October 9, 2024
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Cuckoo, Challengers and all the new movies streaming this week

Every week at Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.

This week, Blink twicethe new psychological horror film from actress and director Zoë Kravitz, is available to buy and rent on VOD, after its theatrical release last month. There's also the horror thriller Cuckoostarring Hunter Schafer, which is also available to rent and buy on VOD. If none of these movies interest you, don't worry; there are plenty of other new releases to stream this week, such as By Jane Schoenbrun I saw the TV shine In Max, By Luca Guadagnino ChallengersThe mystery of Norwegian terror Handling the Undead on Hulu and much more!

Here's everything new to watch this weekend!

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon sitting on a couch in His Three Daughters.

Their three daughters. (L-R) Natasha Lyonne as Rachel, Elizabeth Olsen as Christina, and Carrie Coon as Katie in Their three daughters. Credit: Sam Levy/Netflix © 2024.
Photo: Sam Levy/Netflix

Gender: Drama
Execution time: 1h 41min
Director:
Azazel Jacobs
Cast:
Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen

This family drama follows three estranged sisters who reunite during the final days of their ailing father. The tension between the three is further exacerbated because one of them is not biologically related to the rest. Old animosity is rekindled, but the three must overcome their differences in order to spend their final moments with their father.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

Jon Arbuckle slices parmesan cheese over Garfield's lasagna as Odie watches in an image from The Garfield Movie

Image: Sony Pictures

Gender: Adventure comedy
Execution time: 1h 41min
Director: Marco Dindal
Cast: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson and Hannah Waddingham

It's Chris Pratt! As Garfield! The lazy orange cat reunites with his long-lost father, Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, among others). Along with Odie, Vic and Garfield plan a farm robbery so they can steal lots of milk to appease the Persian cat crime boss Vic works for. The film is directed by Mark Dindal, best known for The Emperor's Follies.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

A woman holds the lifeless body of a child in her arms next to a boat surrounded by a reed swamp in Undead Handling.

Image: Neon

Gender: Horror drama
Execution time: 1h 37min
Director: Thea Hvistendahl
Cast: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars

There are plenty of horror movies about the dead coming back to life. None of them are like… Handling the UndeadHowever, based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2005 novel, the film follows the story of three families living in Oslo whose loved ones mysteriously rise from the dead as semi-conscious corpses. How will they handle this new phenomenon? Is it a second chance to say goodbye… or a curse?

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max

Owen (Justice Smith), a twenty-something movie theater employee, stands in a darkened room and looks into the camera, with a slide on the screen behind him that says

Image: A24/Everett Collection

Gender: Psychological horror
Execution time: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Director: Jane Schönbrun
Cast:
Judge Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Helena Howard

If you haven't had a chance to check out Jane Schoenbrun's critically acclaimed psychological horror drama yet, don't worry: There is still timeespecially now that the film is available to stream on Max. Justice Smith stars as Owen, an isolated teen who forms a bond with an older classmate, Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine), through a television series called The dull pinkHowever, as the years go by, Owen realizes that there is more to the show (and his own reality) than meets the eye.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Teenager Tashi (Zendaya, in a bright red sweater) sits on a hotel bed, eyes closed, chin up, hands at her sides, as Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O'Connor) sit on either side of her, each passionately kissing her neck, in Challengers.

Image: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/YouTube

Gender: Sports drama
Execution time: 2 hours and 11 minutes
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist

Luca Guadagnino's sensual sports drama about a love triangle in professional tennis has set certain circles of the world alight since its release in late April, and is One of the best films of the year.Now you can enjoy it at home.

That script is a great three-course meal for Faist and O'Connor. They can swap roles as protagonists and villains from scene to scene and time to time, with Art and Patrick helping and hurting each other in equal measure. But it's an absolute buffet for Zendaya, who Even in leading roles has I've never been given so much space Tashi is a gratifyingly rich character, at once justifiably angry at the failure of her ambitions and cruelly angry at all the men who have the nerve to keep playing the game that was taken from her. She is simultaneously hungry for affection and withholding it, at times sensually curious and at times coldly dispassionate, ambitious and exhausted, conflicted and confident. She is the kind of character that media master’s theses are made of, and unravelling Tashi’s conflicted motives and how she integrates them is likely to become a pop culture obsession in the coming months.

Where to watch: Available to stream on AMC Plus

A close-up of a woman playing guitar at Dandelion.

Image: IFC Films

Gender: Drama
Execution time:
1h 53min
Director:
Nicole Riegel
Cast: KiKi Layne, Thomas Doherty and Melanie Nicholls-King

Ki Ki Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk) stars in this musical drama as Dandelion, a singer-songwriter who travels the country performing concerts, all the while yearning for a big career break that she fears will never happen. After striking up a romance with Casey (Thomas Doherty), a disaffected musician, their love proves to be the unwitting catalyst for Dandelion discovering an authentic artistic voice of her own.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Gretchen (Euphoria's Hunter Schafer), a teenager with her face and hands covered in blood, sits outside against a glass door and waves a knife at an unseen assailant in Tilman Singer's Cuckoo.

Image: Neon/Everett Collection

Gender: Horror
Execution time: 1h 42min
Director: Singer Tilman
Cast:
Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens and Jessica Henwick

Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) stars in this horror film as Gretchen, a teenager who has recently lost her mother. After being forced to move to the Bavarian Alps by her father and stepmother, she is hired to work for Herr König (Dan Stevens), the owner of the hotel her parents were commissioned to build. However, Gretchen soon discovers that there is something far more sinister beneath the surface of this idyllic resort.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Two women holding cocktail shakers and screaming happily in Blink Twice.

Image: Amazon MGM Studios

Gender: Psychological thriller
Execution time: 1h 42min
Director:
Zoe Kravitz
Cast:
Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum and Christian Slater

Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut is a psychological thriller about a waitress named Frida (Naomi Ackie) who is whisked away to a private island by a tech mogul for a lavish party getaway. But Frida begins to notice something strange is going on with the female guests. Fun fact: the film's working title was Pussy Islandbut the Motion Picture Association of America had a problem with that.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Two women stare intently at a computer monitor in a cluttered lab in the Omni Loop.

Image: Magnolia Pictures

Gender: Sci-Fi Drama
Execution time:
1h 47min
Director:
Bernardo Britto
Cast:
Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Carlos Jacott

Omnidirectional loop It premiered at the 2024 South by Southwest festival. It's a sci-fi drama about a Florida woman named Zoya (Mary-Louise Parker) who teams up with a scientist to solve the problem of time travel, due to the black hole growing inside her chest. It's not just about time travel, but a time loop and a lot of strange things that happen as Zoya deals with her life and her regrets.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu

A group of people stand around a strange glowing object on a desk in Afraid.

Photography: Glen Wilson/Sony Pictures

Gender: Sci-Fi Horror
Execution time:
1h 24min
Director:
Chris Weitz
Cast:
John Cho, Katherine Waterston and Havana Rose Liu

Remember Smart homeThat 1999 sci-fi comedy about a fully automated house voiced by Katey Sagal that goes crazy? Well, imagine if that movie was a horror thriller and you had the essence of Scaredthe new film by director Chris Weitz (The golden compass, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) starring John Cho and Katherine Waterston.

When a happy family decides to try out AIA (Havana Rose Liu), a commercial artificial intelligence designed to help them better organize their family life, they couldn't be happier with the results. That is, until the AI ​​begins psychologically manipulating the family and harming those close to them in its twisted desire to be part of the family.

Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple and Vudu

Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne look through a spaceship's porthole toward a nearby planet in Slingshot.

Image: Bleecker Street Media

Gender: Sci-Fi Thriller
Execution time: 1h 48min
Director: Mikael Håfström
Cast: Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham

This sci-fi thriller stars Casey Affleck (Manchester by the sea) as John, an astronaut aboard an experimental spacecraft designed to conduct a multi-year mission to Saturn's moon Titan. When the passengers aboard the ship begin to suspect that the mission has somehow been compromised, John must work alongside the ship's captain (Laurence Fishburne) to find a solution and survive.

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