Weapons, the latest horror movie from Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger, was a huge box office success as audiences flocked to theaters to share the gasps and laughs in the unsettling and surprisingly funny story of a community looking for answers after 17 children go missing. Now you can find the film on VOD for the first time. This week also offers plenty of smaller horror movies to rent, with the faux true crime documentary Strange Harvest and the nightmarish science fiction film Somnium.
Honey Don’t, the latest film from Ethan Coen, is also available to rent. The darkly funny neo-noir features Chris Evans playing a shady reverend at odds with Margaret Qualley’s private eye. For some more action, watch Kyrah Owens and Isaac Sarr play special forces operatives on the run from their former employer in Shadow Force on 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 Hulu
I Don’t Understand You
- Genre: Horror comedy
- Run time: 1h 36
- Director: David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano
- Cast: Nick Kroll, Andrew Rannells, Morgan Spector
Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells of Big Mouth play a gay couple looking to celebrate their anniversary with a dream vacation in Italy before they adopt a child. Unfortunately, they don’t know any Italian and the language barrier leads to a series of miscommunications and murders.
New on Starz
Shadow Force
- Genre: Action thriller
- Run time: 1h 43m
- Director: Joe Carnahan
- Cast: Kerry Washington, Omar Sy, Mark Strong
Eight years ago, Kyrah Owens (Kerry Washington of Scandal and Little Fires Everywhere) and Isaac Sarr (Omar Sy of Lupin and Jurassic World) joined a multinational special forces group dubbed Shadow Force, but they’ve left that life behind to raise their son. Their old boss (played by Mark Strong of Shazam! and Sherlock Holmes) doesn’t accept their resignation and is trying to hunt them down.
New to rent
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.
Motherland
- Genre: Dystopian thriller
- Run time: 1h 34m
- Director: Evan Matthews
- Cast: Miriam Silverman, Holland Taylor, Néstor Carbonell
Children are raised by the state in the world of Motherland, a policy meant to ensure equality and make life easier for parents. But when one of the system’s enforcers (Tony-winner Miriam Silverman) learns more about the Children’s Centers, she decides to risk her life to protect a young woman from a new program meant to grow the population.
Somnium
- Genre: Science fiction horror
- Run time: 1h 32m
- Director: Racheal Cain
- Cast: Chloë Levine, Will Peltz, Peter Vack
After a bad breakup, Gemma (Chloë Levine) moves to Los Angeles to try to make it as an actor, filling her days with auditions while working night watching over patients at an experimental sleep clinic. While the treatments are meant to help clients realize their dreams, Gemma’s world turns into a surreal nightmare as she learns Somnium’s secrets.
Strange Harvest
- Genre: Horror
- Run time: 1h 34m
- Director: Stuart Ortiz
- Cast: Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andy Lauer
Framed as a true crime documentary about a serial killer dubbed “Mr. Shiny” committing ritualistic murders in Southern California, Strange Harvest uses cobbled together footage to track his crimes ranging from surveillance cameras to a violently interrupted makeup tutorial. The movie follows a pair of detectives who seek to find the killer while puzzling out the possibly cosmic implications of his crimes.
Weapons
- Genre: Horror mystery
- Run time: 2h 8m
- Director: Zach Cregger
- Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich
The town of Maybrook is torn apart by the mystery of what happened to 17 children from the same third-grade class who all got up during the night, ran into the darkness, and disappeared. Barbarian director Zach Cregger follows the perspective of multiple people searching for answers in this emotionally rich and deeply disturbing film.
From our review:
The questions with an elaborate mystery are always whether that narrative momentum can be sustained, and whether the journey is ultimately worthwhile. On the most elemental level, Weapons pays off big time. Once its grand finale falls into place, it feels both inevitable and delightfully fresh, perfectly timed to refute (or at least drown out) any mutterings of “That’s it?” Yet as the horror-movie high wears off, there are some lingering questions about why, precisely, this story required a multiple-POV ensemble approach.
