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The Horror Film Weapons, the latest chilling film from Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, achieved massive commercial success as cinema lovers filled cinemas to share the gasps and laughs in this unsettling and unexpectedly humorous tale of a community looking for answers after 17 children vanish. Streaming for the first time the movie on the streaming platform. Genre enthusiasts can also view Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s absurd slasher flick Bone Lake on video on demand and Michelle Garza Cervera’s reimagining of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the platform.

A House of Dynamite, a highly suspenseful nuclear thriller from renowned director Kathryn Bigelow, arrives at the streaming giant. Alternatively, sit on your couch and watch the adaptation of Stephen King’s dark fiction The Long Walk on VOD.

Below is a summary of the highly anticipated fresh titles on streaming and VOD, highlighting the major and acclaimed recent films you can stream right now.

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A House of Dynamite

• Category: Apocalyptic thriller
• Run time: 1h 52m
• Director: The Oscar-winning director
• Starring: Notable actors

Renowned filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow is renowned for tense, political dramas like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she takes it further with worldwide nuclear conflict in A House of Dynamite. Upon detection of an unattributed nuclear missile is detected heading towards the United States mainland, all of the American military’s contingency plans are challenged as they work to decipher how to respond.

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Peter Cilella's Film

• Type: Sci-fi suspense
• Run time: Over an hour and a half
• Helmed by: The director
• Cast: Skilled performers

The protagonist Sean (a familiar face) is preparing for parenthood when he regains consciousness in a medical facility, ostensibly after an accident off the educational institution where he serves in a protective role. But Sean is convinced he was truly taken by extraterrestrials and becomes obsessed with safeguarding his loved ones from the otherworldly threats.

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The Horror Mystery Weapons

• Category: Chilling whodunit
• Duration: 128 minutes
• Helmed by: The director
• Featuring: Notable actors

The setting is divided by the enigma of the disappearance of seventeen youngsters from the same third-grade class who awoke and ventured out and ran into the darkness. The prior film Barbarian creator examines the stories of various characters searching for answers in this emotionally rich and highly troubling cinematic work.

Central doubts with an elaborate mystery are always whether that narrative momentum can be continued, and if the experience is in the end valuable. At its core, Weapons delivers impressively. Once its grand finale unfolds, 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 the exact reasons the narrative used a multi-perspective cast.

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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

• Genre: Horror thriller
• Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
• Featuring: Notable performers

Subsequent to examining the fears of motherhood with her initial feature Huesera, the filmmaker addresses the nightmare of finding reliable childcare with a remake of the classic suspense film. Main protagonist Polly (Maika Monroe) is a well-off mother who employs a caregiver (an acclaimed actor), but realizes she doesn’t know who she’s invited in.

The Unholy Trinity

• Type: Frontier story
• Run time: 93 minutes
• Helmed by: Richard Gray
• Featuring: Notable actors

Main character Henry (Brandon Lessard) journeys to a small town after his father is executed and winds up caught between the local lawman (a familiar star) and a persuasive bandit (the renowned actor) seeking the treasure he helped Henry’s dad steal. Henry will have to decide his alignment through a series of shootouts that threaten to tear Trinity apart.

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Afterburn

• Genre: Dystopian adventure
• Duration: Nearly two hours
• Helmed by: An action specialist
• Starring: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

The planet is in disarray after a huge solar event wiped out technology across the globe. An autocratic leader (Samuel L. Jackson) hires the protagonist Jake (a familiar face) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he attempts to reestablish order. But retrieving the famous painting in France proves to be a very dangerous task.

Mercedes Bryce Morgan's Film

• Type: Provocative drama
• Length: 94 minutes
• Helmed by: The director
• Featuring: A talented cast

Creator Mercedes Bryce Morgan wanted to be sure no one considered it a straight thriller. The campy, gory film tracks a pair whose getaway is interrupted by two others who challenge their bond by suggesting betrayal. But the dangers are not only sensual – the enigmatic intruders are also homicidal maniacs.

The Documentary

• Genre: Non-fiction film
• Duration: 102 minutes
• Filmmaker: {Alexandre O. Philippe|