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Zach Cregger's Latest, the latest terror flick from the hit film Barbarian filmmaker Zach Cregger, achieved massive commercial success as fans rushed to see it to share the gasps and laughs in this unsettling and shockingly comedic story of a town seeking explanations after seventeen kids vanish. Now you can find the film on HBO Max. Horror fans can also watch Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s campy thriller Bone Lake on video on demand and Michelle Garza Cervera’s reimagining of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the platform.

A House of Dynamite, a highly suspenseful apocalyptic drama from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, debuts on the platform. Or you can just stay in and see the film version of the author's dystopian novel The Long Walk on digital platforms.

Check out this guide of the biggest fresh titles on digital platforms, including the major and acclaimed new movies you can view from your living room.

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Kathryn Bigelow's Latest

• Category: End-of-the-world suspense
• Run time: 112 minutes
• Director: A celebrated filmmaker
• Featuring: Notable actors

Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow is famous for tense, political dramas like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and she elevates the tension with worldwide nuclear conflict in A House of Dynamite. When a single unidentified atomic weapon is spotted approaching the American territory, all of the U.S. armed forces' emergency protocols are put to the test as they work to decipher how to respond.

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Descendent

• Genre: Science fiction thriller
• Duration: 92 minutes
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: An accomplished cast

Main character Sean (the actor) is expecting his first child when he finds himself hospitalized, apparently after a fall off the roof of the school where he works as a security guard. But he firmly believes he was in fact kidnapped by beings from space and grows fixated on protecting his family from the invaders.

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Weapons

• Type: Terrifying puzzle
• Length: Over two hours
• Filmmaker: A horror specialist
• Starring: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich

A small community is ruptured by the enigma of what happened to 17 children from the equivalent educational level who rose simultaneously in the dark and vanished without a trace. The prior film Barbarian filmmaker tracks the viewpoints of several individuals searching for answers in this powerfully affecting and highly troubling film.

The questions with a complex puzzle are always how the plot's energy can be continued, and whether the journey is in the end valuable. Fundamentally, Weapons delivers impressively. After the climax falls into place, it feels predictable yet exciting, ideally structured to challenge any mutterings of “That’s it?”. However, after the scare factor, there are remaining uncertainties about the exact reasons the narrative needed a various viewpoints.

New on Hulu

The Thriller Remake

• Category: Horror thriller
• Helmed by: Michelle Garza Cervera
• Cast: A talented cast

Following her exploration of the horror of pregnancy with her first film Huesera, the filmmaker takes on the anxiety of hiring help with a reimagining of the classic suspense film. The character Polly (the actress) is a wealthy suburban mom who brings in a babysitter (an acclaimed actor), but realizes she doesn’t know who she’s welcomed into her home.

Richard Gray's Film

• Type: Frontier story
• Run time: 1h 33m
• Helmed by: A seasoned creator
• Cast: A star-powered cast

Main character Henry (Brandon Lessard) journeys to the setting after his father is executed and winds up caught between the local lawman (a familiar star) and a charming criminal (Samuel L. Jackson) searching for the treasure he was involved in taking. The protagonist must choose where his loyalties lie through a string of confrontations that endanger the community's unity.

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The Action Film Afterburn

• Genre: Post-apocalyptic action
• Length: 1h 46m
• Helmed by: J. J. Perry
• Starring: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

Global society has collapsed after a huge solar event eradicated modern conveniences across the planet. An autocratic leader (the actor) recruits Jake (a familiar face) to collect valuable artifacts as he seeks to restore civilization. But recovering the Mona Lisa in the European country proves to be a highly risky mission.

Bone Lake

• Category: Erotic thriller
• Run time: Over an hour and a half
• Helmed by: The director
• Starring: A talented cast

Director Mercedes Bryce Morgan wanted to be sure no one considered it a straight thriller. The campy, gory film tracks a pair whose getaway is interrupted by two others who strain their connection by suggesting betrayal. But the risks go beyond romance – the mysterious interlopers are also homicidal maniacs.

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• Genre: Non-fiction film
• Length: 102 minutes
• Helmed by: {Alexandre O. Philippe|