Don’t Worry Darling, Barbarian, and every new movie to watch at home

This weekend Pearl, the second installment in Ti West’s new slasher series starring Mia Goth, finally comes to VOD. The golden-age Hollywood icons of slasher filmmaking like Mary Poppins The Wizard of Oz aren’t to your liking, don’t worry, darling… Olivia Wilde’s Stepford WivesThis weekend, you can also watch the spooky thriller featuring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles on VOD.

As far as what else is new to watch on streaming this week, there’s the much-talked-about horror film BarbarianNow available on HBO Max. Wendell & WildStarting at Christmas NightmareDirector Henry Selick is available on Netflix. Also, the horror movie “The New Horror Terrorist” The Good NurseThe new series, which stars Jessica Chastain as well Eddie Redmayne in horror anthology episodes, is starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain. Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, A new version of All Quiet on The Western FrontAll available via Netflix

The Siegfried Sassoon biopic is not to be missed BenedictionHulu is home to horror movies Run Sweetheart Run Prime Video, animated DC super hero film Green Lantern: Take Care of My PowerHBO Max and many other services. We’ve got the lowdown on everything you should be watching on VOD and streaming this weekend. Enjoy!

Don’t Worry Darling

What to Watch:Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available for rent at $19.99

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Florence Pugh stars in Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to 2019’s BooksmartAlice (the doting wife of Harry Styles), is a rural 1950s town that has been secluded in the middle of a desert. Alice is forced to confront the horrors of her idyllic lifestyle and the supposed benevolent intentions her husband. But don’t worry, darling, everything’s fine!

Here’s our review

Pugh’s performance is enough of a recommendation to see this shiny, smoothly finished movie-that-feels-like-a-movie. Production design, cinematography, and costuming are all stunning and executed with great precision. Musically, it’s even richer and a little edgier, pitting crooning doo-wop and civilized jazz against John Powell’s unsettling, nervy score. The space between the discordant sounds and luxurious images can be felt as a gateway to a more challenging, provocative film. Wilde is determined to ensure everyone understands the point and has closed it.

Barbarian

What to Watch:On HBO Max, you can watch it live.

Photograph by 20th Century Studios

Zach Cregger (co-founder of) directed and wrote the script. The Whitest Kids U’KnowThis 2022 horror movie stars Georgina Camp (All My Friends Hate Me) as Tess, a young woman who shares an accidentally double-booked Airbnb with a polite (albeit odd) stranger (Bill Skarsgård). Things go about as well as you’d expect, though not exactly the way you’d think, as Tess finds herself caught in the grip of a nightmare that refuses to let her leave.

If Marcel the Shell with ShoesThis is an Airbnb ad that’s feature length. It comes wrapped in the comfort of emotional drama. BarbarianIt is the opposite of this.

Our review:

Horror movie BarbarianAn audience who is as ignorant as possible about the subject will be able to best approach it. The film’s trailer encourages this to a degree that may turn some viewers off: It divulges little beyond the film’s initial setup. Even in our spoiler-phobic times, keeping secrets makes sense for a horror movie — it’s simply scarier if viewers don’t know what’s coming. A well-constructed movie is only good if there aren’t any surprises. Its entire 102-minute duration is over. All its secrets have been revealed. BarbarianThere is still so much more to be discovered. There is more to it than the initial scary portrait that paints the dark, stormy picture of what can lurk in a home when two strangers find themselves together.

Pearl

What to Watch:Amazon, Apple and Vudu are available for purchase at $19.99

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Mia Goth returns in the prequel-sequel to Ti West’s 2022 slasher X as the eponymous Pearl, a bright-eyed yet violently repressed woman with dreams of escaping her family’s Texas farm to become a movie star in Hollywood. When Pearl’s path to stardom is stymied, she resorts to increasingly more desperate means of getting what she wants — at any cost.

Taken from our review

The first reason why you need to see is Pearl is Mia Goth’s mesmerizing, tour-de-force performance. The role is played by Mia Goth with sufficient innocence and hopefulness for viewers to root for them, even if she knows about future crimes in the future and is appalled by the choices made in the present. Technicolor Wonders may inspire the movie’s aesthetic. The Wizard of Oz, Goth’s performance is straight out of Alfred Hitchcock’s PsychoKind and charmed one moment, but terrifyingly deranged and dangerous the next.

Wendell & Wild

What to Watch:Netflix is available to stream

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Do you love Christmas Nightmare? How about? CoralineYou can also call it: James and The Giant Peach? These are purely rhetorical questions, mind you; you’d be a monster not to at the very least Similar to them, and we know you’re no monster. You are loved by us. Your taste is impeccable. Anyway, if you like those films you should check out director Henry Selick’s latest stop-motion film about two conniving demons (Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele) who attempt to trick a young girl named Kat (Lyric Ross) into summoning them to the mortal realm. This is what it sounds like Beetlejuice-y!

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities

What to Watch:Netflix is available to stream

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If there’s one thing Guillermo del Toro loves, it’s horror. In fact, he is so passionate about it that he has created an episode of his horror series for Netflix. Pan’s Labyrinth collaborator Guillermo Navarro, Vincenzo Natali (Splice), Ana Lily Amirpour (One Night, a Girl Goes Home Alone), Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), David Prior (The Empty Man(, ), and many more. Sure, it’s not a “movie” per se — but it’s certainly worth making time for this weekend!

All Quiet on The Western Front

What to Watch:Netflix is available to stream

Photo: Reiner Bajo

The third adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s devastating novel recounting the ravages of World War I. Edward Berger’s adaptation centers on the life of Paul Bäumer, an idealistic German soldier whose innocence and naiveté are shattered by the unremitting mortal toll of trench warfare and the indiscriminate death of loved ones and enemies alike.

Blade of the 47 Ronin

What to Watch:Netflix is available to stream

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The delayed sequel to Hiroyuki Sanada and Keanu Reeves-led 47 Ronin This one was directed by Ron Yuan, a long-standing actor and choreographer of fights.Mulan). Set three hundred years later Blade of the 47 RoninThis rare movie about samurai is set in contemporary times and stars Anna AkanaAnt-ManMark Dacascos (many fantastic movies), Mike MohHollywood: Once Upon a Time).

The Good Nurse

What to Watch:Netflix is available to stream

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Amy, played by Jessica Chastain), is exhausted from her job as a nurse and commiserates to Charlie (Eddie Redmayne), who was a kind colleague that offered her support and encouragement during long hours at the hospital. Charlie is placed in suspicion after a series of mysterious patient deaths. Amy is forced to risk her life and her safety in order to find the truth when confronted by these allegations.

If that weren’t bad enough, The Good NurseBased on an actual-life account. Yikes!

Benediction

What to Watch:Hulu is available to stream

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Terence Davies, a celebrated British filmmaker (A Quiet PassionThis biopic about Siegfried Sassoon, a British poet, returns to ). Jack Lowden (Slow HorsesPeter Capaldi and ).Doctor Who, Local HeroBoth actors play Sassoon during different periods in his life. It is a sensitive portrait of an anti-war poet and soldier.

Run Sweetheart Run

What to Watch:Prime Video available for streaming

Photo: Monica Lek/Amazon Studios

Blind dates can be disastrous. Case in point: The story of Cherie (Ella Balinska), a single mother who is tasked with going out on a date with Ethan (Pilou Asbæk), one of her boss’s most important clients. He’s charming, handsome, and absolutely unlike any other man she’s met. He’s great, except for one crucial detail: He’s secretly a violent killer who wants to hunt her.

Forced to play a deadly cat-and-mouse game with her pursuer, she’ll have to arm herself and find new allies in order to survive her unsuspecting role in a conspiracy that threatens to consume her.

Fletch or Confess

What to Watch:Showtime and Paramount Plus are streaming on Showtime; Rentable for $5.99 at Prime Video and Apple.

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Jon Hamm (Mad Men) stars in the 2022 comedy based on Gregory Mcdonald’s 1976 novel of the same name as Irwin Fletch, a roguishly charming man with a penchant for stumbling into trouble, who is implicated as the prime suspect in a series of hellacious murders. Can Fletch clear his name while tracking down the culprits behind his his fiancé’s stolen art collection? Well hell, he’s certainly going to try!

Resurrection

What to Watch:Shudder is available to stream

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Rebecca HallNight House) stars in Andrew Semans’ 2022 psychological thriller ResurrectionMargaret is a single mother and a highly successful pharmacist executive. Her carefully planned life becomes chaotic when David (Tim Roth) returns, a manipulative and charismatic man from her past.

Our review:

ResurrectionThis film is sure to divide people. It’s actively trying to provoke its audience, which some might find more upsetting than anything that actually happens in the film. And that’s fair enough. But whether or not it’s to anyone’s particular taste, the fact remains that this is an audacious film that asks viewers to take its hand and come along to some particularly dark, surreal, and grotesque places. Throughout that descent, it holds on with a grip that’s tight enough to keep it from spinning out into ridiculousness. It is remarkable that a film so bizarre could produce giggles rather than gasps.

The Lair

What to Watch:Shudder is available to stream

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A Royal Air Force pilot, Charlotte Kirk, is shot down in Afghanistan. He then stumbles across a bunker that houses a terrifying half-human/half-alien creature. If unleashed, it threatens every person it meets.

Blacklight

What to Watch:Prime Video and Paramount Plus are available to stream online

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It’s the last in a series of long-running, Long Here are a series of Liam Neeson-led action flicks. Blacklight stars Neeson as Travis Block, a government “fixer” with a particular set of skills that includes interrogation (i.e., beating people up) and infiltrating highly secured areas. Block is tasked with stealing his granddaughter and daughter to force him to cooperate in a plot against U.S. citizens. To get the girls back, Block goes on a killing spree against Gabriel Robinson (Aidan Quinn), FBI director.

Green Lantern: My Power is Dangerous

What to Watch:On HBO Max, you can watch it live.

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An animated superhero movie that tells John Stewart’s story, an ex-Marine Corps soldier, who decides to join Green Lantern Corps after his apparent death, Hal Jordan. John is caught in interplanetary conflict and must team up with Green Arrow, a Justice League member and Shayera Hol, a Thanagarian warrior to end the war. He will become a hero.

Take care of me

What to Watch:Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available for rent at $5.99

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Christopher Mulvin stars in this horror comedy.LoreJed is an unhappy man, who grieves the loss of his wife but blames himself. Jed makes friends with Lionel, a strange but kind man (Neal Ward), at a bar. It is his belief that the best way for him to repent is to let himself be slowly eaten to death, by Lionel, of course.