Weapons, the new unsettling thriller from Barbarian writer-director Zach Cregger, proved a major box-office draw as viewers packed theaters to experience its tense blend of dread and dark humor. The film, which follows a town reeling after the baffling disappearance of 17 children, is now available on VOD for the first time. This week’s home-viewing slate also includes a handful of smaller but memorable horror and sci‑fi entries — among them the faux true-crime piece Strange Harvest and the dreamlike dread of Somnium.
Ethan Coen’s latest, Honey Don’t, is likewise out to rent: a mordant neo-noir in which Margaret Qualley’s hard-boiled PI collides with Chris Evans’s charismatic and possibly shady reverend. For more pulse‑pounding fare, Starz is streaming the action thriller Shadow Force, featuring operatives on the run from their former employers.
Below is a curated list of notable new releases currently available to stream or rent at home, spotlighting standout and crowd-favorite titles you can watch right now.
New on Hulu
I Don’t Understand You
- Genre: Horror comedy
- Run time: 1 hr 36 min
- Directors: David Joseph Craig, Brian Crano
- Cast: Nick Kroll, Andrew Rannells, Morgan Spector
Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells star as a couple whose plans for a romantic anniversary trip to Italy spiral into calamity when their inability to speak the language turns into a cascade of comic misunderstandings — and unexpectedly violent consequences.
New on Starz
Shadow Force
- Genre: Action thriller
- Run time: 1 hr 43 min
- Director: Joe Carnahan
- Cast: Kerry Washington, Omar Sy, Mark Strong
Years after leaving a clandestine multinational unit known as Shadow Force, Kyrah Owens (Kerry Washington) and Isaac Sarr (Omar Sy) try to build a quiet life for their son. Their former commander, however, refuses to accept their exit, forcing them back into a dangerous fight for survival.
New to Rent
Honey Don’t
- Genre: Neo-noir
- Run time: 1 hr 29 min
- Director: Ethan Coen
- Cast: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans
From Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke comes a sly, acerbic noir centered on Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley), a hard-drinking private investigator whose probe into a client’s sudden death pulls her into a morally tangled web helmed by a persuasive clergyman.
Motherland
- Genre: Dystopian thriller
- Run time: 1 hr 34 min
- Director: Evan Matthews
- Cast: Miriam Silverman, Holland Taylor, Néstor Carbonell
In a society where the state raises children to promote fairness and ease family burdens, a devoted official (Miriam Silverman) discovers a sinister new program and risks everything to shield a young woman targeted for a troubling experiment.
Somnium
- Genre: Science-fiction horror
- Run time: 1 hr 32 min
- Director: Racheal Cain
- Cast: Chloë Levine, Will Peltz, Peter Vack
After a painful breakup, aspiring actor Gemma (Chloë Levine) takes a night shift at an experimental sleep clinic. Meant to unlock pleasant dreams, the facility’s treatments instead pull her into a disorienting, menacing alternate reality.
Strange Harvest
- Genre: Horror
- Run time: 1 hr 34 min
- Director: Stuart Ortiz
- Cast: Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andy Lauer
Styled as a stitched-together true-crime documentary, Strange Harvest assembles surveillance clips, home video, and other found footage to follow detectives as they piece together the ritualistic killings attributed to a killer known as “Mr. Shiny,” while darker, possibly supernatural implications emerge.
Weapons
- Genre: Horror mystery
- Run time: 2 hr 8 min
- Director: Zach Cregger
- Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich
Maybrook is shattered by the inexplicable disappearance of 17 children who vanished in the night. Through intersecting perspectives, Zach Cregger constructs an emotionally resonant and deeply unsettling portrait of a community desperate for answers.
From our review: the film sustains narrative momentum and delivers a finale that feels both surprising and earned, even as its multi-character approach leaves room for debate about whether the scope was strictly necessary.
A tense, satisfying payoff that keeps you thinking long after the credits roll.
Source: Polygon
