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Weapons, the newest horror movie from the hit film Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, achieved massive commercial success as moviegoers rushed to see it to enjoy the frights and comedy in this unsettling and shockingly comedic tale of residents looking for answers after a group of youngsters vanish. Streaming for the first time the movie on the streaming platform. Thriller lovers can also watch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s campy thriller Bone Lake on digital rental and Michelle Garza Cervera’s remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the platform.

A House of Dynamite, a nerve-wracking nuclear thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, debuts on the platform. Alternatively, stay in and see the adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian novel The Long Walk on digital platforms.

Here's a rundown of the highly anticipated new releases on online services, including the top-rated and trending new movies you can view from your living room.

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Kathryn Bigelow's Latest

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

Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow is renowned for tense, political dramas like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she raises those stakes with international atomic disaster in A House of Dynamite. After one mysterious warhead is detected heading towards the United States mainland, all of the U.S. armed forces' emergency protocols are activated as they try to figure out how to respond.

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Descendent

• Type: Sci-fi suspense
• Duration: 92 minutes
• Director: Peter Cilella
• Featuring: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger

Main character Sean (a familiar face) is preparing for parenthood when he wakes up in the hospital, ostensibly after an accident off the school building's top where he is employed as a guard. But Sean is convinced he was truly taken by extraterrestrials and becomes obsessed with safeguarding his loved ones from the invaders.

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Weapons

• Genre: Horror mystery
• Duration: 128 minutes
• Filmmaker: The director
• Featuring: A star-studded lineup

A small community is ruptured by the mystery of what happened to 17 children from the equivalent educational level who awoke and ventured out and vanished without a trace. The prior film Barbarian director Zach Cregger examines the stories of several individuals searching for answers in this deeply moving and profoundly unsettling movie.

Key inquiries with a detailed enigma are always how the plot's energy can be sustained, and how the path is in the end valuable. On the most elemental level, Weapons delivers impressively. When the conclusion falls into place, it feels both inevitable and delightfully fresh, ideally structured to counter any mutterings of disappointment. However, after the scare factor, there are remaining uncertainties about the specific purpose the plot needed a multi-perspective cast.

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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

• Genre: Horror thriller
• Director: A skilled filmmaker
• Cast: A talented cast

Subsequent to examining the horror of pregnancy with her first film Huesera, the filmmaker takes on the dread of securing a nanny with a new version of the classic suspense film. Main protagonist Polly (Maika Monroe) is a wealthy suburban mom who employs a caregiver (the performer), but finds out she is ignorant of who she’s welcomed into her home.

Richard Gray's Film

• Type: Western
• Duration: 93 minutes
• Filmmaker: Richard Gray
• Featuring: Notable actors

The protagonist (Brandon Lessard) travels to the setting after his dad is killed and finds himself torn between the town’s sheriff (a familiar star) and a charismatic outlaw (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 endanger the community's unity.

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Afterburn

• Genre: Post-apocalyptic action
• Run time: Nearly two hours
• Filmmaker: J. J. Perry
• Cast: Notable performers

Earth has descended into chaos after a massive solar flare wiped out technology across the planet. An autocratic leader (the actor) recruits Jake (the performer) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he seeks to restore civilization. But securing the artwork in France proves to be a very dangerous task.

Bone Lake

• Genre: Erotic thriller
• Duration: 1h 34m
• Helmed by: A creative filmmaker
• Starring: A talented cast

Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan aimed to ensure no one took Bone Lake seriously. The exaggerated, violent feature tracks a pair whose getaway is crashed by another duo who challenge their bond by suggesting betrayal. But the dangers are not only sensual – the puzzling visitors are also homicidal maniacs.

The Documentary

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