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Weapons, the latest chilling film from the hit film Barbarian creator Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as moviegoers filled cinemas to experience the scares and humor in this disturbing and shockingly comedic story of a community seeking explanations after 17 children disappear. Now you can find the feature on the service. Genre enthusiasts can also catch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s campy thriller Bone Lake on video on demand and Michelle Garza Cervera’s reimagining of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the streaming service.

A House of Dynamite, an extremely tense apocalyptic drama from renowned director Kathryn Bigelow, debuts on Netflix. Alternatively, stay in and watch the screen translation of the horror master's dystopian novel The Long Walk on video on demand.

Check out this guide of the most notable fresh titles on streaming and VOD, highlighting the top-rated and trending new movies you can watch at home.

Fresh Titles on Netflix

The Thriller A House of Dynamite

• Type: Doomsday drama
• Duration: 112 minutes
• Director: A celebrated filmmaker
• Starring: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is renowned 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. After one unidentified atomic weapon is detected heading towards the continental U.S., all of the nation's defense strategies are put to the test as they work to decipher how to take action.

New on AMC Plus

Peter Cilella's Film

• Genre: Sci-fi suspense
• Duration: 92 minutes
• Director: Peter Cilella
• Cast: Skilled performers

The protagonist Sean (a familiar face) is preparing for parenthood when he finds himself hospitalized, apparently after a fall off the school building's top 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

The Horror Mystery Weapons

• Type: Chilling whodunit
• Duration: Over two hours
• Helmed by: Zach Cregger
• Starring: Notable actors

A small community is torn apart by the puzzle of the disappearance of 17 children from the same third-grade class who rose simultaneously in the dark and disappeared into the night. Barbarian creator tracks the viewpoints of several individuals searching for answers in this powerfully affecting and highly troubling movie.

Key inquiries with a detailed enigma are always how the plot's energy can be continued, and whether the journey is in the end valuable. On the most elemental level, Weapons succeeds greatly. Once its grand finale falls into place, it feels predictable yet exciting, ideally structured to counter potential criticisms of “That’s it?”. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are remaining uncertainties about the specific purpose the plot required a multi-perspective cast.

Latest Hulu Releases

The Thriller Remake

• Genre: Terrifying drama
• Helmed by: A skilled filmmaker
• Featuring: Notable performers

After delving into the fears of motherhood with her initial feature Huesera, the filmmaker explores the dread of securing a nanny with a new version of the classic suspense film. Main protagonist Polly (a familiar face) is a affluent parent who employs a caregiver (the performer), but realizes she doesn’t know who she’s allowed inside.

The Unholy Trinity

• Category: Cowboy drama
• Run time: 1h 33m
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly

Henry Broadway (a performer) travels to Trinity, Montana after his dad is killed and becomes entangled with the local lawman (Pierce Brosnan) and a charming criminal (a celebrated performer) seeking the gold he was involved in taking. The protagonist must choose his alignment through a string of confrontations that threaten to tear Trinity apart.

New to rent

Afterburn

• Category: Dystopian adventure
• Length: 1h 46m
• Filmmaker: An action specialist
• Cast: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

Global society has collapsed after a huge solar event destroyed electronics across the globe. An autocratic leader (the actor) 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 the nation proves to be a highly risky mission.

Bone Lake

• Genre: Steamy suspense
• Length: Over an hour and a half
• Filmmaker: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
• Starring: Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita

Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan aimed to ensure no one considered it a straight thriller. The exaggerated, violent feature follows a couple whose retreat is crashed by another duo who put their relationship to the test by suggesting betrayal. But the risks go beyond romance – the enigmatic intruders are also homicidal maniacs.

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• Type: Documentary
• Run time: 102 minutes
• Filmmaker: {Alexandre O. Philippe|