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Weapons, the latest horror movie from Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as cinema lovers filled cinemas to enjoy the frights and comedy in this unsettling and unexpectedly humorous tale of residents looking for answers after a group of youngsters go missing. Currently available the movie on HBO Max. Horror fans can also catch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s absurd slasher flick 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 apocalyptic drama from renowned director Kathryn Bigelow, explodes onto the platform. Or you can just relax at home and see the adaptation of the horror master'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 major and acclaimed recent films you can stream right now.

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Kathryn Bigelow's Latest

• Category: Apocalyptic thriller
• Length: 112 minutes
• Filmmaker: The Oscar-winning director
• Featuring: A talented ensemble

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is known for gripping, issue-driven stories like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she elevates the tension with international atomic disaster in A House of Dynamite. Upon detection of an unidentified atomic weapon is found en route to the continental U.S., all of the American military’s contingency plans are activated as they attempt to determine how to take action.

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Descendent

• Genre: Sci-fi suspense
• Length: 92 minutes
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: An accomplished cast

Sean (the actor) is preparing for parenthood when he finds himself hospitalized, apparently after a fall 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 otherworldly threats.

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The Horror Mystery Weapons

• Category: Horror mystery
• Duration: Over two hours
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: Notable actors

The setting is divided by the enigma of the fate of 17 children from the equivalent educational level who awoke and ventured out and ran into the darkness. The prior film Barbarian director Zach Cregger follows the perspective of multiple people seeking the truth in this emotionally rich and profoundly unsettling film.

Key inquiries with a detailed enigma are always if the story's drive can be continued, and how the path is in the end valuable. Fundamentally, Weapons delivers impressively. After the climax falls into place, it feels expected but innovative, excellently paced to challenge potential criticisms of letdown. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are remaining uncertainties about why, precisely this story required a multiple-POV ensemble approach.

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The Thriller Remake

• Genre: Horror thriller
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: Notable performers

After delving into the terrors of expecting with her directorial debut Huesera, the filmmaker explores the nightmare of finding reliable childcare with a remake of the classic suspense film. Polly (a familiar face) is a well-off mother who hires a new nanny (an acclaimed actor), but finds out she is ignorant of who she’s allowed inside.

Richard Gray's Film

• Type: Cowboy drama
• Duration: 93 minutes
• Director: A seasoned creator
• Cast: A star-powered cast

The protagonist (a performer) journeys to a small town after his parent is murdered and winds up caught between the town’s sheriff (a familiar star) and a charismatic outlaw (Samuel L. Jackson) seeking the gold he was involved in taking. Henry will have to decide which side he’s on through a sequence of gunfights that threaten to tear Trinity apart.

Latest VOD Releases

Afterburn

• Type: Post-apocalyptic action
• Length: 1h 46m
• Helmed by: An action specialist
• Starring: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

Global society has collapsed after a huge solar event eradicated modern conveniences across the globe. A self-declared ruler (the actor) hires Jake (the performer) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he works to bring back structure. But retrieving the famous painting in the nation proves to be a extremely perilous endeavor.

Bone Lake

• Type: Provocative drama
• Length: Over an hour and a half
• Filmmaker: The director
• Cast: Skilled actors

Filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan sought to guarantee no one took Bone Lake seriously. This over-the-top, bloody movie tracks a pair whose getaway is invaded by additional characters who put their relationship to the test by encouraging infidelity. But the risks go beyond romance – the enigmatic intruders are also murderers.

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• Type: Documentary
• Run time: 1h 42m
• Filmmaker: {Alexandre O. Philippe|