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The Horror Film Weapons, the most recent horror movie from Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as fans rushed to see it to experience the scares and humor in this unsettling and surprisingly funny tale of a town looking for answers after a group of youngsters disappear. Now you can find the movie on the service. Genre enthusiasts can also catch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s campy thriller Bone Lake on digital rental and Michelle Garza Cervera’s reimagining of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the platform.

A House of Dynamite, an extremely tense nuclear thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, debuts on Netflix. Alternatively, relax at home and stream the screen translation of the horror master's futuristic story The Long Walk on VOD.

Check out this guide of the biggest fresh titles on digital platforms, highlighting the biggest, best, and most popular cinematic releases you can watch at home.

Fresh Titles on Netflix

Kathryn Bigelow's Latest

• Type: Apocalyptic thriller
• Duration: Nearly two hours
• Helmed by: The Oscar-winning director
• Featuring: A talented ensemble

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is renowned for gripping, issue-driven stories like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she takes it further with global thermonuclear war in A House of Dynamite. When a single unidentified atomic weapon is found en route to the United States mainland, all of the U.S. armed forces' emergency protocols are activated as they work to decipher how to take action.

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Descendent

• Type: Science fiction thriller
• Run time: 92 minutes
• Filmmaker: The director
• Cast: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger

The protagonist Sean (a familiar face) is anticipating the birth of his baby when he wakes up in the hospital, ostensibly after an accident off the roof of the school where he serves in a protective role. But the character insists he was in fact kidnapped by beings from space and grows fixated on defending his household from the invaders.

Latest HBO Max Titles

Weapons

• Type: Terrifying puzzle
• Duration: Over two hours
• Director: Zach Cregger
• Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich

The setting is divided by the enigma of the fate of a group of kids from the same third-grade class who all got up during the night and vanished without a trace. Barbarian creator tracks the viewpoints of multiple people searching for answers in this emotionally rich and deeply disturbing cinematic work.

Central doubts with an elaborate mystery are always whether that narrative momentum can be maintained, and how the path is in the end valuable. On the most elemental level, Weapons pays off big time. When the conclusion falls into place, it feels predictable yet exciting, excellently paced to counter possible doubts of “That’s it?”. However, after the scare factor, there are some lingering questions about why, precisely the narrative needed a various viewpoints.

Fresh Titles on Hulu

Michelle Garza Cervera's Film

• Category: Terrifying drama
• Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
• Cast: Notable performers

Following her exploration of the fears of motherhood with her directorial debut Huesera, the filmmaker takes on the anxiety of hiring help with a reimagining of the classic suspense film. The character Polly (a familiar face) is a wealthy suburban mom who brings in a babysitter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but finds out she is ignorant of who she’s invited in.

Richard Gray's Film

• Genre: Cowboy drama
• Run time: 1h 33m
• Filmmaker: A seasoned creator
• Featuring: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly

The protagonist (a performer) travels to the setting after his dad is killed and finds himself torn between the town’s sheriff (Pierce Brosnan) and a charming criminal (Samuel L. Jackson) searching 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.

Latest VOD Releases

The Action Film Afterburn

• Type: Dystopian adventure
• Duration: 106 minutes
• Director: An action specialist
• Starring: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

The planet is in disarray after a massive solar flare wiped out technology across the world. A self-declared ruler (the actor) recruits Jake (Dave Bautista) to retrieve important items as he works to bring back structure. But recovering the Mona Lisa in the European country proves to be a extremely perilous endeavor.

Bone Lake

• Genre: Provocative drama
• Duration: 1h 34m
• Filmmaker: A creative filmmaker
• Featuring: A talented cast

Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan aimed to ensure no one took Bone Lake seriously. The campy, gory film follows a couple whose getaway is invaded by additional characters who strain their connection by promoting cheating. But the dangers are not only sensual – the mysterious interlopers are also murderers.

Alexandre O. Philippe's Film

• Type: Documentary
• Run time: 102 minutes
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