What’s New on Streaming This Weekend: The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Substance, Vicious and More

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This week’s at-home lineup is heavy on horror: The Conjuring: Last Rites — fresh off its record-setting opening weekend — arrives on VOD, Coralie Fargeat’s unsettling body-horror drama The Substance (featuring Demi Moore) debuts on HBO Max, and Bryan Bertino’s ritualistic mystery Vicious lands on Paramount+. If you’re after something lighter, the live-action How to Train Your Dragon touches down on Peacock and the body-swap comedy Freakier Friday is now available on VOD.

Below is a curated list of notable new movies arriving on streaming and rental services this week — the highlights, the biggest titles, and a few picks worth checking out.

New on Netflix

The Woman in Cabin 10

• Genre: Psychological thriller
• Run time: 1h 32m
• Director: Simon Stone
• Cast: Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, Art Malik

Based on Ruth Ware’s bestseller, this tense mystery follows journalist Laura Blacklock (Keira Knightley) as she reports on a luxury yacht’s charity cruise. After witnessing a passenger thrown overboard — only to be told everyone is accounted for — Laura’s attempts to uncover the truth put her directly in the crosshairs of whoever wants her silenced.

New on HBO Max

The Substance

• Genre: Body horror
• Run time: 2h 20m
• Director: Coralie Fargeat
• Cast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid

Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), a former showbiz icon turned TV personality, faces obsolescence when producers chase a younger host. She resorts to an illicit drug that manufactures a younger duplicate, Sue (Margaret Qualley. What begins as empowerment quickly curdles into a brutal struggle as the two iterations compete for identity, control, and survival.

New on Mubi

Lurker

• Genre: Psychological thriller
• Run time: 1h 41m
• Director: Alex Russell
• Cast: Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox

Matthew Morning (Théodore Pellerin) moves from obscurity to the inner circle after pop star Oliver notices his songs. As Matthew slides into the entourage role of documentarian, admiration curdles into obsession and the line between devotion and delusion becomes dangerously thin.

New on Paramount Plus

Vicious

• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 38m
• Director: Bryan Bertino
• Cast: Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack

Polly (Dakota Fanning) is thrust into a harrowing psychological contest when a mysterious woman arrives at night and orders her to pack something she loves, something she needs, and something she hates into a box — or die. As threats escalate, Polly confronts increasingly invasive and disturbing pressures that test her sanity.

New on Peacock

How to Train Your Dragon (Live-Action)

• Genre: Fantasy adventure
• Run time: 2h 5m
• Director: Dean DeBlois
• Cast: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gabriel Howell

Director Dean DeBlois adapts his beloved animated saga into a live-action epic about Hiccup, a young Viking who forms an unlikely bond with an injured dragon. The feature expands scenes and character moments, giving Hiccup and Toothless additional time to develop their friendship in flight.

New to rent

Beast of War

• Genre: Thriller
• Run time: 1h 27m
• Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
• Cast: Mark Coles Smith, Joel Nankervis, Sam Delich

After their ship founders in the Timor Sea, a band of Australian WWII soldiers cling to a life raft as hunger, heat, and infighting take their toll — and an enormous great white lurks beneath the waves, turning the men’s survival struggle into a claustrophobic nightmare.

Cloud

• Genre: Psychological thriller
• Run time: 2h 3m
• Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Cast: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira

Yoshii (Masaki Suda) builds a lucrative resale business online, but as his success grows he alienates customers, suppliers, and anyone who stands in his way. Those he mistreats conspire to reclaim what’s been taken, and their retaliation becomes increasingly violent.

The Conjuring: Last Rites

• Genre: Supernatural horror
• Run time: 2h 15m
• Director: Michael Chaves
• Cast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Tomlinson

Touted as the final chapter in the long-running Conjuring saga, Last Rites follows Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) as they tackle a chilling possession involving a haunted mirror and a large, troubled family. The film balances traditional jump scares with quieter family drama, leaning into the franchise’s emblematic atmosphere and the leads’ steady performances.

From our review: the movie delivers on frights in many places, though its 135-minute runtime and an attempt to render a sweeping family portrait sometimes blunt the film’s momentum; the Warrens remain compelling anchors, even when the surrounding characters feel underdeveloped.

Freakier Friday

• Genre: Fantasy comedy
• Run time: 1h 51m
• Director: Nisha Ganatra
• Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters

The sequel ramps up the chaos of the original body-swap premise: wedding plans, crossed identities, and generational confusion collide when Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and her family swap places with one another, forcing everyone to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes before the big ceremony.

Him

• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 36m
• Director: Justin Tipping
• Cast: Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox

Rising football star Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers) faces an uncertain future after a serious head injury. An invitation from idol quarterback Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans) offers a possible comeback, but the regime that follows pushes Cameron into harrowing physical and psychological territory.

The Pickup

• Genre: Heist comedy
• Run time: 1h 34m
• Director: Tim Story
• Cast: Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Eva Longoria

Mismatched partners Russel (Eddie Murphy) and Travis (Pete Davidson) manage an armored truck while juggling personal goals. When a weekend fling turns out to be a cunning criminal who coerces them into a heist, the pair must scramble to save both their jobs and relationships.

Solvent

• Genre: Supernatural horror
• Run time: 1h 34m
• Director: Johannes Grenzfurthner
• Cast: Jon Gries, Aleksandra Cwen, Johannes Grenzfurthner

While investigating a remote Austrian farmhouse for lost Nazi records, a group of researchers uncovers an ancient evil that predates the regime. Their curiosity becomes an obsession that threatens to consume them and everything they hold dear.

Traumatika

• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 21m
• Director: Pierre Tsigaridis
• Cast: Rebekah Kennedy, Ranen Navat, Emily Goss

When a string of child abductions plagues Los Angeles, a mother watching her son’s escalating night terrors begins to suspect something supernatural. As possession and generational trauma surface, a long-buried evil reveals itself.

Source: Polygon