It’s a big week for horror franchises, with the 2025 legacy sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer coming to Netflix. The film follows a new group of friends that cover up a deadly car crash, but need help from the survivors of the 1997 film to avoid getting murdered for their crimes. If you’re looking for someone else in the spooky arena, sequels to both The Jester and The Strangers unleash new scares on VOD.
For fans of science fiction horror, The Astronaut touches down on VOD. Meanwhile, the monsters in Netflix’s animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits are just a mean couple, but they are very nasty.
Here’s a rundown of the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, including the biggest, best, and most popular new movies you can watch at home right now.
New on Netflix
Good News
- Genre: Black comedy
- Run time: 2h 16m
- Director: Byun Sung-hyun
- Cast: Sul Kyung-gu, Hong Kyung, Ryoo Seung-bum
Inspired by the real 1970 hijacking of a Japanese passenger plane, Good News follows an absurd attempt to safely land the aircraft. While the hijackers want to take it to Pyongyang, a shadowy agent called Nobody (Sul Kyung-gu) hatches a plan with intelligence and military teams to trick them into arriving in Seoul instead.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
- Genre: Slasher horror
- Run time: 1h 51m
- Director: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
- Cast: Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr.
A group of friends cover up a car accident they were involved in, but their crime comes back to haunt them in the form of a hooked killer. Sound familiar? Once murdered in fishermen’s gear starts stalking them, the young would-be victims seek advice from the last group to face the wrath of a vengeful killer in the seaside town: Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewett reprising their roles from the 1997 version of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The Twits
- Genre: Animated musical
- Run time: 1h 38m
- Director: Phil Johnston
- Cast: Margo Martindale, Johnny Vegas, Natalie Portman
Wreck-it Ralph and Zootopia writer Phil Johnston co-writes and directs a very loose adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1980 kids book about an awful couple. Here they run an amusement park powered by the tears of captured magical creatures until their schemes are foiled by meddling orphans.
New on Hulu
40 Acres
- Genre: Post-apocalyptic thriller
- Run time: 1h 53m
- Director: R.T. Thorne
- Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O’Connor
In a bleak near future, a family in rural Canada endures by remaining isolated, farming, and training for eventual violence. Their preparation is put to the test when a vicious militia kills the Union Army meant to protect the area and advances on their home looking to take everything they’ve built.
New on Shudder
Other
- Genre: Horror
- Run time: 1h 35m
- Director: David Moreau
- Cast: Olga Kurylenko, Jean Schatz, Lola Bonaventure
Alice (Olga Kurylenko) is estranged from her mother, but returns to her childhood home to settle her affairs after her death. There she finds the house is rigged with surveillance cameras and packed with disturbing tapes. A sinister presence lurking in the house leads to a dark revelation.
New to rent
The Astronaut
- Genre: Science fiction horror
- Run time: 1h 31m
- Director: Jess Varley
- Cast: Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna
Astronaut Sam Walker (Kate Mara) wakes up back on Earth with no memory of what went wrong on her mission to the International Space Station. Stuck in quarantine while the Pentagon investigates, Sam starts experiencing strange bruising and hallucinations that make her wonder if she came back home alone.
The Jester 2
- Genre: Horror
- Run time: 1h 27m
- Director: Colin Krawchuk
- Cast: Michael Sheffield, Kaitlyn Trentham, Jessica Ambuehl
Teen magician Max (Kaitlyn Trentham) doesn’t have anyone to hang out with on Halloween, but she gets a far more exciting night out than she wanted when a sinister supernatural killer known as the Jester forces her to play a deadline game. She’ll need to escape his dangerous illusions to survive the night.
The Strangers: Chapter 2
- Genre: Horror
- Run time: 1h 38m
- Director: Renny Harlin
- Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Ema Horvath
The second film in a planned trilogy follows The Strangers: Chapter 1 survivor Maya Lucas (Madelaine Petsch) as she continues to be pursued by sadistic masked killers. Unable to get the authorities to take the threat seriously, Maya can’t figure out who to trust as the killers try to finish their massacre.
