It’s a very bloody weekend on streaming. Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple provides the perfect second entry in the planned post-apocalyptic trilogy as a twisted cult leader who believes he’s the son of Satan turns out to be far more dangerous than the infected. Watch Uma Thurman murder her former coworkers in The Whole Bloody Affair, Quentin Tarantino’s four-and-a-half-hour combined cut of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
For something much lighter, SpongeBob has a haunted pirate adventure in The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, which sails onto Paramount Plus. Keanu Reeves gets the chance to relax and smile as a guardian angel in Good Fortune, which descends onto Starz.
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 HBO Max
Dead of Winter
- Genre: Action thriller
- Run time: 1h 38m
- Director: Brian Kirk
- Cast: Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca
Barb (Oscar-winner Emma Thompson) is in Minnesota to fulfill her husband’s last wish by scattering his ashes at the lake where they had their first date. But when she stops for directions during a snowstorm, she sees a young woman being held hostage in a remote cabin. Barb tries to rescue her without getting killed herself.
New on Hulu
The Astronaut
- Genre: Science fiction horror
- Run time: 1h 31m
- Director: Jess Varley
- Cast: Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna
Astronaut Sam Walker (Kate Mara) wakes up back on Earth with no memory of what went wrong on her mission to the International Space Station. Stuck in quarantine while the Pentagon investigates, Sam starts experiencing strange bruising and hallucinations that make her wonder if she returned home alone.
New on Paramount Plus
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
- Genre: Adventure comedy
- Run time: 1h 36m
- Director: Derek Drymon
- Cast: Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass
Cursed to sail the Underworld until he can swap places with an innocent soul, the ghost pirate The Flying Dutchman (Mark Hamill) believes that SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) is the key to his salvation and encourages SpongeBob to train to become a swashbuckler by facing numerous dangers. SpongeBob’s friends will have to rescue him before it’s too late.
New on Starz
Good Fortune
- Genre: Supernatural comedy
- Run time: 1h 37m
- Director: Aziz Ansari
- Cast: Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves
Gabriel (Keanu Reeves), a minor guardian angel, tries to do more good by swapping the lives of the down-and-out Arj (Aziz Ansari) and rich tech mogul Jeff (Seth Rogen) to teach both men a lesson. But Arj isn’t in any hurry to get back to struggling to get by, and Gabriel’s experiment gets him fired from his divine job and turned into a human.
New to rent
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
- Genre: Post-apocalyptic horror
- Run time: 1h 49m
- Director: Nia DaCosta
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams
Spike (Alfie Williams) is forced to join a sadistic cult led by Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell), who kills and tortures other survivors of the rage virus. But when Jimmy’s leadership is called into question, he winds up on a collision course with the enigmatic Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), leading to one of the wildest scenes in modern cinema.
From our review:
O’Connell plays his part to perfection, earnestly selling the conceit that his character believes Satan sent both the rage virus and Jimmy himself to rid the world of human immorality. In a franchise defined by violent, sprinting zombies, O’Connell manages to be the scariest figure onscreen, though his followers often feel like interchangeable background actors just waiting to get killed off.
Diabolic
- Genre: Religious horror
- Run time: 1h 35m
- Director: Daniel J. Phillips
- Cast: Elizabeth Cullen, John Kim, Mia Challis
Desperate for a cure for her mysterious blackouts, Elise (Elizabeth Cullen) returns to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where she was raised to seek help from a healer. But she’s subjected to a ritual that turns her into a vessel for the spirit of a vengeful witch.
The Dreadful
- Genre: Gothic horror
- Run time: 1h 34m
- Director: Natasha Kermani
- Cast: Sophie Turner, Kit Harington, Marcia Gay Harden
Game of Thrones stars Sophie Turner and Kit Harington reunited for The Dreadful, which remakes the 1964 erotic horror film Onibaba, moving the story from Japan to medieval England. After her husband fails to return from the Wars of the Roses, Anne (Turner) starts a romance with her childhood friend Jago (Harrington), which her mother-in-law Morwen (Marcia Gay Harden) strongly discourages.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
- Genre: Martial arts
- Run time: 4h 35m
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Cast: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox
Quentin Tarantino’s supercut of his two-part film gets a home release, though you’ll probably need to give yourself an intermission. Watch the Bride (Uma Thurman) get revenge on the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad and their sadistic leader through a series of extremely stylish fight scenes set to a killer soundtrack.
Mercy
- Genre: Science fiction thriller
- Run time: 1h 40m
- Director: Timur Bekmambetov
- Cast: Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, Kali Reis
Accused of killing his wife, LAPD detective Christopher Raven (Chris Pratt) is put on trial by the Mercy Capital Court, where he has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to an AI judge (Rebecca Ferguson) or be executed on the spot. Raven’s investigation leads to dark truths about himself, his marriage, and the futuristic justice system.
No Other Choice
- Genre: Black comedy thriller
- Run time: 2h 19m
- Director: Park Chan-wook
- Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon
When he’s laid off from the papermaking company where he works, You Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) struggles to find a new job and support his family. After three months of unsuccessful applications and cost-cutting, he decides the best path forward is to start killing his competition.
