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The Horror Film Weapons, the most recent chilling film from Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as moviegoers flocked to theaters to share the gasps and laughs in this unsettling and unexpectedly humorous story of residents seeking explanations after 17 children disappear. Streaming for the first time the feature on HBO Max. Horror fans can also watch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s absurd slasher flick Bone Lake on video on demand and Michelle Garza Cervera’s remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the platform.

A House of Dynamite, an extremely tense apocalyptic drama from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, debuts on the platform. Alternatively, stay in and stream the adaptation of the author's dystopian novel The Long Walk on video on demand.

Below is a summary of the biggest new releases on digital platforms, highlighting the major and acclaimed recent films you can view from your living room.

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The Thriller A House of Dynamite

• Type: Apocalyptic thriller
• Length: Nearly two hours
• Filmmaker: The Oscar-winning director
• Cast: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso

Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow is known for tense, political dramas like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she elevates the tension with international atomic disaster in A House of Dynamite. After one unidentified atomic weapon is found en route to the United States mainland, all of the U.S. armed forces' emergency protocols are challenged as they try to figure out how to respond.

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Peter Cilella's Film

• Category: Futuristic drama
• Length: 1h 32m
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger

The protagonist Sean (Ross Marquand) is expecting his first child when he regains consciousness in a medical facility, seemingly having fallen off the school building's top where he serves in a protective role. But the character insists he was truly taken by extraterrestrials and grows fixated on safeguarding his loved ones from the invaders.

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Weapons

• Genre: Terrifying puzzle
• Run time: 2h 8m
• Filmmaker: The director
• Featuring: Notable actors

A small community is ruptured by the enigma of what happened to seventeen youngsters from the identical school grade 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 powerfully affecting and profoundly unsettling movie.

Key inquiries with an elaborate mystery are always how the plot's energy can be sustained, and whether the journey is in the end valuable. Fundamentally, Weapons succeeds greatly. Once its grand finale falls into place, it feels expected but innovative, excellently paced to counter any mutterings of disappointment. Once the frights fade, there are remaining uncertainties about why, precisely this story required a multiple-POV ensemble approach.

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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

• Type: Chilling suspense
• Director: A skilled filmmaker
• Starring: Notable performers

Following her exploration of the fears of motherhood with her directorial debut Huesera, the director takes on the anxiety of hiring help with a reimagining of the original movie. The character Polly (a familiar face) is a well-off mother who hires a new nanny (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but discovers she is unaware who she’s invited in.

The Unholy Trinity

• Category: Frontier story
• Run time: 93 minutes
• Director: A seasoned creator
• Featuring: Notable actors

The protagonist (a performer) heads to a small town after his dad is killed and finds himself torn between the town’s sheriff (a familiar star) and a persuasive bandit (Samuel L. Jackson) searching for the gold he helped Henry’s dad steal. Henry will have to decide which side he’s on through a sequence of gunfights that risk destroying the town.

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J. J. Perry's Movie

• Genre: End-of-the-world thrills
• Run time: 1h 46m
• Filmmaker: An action specialist
• Cast: Notable performers

Earth has descended into chaos after a enormous electromagnetic burst wiped out technology across the planet. The self-appointed King of England (Samuel L. Jackson) hires the protagonist Jake (the performer) to collect valuable artifacts as he works to bring back structure. But securing the artwork in France proves to be a highly risky mission.

The Erotic Thriller

• Category: Steamy suspense
• Duration: Over an hour and a half
• Director: A creative filmmaker
• Cast: Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita

Filmmaker Mercedes Bryce Morgan sought to guarantee no one considered it a straight thriller. The exaggerated, violent feature tracks a pair whose romantic weekend is crashed by another duo who challenge their bond by suggesting betrayal. But the stakes aren’t just erotic – the puzzling visitors are also serial killers.

The Documentary

• Genre: Fact-based feature
• Run time: 102 minutes
• Helmed by: {Alexandre O. Philippe|