The Best Stephen King Adaptation in Years and All the Other Releases At Last Streaming Starting Now

Weapons, the newest terror flick from the hit film Barbarian creator Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as moviegoers flocked to theaters to share the gasps and laughs in this eerie and surprisingly funny tale of a town searching for the truth after a group of youngsters vanish. Currently available the film on HBO Max. Horror fans can also catch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s campy thriller Bone Lake on video on demand and Michelle Garza Cervera’s new version of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the platform.

A House of Dynamite, a highly suspenseful apocalyptic drama from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, debuts on the platform. Alternatively, sit on your couch and stream the screen translation of Stephen King’s dystopian novel The Long Walk on video on demand.

Here's a rundown of the highly anticipated new releases on digital platforms, including the biggest, best, and most popular recent films you can stream right now.

New on Netflix

The Thriller A House of Dynamite

  • Type: Apocalyptic thriller
  • Length: 112 minutes
  • Helmed by: 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 takes it further with worldwide nuclear conflict in A House of Dynamite. Upon detection of an mysterious warhead is detected heading towards the continental U.S., all of the U.S. armed forces' emergency protocols are activated as they try to figure out how to take action.

New on AMC Plus

The Sci-Fi Thriller Descendent

  • Category: Sci-fi suspense
  • Length: 1h 32m
  • Helmed by: The director
  • Featuring: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger

The protagonist Sean (a familiar face) is preparing for parenthood when he wakes up in the hospital, seemingly having fallen off the school building's top where he is employed as a guard. But he firmly believes he was actually abducted by aliens and develops a preoccupation with safeguarding his loved ones from the alien forces.

Fresh on HBO Max

The Horror Mystery Weapons

  • Type: Chilling whodunit
  • Run time: 2h 8m
  • Helmed by: A horror specialist
  • Starring: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich

The town of Maybrook is ruptured by the enigma of the disappearance of 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 various characters searching for answers in this powerfully affecting and profoundly unsettling film.

Central doubts with a complex puzzle are always if the story's drive can be maintained, and whether the journey is finally rewarding. At its core, Weapons delivers impressively. When the conclusion arrives, it feels predictable yet exciting, excellently paced to counter possible doubts of letdown. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are unresolved issues about why, precisely the narrative needed a various viewpoints.

New on Hulu

Michelle Garza Cervera's Film

  • Genre: Chilling suspense
  • Helmed by: A skilled filmmaker
  • Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Maika Monroe, RaĂşl Castillo

After delving into the terrors of expecting with her directorial debut Huesera, the director explores the anxiety of hiring help with a remake of the original movie. The character Polly (Maika Monroe) is a wealthy suburban mom who brings in a babysitter (an acclaimed actor), but finds out she is ignorant of who she’s invited in.

The Western Drama

  • Category: Cowboy drama
  • Duration: 93 minutes
  • Director: A seasoned creator
  • Cast: Notable actors

Henry Broadway (the actor) heads to Trinity, Montana after his parent is murdered and finds himself torn between the local lawman (the actor) and a charming criminal (a celebrated performer) searching for the gold he was involved in taking. He needs to pick where his loyalties lie through a sequence of gunfights that threaten to tear Trinity apart.

Fresh Digital Rentals

The Action Film Afterburn

  • Type: Dystopian adventure
  • Duration: 106 minutes
  • Helmed by: An action specialist
  • Cast: A strong cast

Global society has collapsed after a enormous electromagnetic burst wiped out technology across the globe. A self-declared ruler (Samuel L. Jackson) hires Jake (a familiar face) to retrieve important items as he attempts to reestablish order. But securing the artwork in France proves to be a highly risky mission.

Bone Lake

  • Type: Erotic thriller
  • Run time: Over an hour and a half
  • Helmed by: The director
  • Cast: Skilled actors

Creator Mercedes Bryce Morgan aimed to ensure no one viewed the film as earnest. This over-the-top, bloody movie tracks a pair whose romantic weekend is interrupted by two others who challenge their bond by encouraging infidelity. But the risks go beyond romance – the enigmatic intruders are also homicidal maniacs.

The Documentary

  • Type: Fact-based feature
  • Length: 1h 42m
  • Helmed by: {Alexandre O. Philippe|
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