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The Horror Film Weapons, the newest terror flick from Barbarian creator Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as moviegoers flocked to theaters to experience the scares and humor in this unsettling and shockingly comedic tale of a community looking for answers after 17 children vanish. Streaming for the first time the film on HBO Max. Thriller lovers can also catch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s campy thriller Bone Lake on VOD and Michelle Garza Cervera’s new version 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, debuts on the streaming giant. Or you can just relax at home and see the screen translation of the horror master's dark fiction The Long Walk on VOD.

Check out this guide of the highly anticipated latest additions on digital platforms, featuring the biggest, best, and most popular cinematic releases you can stream right now.

New on Netflix

Kathryn Bigelow's Latest

• Category: End-of-the-world suspense
• Duration: 112 minutes
• Director: A celebrated filmmaker
• Featuring: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is renowned for tense, political dramas like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she takes it further with global thermonuclear war in A House of Dynamite. Upon detection of an mysterious warhead is found en route to the American territory, all of the American military’s contingency plans are put to the test as they work to decipher how to respond.

Latest on AMC Plus

Descendent

• Genre: Sci-fi suspense
• Run time: Over an hour and a half
• Filmmaker: The director
• Featuring: Skilled performers

The protagonist Sean (a familiar face) is expecting his first child when he finds himself hospitalized, seemingly having fallen off the roof of the school where he is employed as a guard. But he firmly believes he was truly taken by extraterrestrials and becomes obsessed with defending his household from the alien forces.

Fresh on HBO Max

Zach Cregger's Film

• Type: Chilling whodunit
• Length: 2h 8m
• Helmed by: A horror specialist
• Cast: A star-studded lineup

The setting is ruptured by the puzzle of what happened to 17 children from the same third-grade class who awoke and ventured out and ran into the darkness. Barbarian director Zach Cregger follows the perspective of several individuals looking for clues in this deeply moving and profoundly unsettling cinematic work.

Key inquiries with an elaborate mystery are always whether that narrative momentum can be sustained, and if the experience is ultimately worthwhile. On the most elemental level, Weapons delivers impressively. Once its grand finale falls into place, it feels predictable yet exciting, excellently paced to refute potential criticisms of letdown. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are remaining uncertainties about why, precisely the narrative required a multi-perspective cast.

Latest Hulu Releases

The Thriller Remake

• Type: Horror thriller
• Filmmaker: A skilled filmmaker
• Starring: Notable performers

Subsequent to examining the terrors of expecting with her first film Huesera, Michelle Garza Cervera addresses the dread of securing a nanny with a new version of the original movie. 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

• Genre: Frontier story
• Duration: 93 minutes
• Director: Richard Gray
• Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly

The protagonist (a performer) heads to the setting after his dad is killed and becomes entangled with the peace officer (Pierce Brosnan) and a persuasive bandit (the renowned actor) searching for the fortune he assisted in stealing. He needs to pick where his loyalties lie through a series of shootouts that endanger the community's unity.

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Afterburn

• Genre: End-of-the-world thrills
• Run time: 106 minutes
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

Earth has descended into chaos after a massive solar flare destroyed electronics across the world. An autocratic leader (a renowned star) enlists the help of main character Jake (a familiar face) to collect valuable artifacts as he attempts to reestablish order. But recovering the Mona Lisa in the nation proves to be a very dangerous task.

The Erotic Thriller

• Genre: Steamy suspense
• Length: Over an hour and a half
• Filmmaker: The director
• Featuring: Skilled actors

Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan wanted to be sure no one took Bone Lake seriously. The campy, gory film follows a couple whose getaway is crashed by another duo who put their relationship to the test by suggesting betrayal. But the stakes aren’t just erotic – the puzzling visitors are also serial killers.

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