Looking to settle in with a good movie? Me too. That's why I've pored over release schedules to bring you the best original and new-to-streaming movies you can watch on Netflix, Prime, Max, Hulu, and other streaming platforms this week.
MaXXXine (2024)
In MaXXXine, the third and final installment in Ti West's X trilogy, Mia Goth reprises her role as Maxine Minx, the adult-film actress from X. With the unpleasantness on the farm behind her, Minx moves to Hollywood to make it big. But there is more unpleasantness in store in the form of a psycho killer who targets people connected to her. West established himself as one the most original and ferocious directors in horror with X and Pearl, and MaXXXine more than lives up to its predecessors.
Where to stream: Max
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sarah
What kind of jerk would want to mess with quirky, indie-folk duo Tegan and Sarah? "Fegan" (as fans call fake-Tegan) hacked into Tegan's files and spent 15 years impersonating her in order to trick the band's fan base into fake friendships and fake romantic relationships. Fanatical digs deeply into the mystery, interviewing victims, experts, and band members, in an effort to track down the person behind the catfish.
Where to stream: Hulu
Family Guy Halloween Special
Everybody likes Halloween specials right? Family Guy has put out sporadic Halloween episodes over its 23-season run, but this year, they're making a whole thing about it, like The Simpsons. So if you want to see Stewie's teddy bear Rupert become a knife-wielding killer, the gang compete in a pumpkin carving contest, and more Family Guy-style Halloween madness, check it out.
Where to stream: Hulu
The Last of the Sea Women
For countless generations on South Korea’s Jeju Island, the haenyeo, sea women, have been free-diving to harvest seafood for their livelihood. But changing times and a changing ocean suggest that the few remaining sea women, most in their 60s, 70s, or 80s, may be the last. But they are not going down without a fight. The Last of the Sea Women chronicles this crew of feisty, funny real-life mermaids, and their unlikely champions on social media, as they fight to maintain a strange and beautiful way of life.
Where to stream: Apple TV+
Witches movie collection
Smaller streamer The Criterion Channel consistently creates interesting movie collections, but they've outdone themselves with October's witch-themed program. It contains every kind of witchy delight, from indisputable classics like Rosemary's Baby and Suspiria, to "reconsider this" choices like 1996's Sabrina the Teenage Witch, to fascinating obscurities like the excellent The Love Witch and The Girl on the Broomstick, a 1972 Czechoslovak fantasy-comedy that I watched last night with my jaw on the floor. Please watch all these movies:
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The Witches (1990)
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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The Crucible (1996)
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The Love Witch (2016)
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The Witches (1967)
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Suspiria (1972)
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Black Sunday (1960)
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El Demonio (1963)
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Viy (1967)
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Alison's Birthday (1981)
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The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
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Haxan (1922)
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Witch Madness (1999)
Where to stream: The Criterion Channel
Last week's picks
Caddo Lake
HBO original movie Caddo Lake tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl at spooky Caddo Lake. The search uncovers a series of past deaths and disappearances that shakes the girl's family to their core. Directed by Celine Held and Logan George, Caddo Lake was produced by horror auteur M. Night Shyamalan.
Where to stream: Max
Mr. Crocket
Set in the 1990s, Mr. Crocket digs into the horror of childhood and the weirdness of kids' TV. The title character is the star of Mr. Crocket's World, a kiddie TV show that hides a dark secret: It seems the host, Mr. Crocket, likes climbing out of the television, into your living room, and taking your children. The mother of a victim is forced to face her own demons to rescue her child from this TV-based monster. Maybe it's a metaphor?
Where to stream: Hulu
Sting
If you want to confront your deeply buried (or surface-level) arachnophobia, check out Sting; it features one scary-ass spider. Alyla Browne plays Charlotte, a rebellious tween who discovers a tiny spider and raises it as a pet, but the little guy doesn't stop growing and soon becomes a huge flesh-eating monstrosity that targets her family. If you're a fan of creature-feature flicks that don't take themselves too seriously, well, here's one of them.
Where to stream: Hulu
Lonely Planet
Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth star in a thoughtful-but-steamy movie with a May/December romance at its center. Dern plays Katherine, a novelist who travels to Morocco to get over her writers' block. Love is the last thing she's looking for, but when she's thrown together with Owen (Hemsworth) on a roadtrip across North Africa, it finds her anyway. Lonely Planet is the perfect movie if you want to squeeze just a little more heat out of summer before autumn gets too chilly.
Where to stream: Netflix
See for Me
This is a good month for taut, high-concept thrillers on Netflix. See for Me is a home invasion movie in which Skyler Davenport plays Sophie Scott, a blind woman who is cat sitting at an isolated home. When murderous thieves break in, Sophie's only hope comes via an app designed to help sight-impaired people by letting strangers see through their camera phones. Sophie's survival depends on letting a stranger from across the continent be her eyes.
Where to stream: Netflix
Tuesday (2023)
Put on your crying shoes for this one (if you don't have special crying shoes, I recommend something plush and soothing). In Tuesday, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a single mother whose teenage daughter has a terminal illness. Death and dying are given the magical realism treatment, as Death itself shows up in the form of a sentient parrot. There aren't many quirky movies about the death of a child, but there is now at least one of them.
Where to stream: Max
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