school grade who rose simultaneously in the dark and ran into the darkness. Barbarian director Zach Cregger examines the stories of various characters searching for answers in this emotionally rich and highly troubling film.

The questions with an elaborate mystery are always whether that narrative momentum can be maintained, and if the experience is in the end valuable. Fundamentally, Weapons delivers impressively. Once its grand finale arrives, it feels both inevitable and delightfully fresh, perfectly timed to challenge possible doubts of disappointment. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are unresolved issues about why, precisely the narrative needed a multi-perspective cast.

New on Hulu

Michelle Garza Cervera's Film

• Type: Horror thriller
• Director: A skilled filmmaker
• Featuring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Maika Monroe, Raúl Castillo

Subsequent to examining the fears of motherhood with her initial feature Huesera, the director explores the dread of securing a nanny with a new version of the classic suspense film. The character Polly (Maika Monroe) is a well-off mother who brings in a babysitter (an acclaimed actor), but realizes she doesn’t know who she’s welcomed into her home.

The Western Drama

• Category: Western
• Length: 1h 33m
• Helmed by: A seasoned creator
• Cast: Notable actors

Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard) heads to a small town after his dad is killed and becomes entangled with the peace officer (a familiar star) and a persuasive bandit (the renowned actor) searching for the gold he was involved in taking. Henry will have to decide where his loyalties lie through a series of shootouts that endanger the community's unity.

New to rent

The Action Film Afterburn

• Category: End-of-the-world thrills
• Length: Nearly two hours
• Director: An action specialist
• Featuring: A strong cast

The planet is in disarray after a huge solar event eradicated modern conveniences across the planet. The self-appointed King of England (a renowned star) enlists the help of Jake (Dave Bautista) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he seeks to restore civilization. But recovering the Mona Lisa in France proves to be a extremely perilous endeavor.

Bone Lake

• Category: Erotic thriller
• Duration: 94 minutes
• Filmmaker: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
• Cast: Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita

Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan wanted to be sure no one took Bone Lake seriously. This over-the-top, bloody movie follows a couple whose getaway is interrupted by two others who put their relationship to the test by suggesting betrayal. But the dangers are not only sensual – the mysterious interlopers are also serial killers.

Alexandre O. Philippe's Film

• Type: Fact-based feature
• Run time: 102 minutes
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