Fantastic Four: First Steps jumps from Earth 828 to Disney Plus, offering another chance to do your MCU homework before Avengers: Judgment Day. Meanwhile, films about Frankenstein are often Halloween tariffbut Guillermo del Toro interprets the story of a mad scientist who creates a monster as a deeply emotional gothic tale. After a limited theatrical run, Netflix will release The Thing to streaming this weekend.
If you're looking for real horror, Black phone 2 is much scarier than the original and encourages you to rent it. Keanu Reeves gets a chance to relax and smile as a guardian angel. Good luckwhich is coming down to VOD.
Here's a rundown of the most notable new streaming and VOD releases, including the biggest, best, and hottest new movies you can watch at home right now.
New on Netflix
Frankenstein
- Genre: Gothic science fiction
- Lead time: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Director: Guillermo del Toro
- Throw: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth
Guillermo del Toro delivers a sumptuous gothic take on Mary Shelley's classic novel. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) is an idealistic perfectionist who builds beautiful creature (Jacob Elordi). The film becomes a heartfelt melodrama as the Creature struggles with his existence and feelings for his creator, but also discovers love.
The wick is pain
- Genre: Documentary
- Lead time: 2 hours 6 minutes
- Director: Jeffrey Dow
Filmed over the course of a decade The wick is pain chronicles the creation John Wick franchise Through the efforts of Keanu Reeves and stuntmen, directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch became directors. Like the feature-length DVD extra, it also focuses on the making of some of the series' biggest action sequences.
New on Disney Plus
Fantastic Four: First Steps
- Genre: Superhero
- Lead time: 1h 54m
- Director: Matt Shakman
- Throw: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Julia Garner, Ralph Ineson
Four astronauts are exposed to cosmic rays and return to a retrofuturistic version of Earth with incredible powers. They become the Fantastic Four and use their powers to bring peace to the world. But when an alien visitor (Julia Garner) claims their world will be devoured by the ancient being Galactus (Ralph Ineson), the team desperately tries to protect their family and the planet.
From our review:
Apocalyptic stakes are nothing new for the MCU, although this film could at least generate some tension due to the fact that since it's set on an alternate Earth, it doesn't actually need to survive for the franchise to continue. The bigger problem is that including a galaxy-spanning threat in a film that works best as an intimate story about family bonds is tonally out of whack.
New on Paramount Plus
Cutout
- Genre: Psychological thriller
- Lead time: 1h 36m
- Director: Sean Ellis
- Throw: Orlando Bloom, Caitriona Balfe, John Turturro
A boxer (Orlando Bloom) is given the chance to restart his career with a championship bout, but he has only six days to lose enough weight to get into fighting shape. Using a brutal and dangerous regimen designed by his trainer (John Turturro), he risks his health and sanity for a chance at redemption.
New about Schuder
Abraham's Boys: The Story of Dracula
- Genre: Horror
- Lead time: 1h 30m
- Director: Natasha Kermani
- Throw: Titus Welliver, Jocelyn Donahue, Judah McKee
Abraham Van HelsingBosch star Titus Welliver has always been a strict and overprotective father, but when he becomes paranoid that a terrible evil is about to attack his wife, Van Helsing's sons wonder if their father is going crazy. Reimagining the story of Dracula as a family drama based on the story Locke and Key And Black phone by Joe Hill.
New for rent
Black phone 2
- Genre: Supernatural Horror
- Lead time: 1h 54m
- Director: Scott Derrickson
- Throw: Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke
Writer/director team Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are getting much more ambitious with their 2021 sequel to the low-budget horror film. Black phone. Four years after he was kidnapped by a masked serial killer (Ethan Hawke), Finn (Mason Thames) and his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) struggle with their psychic abilities and what they owe to the dead people who keep calling.
From our review:
The sequel loses its small-scale, intense focus in favor of supernatural effects and Conjuring-level action. At its best, it's much scarier than the first film. But it also has a level of utter silliness that Derrickson and Cargill avoided in Black Phone.
The boys go to Jupiter
- Genre: Adult animation
- Lead time: 1h 30m
- Director: Julian Glander
- Throw: Jack Corbett, Janeane Garofalo, Tavi Gevinson
Julian Glander wrote, directed and produced this decidedly weird animated film. The boys go to Jupiterwhich follows Billy (Jack Corbett), a brilliant 16-year-old whose delivery job leads him to encounter a lot of strange people. When Billy discovers an alien creature, he must decide whether to turn it in for a quick buck.
Good luck
- Genre: Supernatural comedy
- Lead time: 1h 37m
- Director: Aziz Ansari
- Throw: Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves
Gabriel (Keanu Reeves), a minor guardian angel, tries to do more good by swapping the lives of poor Arge (Aziz Ansari) and rich tech tycoon Jeff (Seth Rogen) to teach them both a lesson. But Arge is in no hurry to return to his difficult life, and Gabriel's experiment leads to him being fired from his divine work and turned into a human.
Murder of faith
- Genre: Supernatural Western
- Lead time: 1h 49m
- Director: Ned Crowley
- Throw: Guy Pearce, DeWanda Wise, Emily Ford, Bill Pullman
A young girl (Emily Ford) living in 1849 seems to kill everything she touches. Seeking answers, her mother (DeWanda Wise) hires an ether addicted doctor (Guy Pearce) to take the girl to a healer (Bill Pullman) who may be able to help. But their journey across the border is filled with horrors.
