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The Horror Film Weapons, the most recent horror movie from the hit film Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as moviegoers filled cinemas to share the gasps and laughs in this unsettling and shockingly comedic tale of residents seeking explanations after a group of youngsters go missing. Streaming for the first time the film on the service. Thriller lovers can also watch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s absurd slasher flick Bone Lake on VOD and Michelle Garza Cervera’s reimagining of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the streaming service.

A House of Dynamite, an extremely tense nuclear thriller from renowned director Kathryn Bigelow, debuts on the streaming giant. Alternatively, sit on your couch and see the screen translation of the horror master's dark fiction The Long Walk on video on demand.

Here's a rundown of the highly anticipated new releases on streaming and VOD, including the top-rated and trending cinematic releases you can watch at home.

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The Thriller A House of Dynamite

• Genre: Doomsday drama
• Length: 112 minutes
• Filmmaker: Kathryn Bigelow
• Starring: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is known for gripping, issue-driven stories 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 unidentified atomic weapon is detected heading towards the United States mainland, all of the American military’s contingency plans are activated as they attempt to determine how to respond.

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Peter Cilella's Film

• Genre: Futuristic drama
• Duration: Over an hour and a half
• Helmed by: A talented creator
• Starring: An accomplished cast

Sean (Ross Marquand) is preparing for parenthood when he wakes up in the hospital, seemingly having fallen off the roof of the school where he is employed as a guard. But the character insists he was actually abducted by aliens and develops a preoccupation with protecting his family from the otherworldly threats.

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The Horror Mystery Weapons

• Category: Terrifying puzzle
• Length: Over two hours
• Helmed by: The director
• Cast: A star-studded lineup

A small community is torn apart by the mystery of the fate of seventeen youngsters from the equivalent educational level who all got up during the night and vanished without a trace. The prior film Barbarian filmmaker follows the perspective of various characters seeking the truth in this emotionally rich and highly troubling film.

Central doubts with an elaborate mystery are always if the story's drive can be sustained, and if the experience is finally rewarding. Fundamentally, Weapons delivers impressively. When the conclusion unfolds, it feels both inevitable and delightfully fresh, excellently paced to refute possible doubts of letdown. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are some lingering questions about the exact reasons the narrative needed a multiple-POV ensemble approach.

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Michelle Garza Cervera's Film

• Category: Chilling suspense
• Director: A skilled filmmaker
• Featuring: Notable performers

Subsequent to examining the terrors of expecting with her first film Huesera, the director explores the nightmare of finding reliable childcare with a remake of the classic suspense film. The character Polly (the actress) is a well-off mother who employs a caregiver (the performer), but finds out she is ignorant of who she’s welcomed into her home.

The Unholy Trinity

• Category: Frontier story
• Duration: 1h 33m
• Filmmaker: A seasoned creator
• Starring: Notable actors

Main character Henry (Brandon Lessard) heads to Trinity, Montana after his dad is killed and winds up caught between the peace officer (a familiar star) and a charismatic outlaw (the renowned actor) looking for the treasure he was involved in taking. He needs to pick which side he’s on through a sequence of gunfights that risk destroying the town.

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Afterburn

• Type: End-of-the-world thrills
• Length: Nearly two hours
• Filmmaker: An action specialist
• Starring: A strong cast

The planet is in disarray after a massive solar flare wiped out technology across the planet. The self-appointed King of England (the actor) recruits main character Jake (the performer) to retrieve important items as he works to bring back structure. But recovering the Mona Lisa in France proves to be a very dangerous task.

The Erotic Thriller

• Type: Erotic thriller
• Duration: Over an hour and a half
• Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
• Cast: A talented cast

Filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan aimed to ensure no one viewed the film as earnest. The exaggerated, violent feature centers on two people whose romantic weekend is interrupted by two others who challenge their bond by encouraging infidelity. But the stakes aren’t just erotic – the puzzling visitors are also homicidal maniacs.

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• Category: Fact-based feature
• Run time: 1h 42m
• Filmmaker: {Alexandre O. Philippe|