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Weapons, the latest horror movie from the hit film Barbarian creator Zach Cregger, drew large audiences as cinema lovers filled cinemas to experience the scares and humor in this unsettling and shockingly comedic narrative of a town looking for answers after 17 children disappear. Now you can find the feature on the streaming platform. Genre enthusiasts can also watch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s absurd slasher flick Bone Lake on video on demand and Michelle Garza Cervera’s new version of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu.

A House of Dynamite, a nerve-wracking doomsday story from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, arrives at the platform. Or you can just relax at home and stream the adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian novel The Long Walk on digital platforms.

Check out this guide of the biggest new releases on streaming and VOD, featuring the top-rated and trending cinematic releases you can stream right now.

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The Thriller A House of Dynamite

• Genre: End-of-the-world suspense
• Duration: Nearly two hours
• Filmmaker: Kathryn Bigelow
• Featuring: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso

Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow is famous for tense, political dramas like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she elevates the tension with worldwide nuclear conflict in A House of Dynamite. After one unattributed nuclear missile is detected heading towards the continental U.S., all of the nation's defense strategies are challenged as they attempt to determine how to take action.

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Peter Cilella's Film

• Type: Science fiction thriller
• Duration: Over an hour and a half
• Director: Peter Cilella
• Featuring: An accomplished cast

The protagonist Sean (a familiar face) is preparing for parenthood when he regains consciousness in a medical facility, seemingly having fallen off the educational institution where he is employed as a guard. But the character insists he was in fact kidnapped by beings from space and develops a preoccupation with safeguarding his loved ones from the invaders.

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The Horror Mystery Weapons

• Genre: Horror mystery
• Run time: 2h 8m
• Helmed by: Zach Cregger
• Starring: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich

The town of Maybrook is divided by the enigma of what happened to a group of kids from the identical school grade who rose simultaneously in the dark and ran into the darkness. Barbarian creator follows the perspective of multiple people searching for answers in this emotionally rich and highly troubling film.

Central doubts with a detailed enigma are always how the plot's energy can be maintained, and whether the journey is in the end valuable. On the most elemental level, Weapons pays off big time. After the climax arrives, it feels expected but innovative, excellently paced to counter possible doubts of disappointment. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are remaining uncertainties about the specific purpose this story needed a multi-perspective cast.

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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

• Genre: Terrifying drama
• Filmmaker: Michelle Garza Cervera
• Cast: A talented cast

After delving into the terrors of expecting with her directorial debut Huesera, the director takes on the nightmare of finding reliable childcare with a new version of the original movie. 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.

Richard Gray's Film

• Genre: Cowboy drama
• Run time: Over an hour and a half
• Helmed by: Richard Gray
• Starring: A star-powered cast

The protagonist (the actor) heads to Trinity, Montana after his dad is killed and winds up caught between the local lawman (a familiar star) and a persuasive bandit (Samuel L. Jackson) seeking the gold he was involved in taking. The protagonist must choose which side he’s on through a string of confrontations that threaten to tear Trinity apart.

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J. J. Perry's Movie

• Category: Post-apocalyptic action
• Duration: 106 minutes
• Filmmaker: J. J. Perry
• Cast: A strong cast

The planet is in disarray after a huge solar event eradicated modern conveniences across the world. A self-declared ruler (Samuel L. Jackson) enlists the help of the protagonist Jake (the performer) 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 highly risky mission.

The Erotic Thriller

• Category: Steamy suspense
• Duration: 1h 34m
• Filmmaker: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
• Featuring: A talented cast

Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan wanted to be sure no one viewed the film as earnest. The campy, gory film follows a couple whose romantic weekend is crashed by another duo who challenge their bond by suggesting betrayal. But the stakes aren’t just erotic – the puzzling visitors are also murderers.

Alexandre O. Philippe's Film

• Genre: Non-fiction film
• Length: Over an hour and a half
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