Spooky season has begun, which means plenty of horror movies to stream this weekend. Danny and Michael Philippou are building their own horror universe, following their record-breaking 2023 debut Talk to Me with Bring Her Back. Meanwhile, V/H/S/Halloween, the latest installment of the long-running V/H/S anthology series, can be found on Shudder, while the supermoon brings Werewolves rampaging onto Hulu.
Viewers looking for some laughs can find The Naked Gun on Paramount Plus. Liam Neeson proves a worthy successor to Leslie Nielsen in a revival of the spoof series, where he has to stop a group of evil billionaires from triggering the apocalypse. Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage also shows just how funny he can be in the title role of The Toxic Avenger, which is available to rent for the first time.
Here’s a rundown of the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, including the biggest, best, and most popular new movies you can watch at home right now.
New on AppleTV+
The Lost Bus
- Genre: Survival drama
- Run time: 2h 10m
- Director: Paul Greengrass
- Cast: Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera, Yul Vazquez
Paul Greengrass (the Jason Bourne franchise, United 93) directed and co-wrote this tense film based on the true story of a bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) trying to get a group of kids and their teacher (America Ferrera) to safety during the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history.
New on HBO Max
Bring Her Back
- Genre: Horror
- Run time: 1h 44m
- Director: Danny and Michael Philippou
- Cast: Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips
Danny and Michael Philippou follow up their smash hit Talk to Me with another A24 horror film. A pair of step-siblings in foster care become the subjects of an occult ritual meant to resurrect their foster mom’s dead daughter. Family drama morphs into very dark, gory action in the new tale of demonic possession, with plenty of connections to the Philippous’ previous work.
New on Hulu
Werewolves
- Genre: Action horror
- Run time: 1h 34m
- Director: Steven C. Miller
- Cast: Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera
One year ago, every human exposed to the light of a supermoon turned into a werewolf. Nearly a billion people died as the monsters went on a killing spree. With the celestial event returning, scientists and the military look for a cure as everyone else tries to stay safe by hiding from the rampaging creatures.
New on Paramount Plus
Fight or Flight
- Genre: Action comedy
- Run time: 1h 42m
- Director: James Madigan
- Cast: Josh Hartnett, Katee Sackhoff, Charithra Chandran
Basically Bullet Train but in the air, Fight or Flight casts Black Hawk Down and Penny Dreadful star Josh Hartnett as a disgraced Secret Service agent given the chance to clear his name by catching an elusive hacker known as the Ghost, who’s boarded a flight from Bangkok to San Francisco. Unfortunately, the plane is packed with assassins looking to kill the Ghost and anyone who gets in their way.
The Naked Gun
- Genre: Action comedy
- Run time: 1h 25m
- Director: Akiva Schaffer
- Cast: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser
Liam Neeson revives the Leslie Nielsen spoof series as Frank Drebin Jr. of the LAPD Police Squad must unravel the dastardly plot of tech mogul Richard Cane (Danny Huston) and a group of other evil billionaires. The film is jam-packed with rapid-fire jokes poking fun at everything from Mission Impossible to Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.
New on Peacock
Honey Don’t
- Genre: Neo-noir
- Run time: 1h 29
- Director: Ethan Coen
- Cast: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke follow up their 2024 crime comedy Drive-Away Dolls with a queer neo-noir starring Margaret Qualley (The Substance) as hard-drinking private investigator Honey O’Donahue. When a prospective client is killed in a car accident, Honey’s search for answers puts her into conflict with a charismatic reverend (Chris Evans) using his church as a front for criminal activity.
New on Prime Video
Play Dirty
- Genre: Action thriller
- Run time: 2h 5m
- Director: Shane Black
- Cast: Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar
Mark Wahlberg plays Parker, the expert thief from Richard Stark’s book series, in a new caper where he assembles a crew to take on the New York mob and an entire country in order to steal a recovered sunken treasure worth $1 billion. The ambitious scheme involves plenty of shooting and double crosses.
New on Shudder
V/H/S/Halloween
- Genre: Horror anthology
- Run time: 1h 55m
- Directors: Bryan M. Ferguson, Casper Kelly, Micheline Pitt-Norman
- Cast: David Haydn, Samantha Cochran, Noah Diamond
The eighth installment of the found footage anthology horror franchise weaves together five Halloween-themed shorts. The horrors include a malevolent spirit that kidnaps kids on Halloween, the disastrous consequences of taking more than one treat from a bowl of candy, and monsters coming to life at a family’s haunt.
New to rent
Caught Stealing
- Genre: Crime thriller
- Run time: 1h 47m
- Director: Darren Aronofsky
- Cast: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz
Hank (Austin Butler), an alcoholic former baseball player living in New York, agrees to cat sit for his neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) only to find out Russ is a drug dealer stashing $4 million that belongs to the Jewish and Russian mafia. In over his head, Hank has to try to stay alive as the conflict over the cash gets bloody.
Primitive War
- Genre: Science fiction
- Run time: 2h 15m
- Director: Luke Sparke
- Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler
An elite recon unit sent into the jungles of Vietnam in 1968 to find out what happened to a Green Beret platoon discovers a valley populated by dinosaurs. To survive the mission, they’ll have to contend with prehistoric predators and Soviet forces conducting secret experiments in the area.
Rabbit Trap
- Genre: Psychological horror
- Run time: 1h 37m
- Director: Bryn Chainey
- Cast: Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot
Musicians Daphne (Rosy McEwan) and Darcy (Dev Patel) move to the Welsh countryside to look for inspiration for their new record, but their ambient sound samples pick up ancient, otherworldly noises. Their music attracts the attention of a mysterious child (Jade Croot), who may be connected to local fairy stories.
Scurry
- Genre: Apocalyptic horror
- Run time: 1h 40m
- Director: Luke Sparke
- Cast: Jamie Costa, Emalia
The one-shot film follows two survivors of an attack on their city who find themselves wounded and stuck in an underground tunnel. As their hopes of rescue collapse along with the passageways they’re navigating, they also have to flee from a swarm of giant, hungry mutated creatures.
Shell
- Genre: Horror comedy
- Run time: 1h 40
- Director: Max Minghella
- Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, Arian Moayed
The Handmaid’s Tale star Elizabeth Moss plays fading TV star Samantha Lake, who sees a chance to revitalize her career through a treatment from wellness mogul Zoe Shannon (Kate Hudson). But as other patients start going missing and her procedure has disturbing side effects, Samantha fears her own life is in danger unless she can figure out Zoe’s secrets.
Tin Soldier
- Genre: Action thriller
- Run time: 1h 26m
- Director: Brad Furman
- Cast: Scott Eastwood, John Leguizamo, Nora Arnezeder
A former soldier (Scott Eastwood) looking for purpose joined a cult led by the Bokushi (Jamie Foxx) but then fled, leaving behind his wife. Years later, he’s given a chance to rescue her when he’s recruited by a government agent (Robert De Niro) hoping that some inside knowledge can help take the dangerous organization down.
Toxic Avenger
- Genre: Superhero comedy
- Run time: 1h 43m
- Director: Macon Blair
- Cast: Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige
Macon Blair’s remake of the 1984 Troma film took almost two years to get a wider release after its 2023 Fantastic Fest premiere. It was worth the wait to see Peter Dinklage’s mutated heroic janitor battle a corrupt pharmaceutical exec (Kevin Bacon) with plenty of humor and over-the-top deaths.
