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The Horror Film Weapons, the latest terror flick from the hit film Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as cinema lovers rushed to see it to share the gasps and laughs in this unsettling and unexpectedly humorous tale of a community seeking explanations after a group of youngsters vanish. Streaming for the first time the feature on HBO Max. Genre enthusiasts can also watch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s over-the-top horror film Bone Lake on VOD and Michelle Garza Cervera’s new version of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu.

A House of Dynamite, an extremely tense nuclear thriller from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, arrives at Netflix. Viewers may relax at home and see the adaptation of Stephen King’s dark fiction The Long Walk on VOD.

Here's a rundown of the highly anticipated latest additions on digital platforms, highlighting the biggest, best, and most popular cinematic releases you can view from your living room.

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The Thriller A House of Dynamite

• Type: End-of-the-world suspense
• Duration: 1h 52m
• Filmmaker: Kathryn Bigelow
• Cast: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is renowned 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. When a single unidentified atomic weapon is found en route to the continental U.S., all of the nation's defense strategies are challenged as they attempt to determine how to react.

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Peter Cilella's Film

• Genre: Sci-fi suspense
• Run time: Over an hour and a half
• Director: The director
• Featuring: Skilled performers

The protagonist Sean (Ross Marquand) is expecting his first child when he finds himself hospitalized, seemingly having fallen off the school building's top where he is employed as a guard. But Sean is convinced he was in fact kidnapped by beings from space and grows fixated on defending his household from the otherworldly threats.

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Weapons

• Genre: Terrifying puzzle
• Run time: 128 minutes
• Helmed by: The director
• Featuring: A star-studded lineup

A small community is ruptured by the puzzle of the disappearance of seventeen youngsters from the same third-grade class who awoke and ventured out and ran into the darkness. Barbarian director Zach Cregger tracks the viewpoints of multiple people looking for clues in this powerfully affecting and profoundly unsettling movie.

Central doubts with a complex puzzle are always if the story's drive can be continued, and whether the journey is in the end valuable. Fundamentally, Weapons delivers impressively. When the conclusion arrives, it feels expected but innovative, excellently paced to refute potential criticisms of letdown. Once the frights fade, there are unresolved issues about the exact reasons the plot used a multiple-POV ensemble approach.

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Michelle Garza Cervera's Film

• Category: Chilling suspense
• Helmed by: A skilled filmmaker
• Cast: Notable performers

After delving into the fears of motherhood with her first film Huesera, the filmmaker explores the dread of securing a nanny with a reimagining of the original movie. The character Polly (the actress) is a affluent parent who hires a new nanny (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but finds out she is ignorant of who she’s welcomed into her home.

The Unholy Trinity

• Category: Western
• Duration: 1h 33m
• Filmmaker: Richard Gray
• Featuring: A star-powered cast

Henry Broadway (the actor) heads to Trinity, Montana after his parent is murdered and becomes entangled with the peace officer (the actor) and a charming criminal (a celebrated performer) searching for the fortune he was involved in taking. The protagonist must choose which side he’s on through a series of shootouts that threaten to tear Trinity apart.

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The Action Film Afterburn

• Category: Post-apocalyptic action
• Run time: 106 minutes
• Filmmaker: J. J. Perry
• Cast: Notable performers

Global society has collapsed after a huge solar event eradicated modern conveniences across the planet. A self-declared ruler (Samuel L. Jackson) enlists the help of Jake (Dave Bautista) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he seeks to restore civilization. But retrieving the famous painting in the European country proves to be a very dangerous task.

Bone Lake

• Type: Steamy suspense
• Duration: 1h 34m
• Helmed by: A creative filmmaker
• Featuring: A talented cast

Creator Mercedes Bryce Morgan aimed to ensure no one considered it a straight thriller. This over-the-top, bloody movie tracks a pair whose retreat is interrupted by two others who put their relationship to the test by suggesting betrayal. But the stakes aren’t just erotic – the enigmatic intruders are also homicidal maniacs.

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• Genre: Fact-based feature
• Duration: Over an hour and a half
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