Finest Stephen King Film in Recent Memory and Everything Else Options Now Streaming This Weekend

Weapons, the newest chilling film from Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, drew large audiences as moviegoers flocked to theaters to share the gasps and laughs in this disturbing and unexpectedly humorous narrative of residents searching for the truth after seventeen kids go missing. Streaming for the first time the movie on HBO Max. Horror fans can also view Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s over-the-top horror film Bone Lake on digital rental and Michelle Garza Cervera’s reimagining of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the streaming service.

A House of Dynamite, a highly suspenseful apocalyptic drama from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, arrives at Netflix. Alternatively, stay in and watch the screen translation of the author's dark fiction The Long Walk on VOD.

Below is a summary of the biggest latest additions on streaming and VOD, featuring the major and acclaimed new movies you can view from your living room.

Fresh Titles on Netflix

The Thriller A House of Dynamite

• Genre: Apocalyptic thriller
• Duration: Nearly two hours
• Helmed by: Kathryn Bigelow
• Featuring: Notable actors

Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow is famous for high-stakes narratives like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she elevates the tension with international atomic disaster in A House of Dynamite. Upon detection of an mysterious warhead is spotted approaching the United States mainland, all of the U.S. armed forces' emergency protocols are put to the test as they attempt to determine how to react.

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The Sci-Fi Thriller Descendent

• Type: Sci-fi suspense
• Run time: 92 minutes
• Filmmaker: The director
• Featuring: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger

The protagonist Sean (a familiar face) is preparing for parenthood when he finds himself hospitalized, ostensibly after an accident off the educational institution where he works as a security guard. But he firmly believes he was in fact kidnapped by beings from space and develops a preoccupation with defending his household from the otherworldly threats.

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Weapons

• Category: Chilling whodunit
• Duration: 128 minutes
• Director: A horror specialist
• Starring: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich

A small community is ruptured by the enigma of what happened to 17 children from the identical school grade who rose simultaneously in the dark and vanished without a trace. Barbarian creator follows the perspective of multiple people searching for answers in this deeply moving and profoundly unsettling movie.

Key inquiries with an elaborate mystery are always how the plot's energy can be continued, and if the experience is ultimately worthwhile. On the most elemental level, Weapons pays off big time. When the conclusion arrives, it feels expected but innovative, excellently paced to challenge potential criticisms of “That’s it?”. However, after the scare factor, there are remaining uncertainties about the specific purpose the narrative needed a various viewpoints.

Fresh Titles on Hulu

The Thriller Remake

• Type: Horror thriller
• Helmed by: A skilled filmmaker
• Cast: A talented cast

After delving into the horror of pregnancy with her first film Huesera, the filmmaker addresses the nightmare of finding reliable childcare with a reimagining of Curtis Hanson’s 1992 thriller. Polly (a familiar face) is a affluent parent who brings in a babysitter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but discovers she is unaware who she’s invited in.

The Western Drama

• Genre: Western
• Length: 93 minutes
• Helmed by: A seasoned creator
• Featuring: Notable actors

Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard) heads to the setting after his dad is killed and becomes entangled with the local lawman (Pierce Brosnan) and a charismatic outlaw (Samuel L. Jackson) searching for the treasure he helped Henry’s dad steal. He needs to pick where his loyalties lie through a series of shootouts that risk destroying the town.

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Afterburn

• Genre: Post-apocalyptic action
• Run time: Nearly two hours
• Director: The director
• Starring: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

Earth has descended into chaos after a huge solar event wiped out technology across the globe. An autocratic leader (the actor) recruits Jake (Dave Bautista) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he works to bring back structure. But recovering the Mona Lisa in the European country proves to be a very dangerous task.

Bone Lake

• Category: Steamy suspense
• Duration: 1h 34m
• Helmed by: The director
• Cast: A talented cast

Filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan sought to guarantee no one took Bone Lake seriously. The exaggerated, violent feature centers on two people whose romantic weekend is interrupted by two others who put their relationship to the test by promoting cheating. But the risks go beyond romance – the mysterious interlopers are also murderers.

The Documentary

• Genre: Documentary
• Run time: 1h 42m
• Filmmaker: {Alexandre O. Philippe|