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Weapons, the most recent chilling film from Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, achieved massive commercial success as cinema lovers rushed to see it to experience the scares and humor in this unsettling and unexpectedly humorous narrative of a town seeking explanations after seventeen kids go missing. Currently available the movie on the streaming platform. Thriller lovers can also catch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s absurd slasher flick Bone Lake on video on demand and Michelle Garza Cervera’s remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu.

A House of Dynamite, a nerve-wracking doomsday story from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, debuts on the platform. Or you can just sit on your couch and stream the film version of Stephen King’s futuristic story The Long Walk on video on demand.

Check out this guide of the most notable latest additions on streaming and VOD, featuring the top-rated and trending recent films you can stream right now.

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Kathryn Bigelow's Latest

• Type: Doomsday drama
• Duration: 112 minutes
• Director: Kathryn Bigelow
• Starring: Notable actors

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is known 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. When a single mysterious warhead is found en route to the United States mainland, all of the nation's defense strategies are challenged as they attempt to determine how to react.

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Descendent

• Type: Futuristic drama
• Duration: 92 minutes
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger

The protagonist Sean (a familiar face) is preparing for parenthood when he regains consciousness in a medical facility, 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 develops a preoccupation with protecting his family from the otherworldly threats.

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Weapons

• Type: Chilling whodunit
• Length: 128 minutes
• Helmed by: A horror specialist
• Featuring: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich

A small community is divided by the enigma of the disappearance of 17 children from the equivalent educational level who all got up during the night and vanished without a trace. The prior film Barbarian director Zach Cregger follows the perspective of various characters looking for clues in this powerfully affecting and deeply disturbing cinematic work.

Key inquiries with an elaborate mystery are always if the story's drive can be sustained, and whether the journey is ultimately worthwhile. At its core, Weapons succeeds greatly. Once its grand finale falls into place, it feels expected but innovative, perfectly timed to refute any mutterings of “That’s it?”. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are remaining uncertainties about why, precisely the plot needed a multi-perspective cast.

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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

• Type: Terrifying drama
• Filmmaker: Michelle Garza Cervera
• Starring: A talented cast

Subsequent to examining the terrors of expecting with her initial feature Huesera, Michelle Garza Cervera takes on the nightmare of finding reliable childcare with a reimagining of the classic suspense film. The character Polly (the actress) is a affluent parent who brings in a babysitter (an acclaimed actor), but discovers she is unaware who she’s allowed inside.

Richard Gray's Film

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

Henry Broadway (a performer) journeys to Trinity, Montana after his father is executed and winds up caught between the town’s sheriff (a familiar star) and a persuasive bandit (the renowned actor) looking for the treasure he helped Henry’s dad steal. Henry will have to decide where his loyalties lie through a sequence of gunfights that endanger the community's unity.

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J. J. Perry's Movie

• Type: Dystopian adventure
• Duration: 1h 46m
• Director: An action specialist
• Featuring: A strong cast

Earth has descended into chaos after a huge solar event wiped out technology across the world. An autocratic leader (a renowned star) enlists the help of main character Jake (a familiar face) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he seeks to restore civilization. But securing the artwork in the European country proves to be a extremely perilous endeavor.

The Erotic Thriller

• Genre: Erotic thriller
• Length: Over an hour and a half
• Director: The director
• Cast: Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita

Filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan sought to guarantee no one considered it a straight thriller. The campy, gory film tracks a pair whose getaway is interrupted by two others who put their relationship to the test by encouraging infidelity. But the risks go beyond romance – the puzzling visitors are also serial killers.

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• Type: Fact-based feature
• Duration: Over an hour and a half
• Filmmaker: {Alexandre O. Philippe|