X, 4 new Netflix movies, and everything new you can watch

This weekend Choose or DieThe 2022 horror video-game film featuring Iola Evans stars in “The Killing,”Carnival RowAsa Butterfield (The Sex EducationThe series premiered on Netflix. If you’re not looking for 1980s-themed throwback horror and haunted technology à la 2004’s Be Alive not to worry — there’s plenty of great new releases on streaming and VOD this week to choose from.

Additional to You can choose to either Di or ChooseThe Spanish comedy drama e Today, We Fix the WorldThe Polish romance comedy The Taming of the ShrewdThe Nigerian Drama The Man of GodAll of them are welcome to Netflix this weekend. Check out the latest horror movie from The House of the DevilTi West’s film starring Mia Goth is finally available to VOD. Wyrmwood: ApocalypseAnd the sci-fi horror thriller of cerebral science. Chariot starring John Malkovich.

Biopic of the Philippine-Japanese sport biopic Gensan PunchHBO Max will be the home of The Haunted House, the horror thriller about a haunted house. The CellarShudder. Ah, did I also mention another 2021 film by the director of? Drive My CarWhat’s coming to Criterion Channel on this weekend? Like I said, there’s a LotYou have a wide selection of movies!

To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch on streaming and VOD this weekend.

Choose or Die

You should be watching:Netflix is available to stream

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Horror film 2022 Choose or Die stars Iola Evans as Kayla, a broke college student and coder who stumbles upon an obscure ’80s text-based survival game supposedly tied to a still-unclaimed $100,000 prize. But this isn’t it? The Ready Player OneThink Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Aided by her friend Isaac (Asa Butterfield), Kayla quickly discovers that the game, named “CURS>R,” is (unsurprisingly) cursed as the choices made in the game begin to bleed over into reality in increasingly more terrifying ways. Jon Foster said it in 2006’s film. Keep Your Head Up, “If you die in the game, you die for real.” Also, Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) shows up as a fictionalized version of himself — neat! From the review:

It takes 84 minutes Choose or DieThis is a fast-paced film with a lot of heart. It also has strong storytelling. Kayla is given a rich inner world by Evans, an unexpected newcomer. She’s a bundle of stress and exhaustion, all fleshed out over her hardened face. Her performance begs for other components around her to feel similarly elevated, a request the film can’t complete because of its frustrating simplicity. In that regard, one of the film’s biggest offenders is the wishy-washy character Lance (Ryan Gage), who might work in the building, might be in a sexual relationship with Kayla’s mother, and is definitely her dealer, but languishes as a cartoonish trash predator who’s barely feigning believability.

X

You should be watching:Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available for rent at $19.99

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Ti West’s 2022 horror film stars Mia Goth (SuspiriaMaxine Minx is an actress and producer who travels to Texas to make an adult film with Wayne Henderson (Martin Henderson). The crew is suddenly stalked by the reclusive host and threatened with physical harm. They must flee in a desperate attempt to save their lives. This is our review

Ti West isn’t content with the porn-shoot idea being turned into a horror series. However, he has bigger plans. The adult-film angle serves two purposes — it puts a meta spin on the practically mandatory nudity and adult content of R-rated slasher films, and it uses the adult industry to speak about indie filmmaking at large. First half of the movie is about independent filmmaking and the joys that come with grabbing some like-minded people and their cameras and going to remote locations to create movies. At the Q&A following the film’s SXSW premiere, Ti West spoke about the similarities between horror and porn in the 1970s — specifically, the desire to break free from studio systems and make a name for yourself, with nothing in hand but a good idea.

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

You should be watching:Criterion Channel is available for streaming

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As he directed his Oscar-nominated 2021 drama Drive My CarRyusuke Hayaguchi directed another lesser-known, but equally important masterpiece, the romance drama anthology. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy. Spanning three different stories involving a love triangle, a plot by a college student to ensnare his professor, and a serendipitous meeting and confession, Hamaguchi’s film explores the complexities, frustrations, and catharsis of human relationships in loving attentive detail.

Gensan Punch

You should be watching:On HBO Max, you can watch it live.

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This is a sports biopic about Nao Tsuyama, a boxer with a prosthetic leg who moved to Philippines to pursue his career and became known as “Gensan.” From award-winning Filipino director Brillante Mendoza, Gensan Punch In 2021, won the Kim Jiseok Award at Busan International Film Festival.

The Cellar

You should be watching:Shudder is available to stream

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Horror story set in a haunted home The Cellar is both the title of this movie and the place where protagonist Keira Woods’ (Elisha Cuthbert) teenage daughter disappears. Keira discovers that there is something sinister and ancient lurking within the house as she searches for her.

Wyrmwood: Apocalypse

You should be watching:Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Vudu are all available to rent at $6.99

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Follow-up to 2014’s cult hit Wyrmwood, this Australian action-horror franchise looks to continue the “Mad Max But with zombies” Feel the first. This movie follows Rhys, a soldier who realizes his “work” has been doing more harm than good. Rhys views the encounter with a zombie-human hybrid as an opportunity to save the world.

The Taming of the Shrewd

You should be watching:Netflix is available to stream

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Polish romance comedy Kaska, played by Magdalena Lampraska (Magdalena Lampraska), follows a scientist returning home to her family after she was dumped. When her return interferes with her brother’s plans to sell the family’s land, he hires a handsome stranger (Mikolaj Roznerski) to woo her and convince her to agree to the sale. Surprisingly, they fall in love! The TV-MA tag of Netflix is given to this one, which means that you can expect a more romantic rom-com than their American offering.

Today we Fix the World

You should be watching:Netflix is available to stream

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Spanish comedy drama Today we Fix the World follows David (Leonardo Sbaraglia), a highly successful workaholic TV producer and an emotionally absent father to his 9 year old son Benito (Benjamín Otero). When Benito’s birth mother confides to David that he may not be the boy’s father on her deathbed, the two set out on an emotional journey to find Benito’s actual biological father while exploring the extent of their own complicated relationship.

The Man of God

You should be watching:Netflix streaming available on April 16

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An uplifting drama from Nigeria that is faith-based The Man of God Samuel Nnani (Akah) is the story of Samuel, who was raised by a strict pastor and pushed away from his family. When Samuel feels the pull back to his faith, he’s caught between the multiple worlds he occupies.

Chariot

You should be watching:Rentable for as low as $5.99 at Amazon and $6.99 on Apple or Vudu

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John Malkovich is the star of 2022’s sci-fi thriller Chariot as Dr. Karn, an eccentric specialist who oversees a process of technologically-assisted reincarnation for unwitting test subjects. After experiencing strange visions, Harrison (Thomas Mann), a young man who had loved Rosa Salazar in his past lives, turns to Karn to help him. With time running out, Karn must cure Harrison’s condition or risk endangering the entire system of artificial reincarnation. This may sound like an amalgamation of the 2020 supernatural drama and this. 9 Days and Lisa Joy’s neo-noir thriller MemoriesThe trailer is available here Chariot looks far freakier than even that, with strangers floating through space like glitched-out avatars and mysterious figures clad in high-tech plague masks that look like something out of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.