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Zach Cregger's Latest, the latest chilling film from the hit film Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger, drew large audiences as fans filled cinemas to share the gasps and laughs in this disturbing and shockingly comedic story of residents seeking explanations after a group of youngsters vanish. Currently available the film on HBO Max. Horror fans can also watch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s campy thriller Bone Lake on digital rental and Michelle Garza Cervera’s new version of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu.

A House of Dynamite, a highly suspenseful apocalyptic drama from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, explodes onto Netflix. Or you can just stay in and stream the screen translation of the horror master's dark fiction The Long Walk on digital platforms.

Here's a rundown of the biggest latest additions on streaming and VOD, featuring the biggest, best, and most popular cinematic releases you can stream right now.

Fresh Titles on Netflix

The Thriller A House of Dynamite

• Category: End-of-the-world suspense
• Run time: 1h 52m
• Helmed by: A celebrated filmmaker
• Featuring: Notable actors

Renowned filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow is renowned for high-stakes narratives like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she raises those stakes with global thermonuclear war in A House of Dynamite. After one mysterious warhead is detected heading towards the American territory, all of the American military’s contingency plans are challenged as they try to figure out how to react.

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Peter Cilella's Film

• Genre: Futuristic drama
• Run time: 92 minutes
• Director: Peter Cilella
• Featuring: An accomplished cast

Main character Sean (the actor) is anticipating the birth of his baby when he regains consciousness in a medical facility, ostensibly after an accident off the roof of the school where he works as a security guard. But he firmly believes he was truly taken by extraterrestrials and grows fixated on defending his household from the alien forces.

Latest HBO Max Titles

The Horror Mystery Weapons

• Genre: Horror mystery
• Run time: Over two hours
• Helmed by: The director
• Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich

The town of Maybrook is torn apart by the mystery of the disappearance of 17 children from the equivalent educational level who awoke and ventured out and disappeared into the night. Barbarian filmmaker tracks the viewpoints of multiple people searching for answers in this powerfully affecting and deeply disturbing film.

The questions with an elaborate mystery are always whether that narrative momentum can be sustained, and how the path is in the end valuable. On the most elemental level, Weapons delivers impressively. When the conclusion unfolds, it feels predictable yet exciting, excellently paced to counter any mutterings of letdown. Yet as the horror-movie high, there are some lingering questions about the exact reasons this story required a multiple-POV ensemble approach.

Latest Hulu Releases

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

• Category: Chilling suspense
• Helmed by: Michelle Garza Cervera
• Starring: Notable performers

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 Curtis Hanson’s 1992 thriller. The character Polly (a familiar face) is a affluent parent who brings in a babysitter (the performer), but realizes she doesn’t know who she’s invited in.

The Western Drama

• Category: Western
• Length: 93 minutes
• Filmmaker: A seasoned creator
• Cast: Notable actors

The protagonist (the actor) heads to the setting after his father is executed and winds up caught between the local lawman (the actor) and a charismatic outlaw (the renowned actor) looking for the gold he assisted in stealing. The protagonist must choose which side he’s on through a sequence of gunfights that risk destroying the town.

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The Action Film Afterburn

• Category: Post-apocalyptic action
• Run time: Nearly two hours
• Director: An action specialist
• Featuring: Notable performers

The planet is in disarray after a massive solar flare destroyed electronics across the globe. A self-declared ruler (Samuel L. Jackson) recruits the protagonist Jake (the performer) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he attempts to reestablish order. But recovering the Mona Lisa in the European country proves to be a highly risky mission.

The Erotic Thriller

• Category: Steamy suspense
• Duration: 94 minutes
• Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan
• Starring: Skilled actors

Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan sought to guarantee no one considered it a straight thriller. This over-the-top, bloody movie follows a couple whose retreat is interrupted by two others who put their relationship to the test by promoting cheating. But the risks go beyond romance – the puzzling visitors are also serial killers.

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• Type: Non-fiction film
• Length: Over an hour and a half
• Filmmaker: {Alexandre O. Philippe|