The Nun 2, Netflix’s Fair Play, and every new movie to now watch at home

Happy Friday, Polygon movie watchers! Each week, we spherical up essentially the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the most important and finest new motion pictures for you to watch at home.

This week, Haunted Mansion, the new supernatural horror comedy starring LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish and primarily based on the Disney theme park trip, comes to streaming on Disney Plus. The Nun II, the sequel to the 2018 supernatural horror thriller starring Taissa Farmiga, is accessible to lease on VOD together with Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 3 starring Denzel Washington. The Boogeyman comes to Hulu, together with a number of different thrilling new releases on Peacock, Prime Video, Netflix, Paramount Plus, and extra.

Here’s all the things new to watch this weekend!

New on Netflix

Fair Play

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix

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Genre: Erotic thriller
Run time: 1h 53m
Director: Chloe Domont
Cast: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan

Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) star on this erotic thriller as two co-workers at an elite hedge fund whose secret engagement is jeopardized when considered one of them is promoted. Is this a ploy by their supervisor (Eddie Marsan) to set them towards each other? Can their relationship face up to the stress?

New on Disney Plus

Haunted Mansion

Where to watch: Available to stream on Disney Plus

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Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 2h 3m
Director: Justin Simien
Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson

After discovering that their new home is haunted by ghosts, a widowed physician and her son enlist assistance from a bunch of paranormal investigators to exorcise the spirits. Things don’t go precisely as deliberate, nevertheless, forcing the workforce to improvise towards an onslaught of ghoulish apparitions.

From our evaluate:

In 2003, Verbinski distanced Pirates of the Caribbean from being a theme park movie. In 2023, Simien and crew experience the truth that Haunted Mansion is one. Simien may’ve merely simply leaned on the theme park of all of it, like 2021’s Jungle Cruise, however he dedicated to getting all of the little particulars on display screen — and he dedicated exhausting. It’s full-throttle indulgence, and a full 180 from the Pirates of the Caribbean tackle theme park motion pictures. Both takes work, although this time round, the area of interest in-jokes won’t hit with everybody. But for the subset it resonates with, Haunted Mansion is a grim, grinning delight.

New on Hulu

The Boogeyman

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Image: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Genre: Supernatural horror
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Rob Savage
Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair

Based on Stephen King’s 1973 brief story of the identical identify, The Boogeyman follows a teenage woman named Sadie (Sophie Thatcher) and her youthful sister, Sawyer (Vivien Lyra Blair), who discover themselves inexplicably stalked by a malevolent otherworldly presence seemingly linked to their deepest and darkest fears.

From our evaluate:

The tailored model of The Boogeyman is stuffed with classically tailor-made scares and creeping temper. Even extra so than Lights Out or James Wan’s Conjuring motion pictures, Savage’s tackle the creature function is buttoned up and typically overextended within the try to preserve the Harper household’s bereavement at the middle of the story. The motion will get a bit repetitive: In the wake of Lester’s loss of life, the movie oscillates between Boogeyman assaults within the more and more acquainted Harper home, and Sadie’s journeys to faculty, the place she’s tormented for being a tragic sack who wears her useless mother’s attire. (Are excessive schoolers the true monsters? Makes you suppose.) Savage is playful about teasing out the darkish corners of the home — whoever invented the cordless mild ball deserves residuals on this movie, given how typically it rolls into the shadows to catch the silhouette of a spindly monster — however finally, the leap scares put on skinny.

Appendage

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

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Genre: Horror
Run time: 1h 34m
Director: Anna Zlokovic
Cast: Emily Hampshire, Hadley Robinson, Deborah Rennard

This horror-thriller stars Hadley Robinson (Little Women) as Hannah, an aspiring designer experiencing important private and skilled stress within the lead-up to a consequential skilled alternative. Her frustrations physicalize as a monstrous development that tackle a life and type of its personal, feeding her darkest impulses till she reaches her breaking level.

New on Prime Video

Totally Killer

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

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Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 46m
Director: Nahnatchka Khan
Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, Charlie Gillespie

Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) stars on this new horror-comedy as Jamie, a teenage woman whose mom is brutally murdered by a mysterious killer often known as the “Sweet 16 Killer” 35 years after their first homicide spree. After unintentionally touring again in time, Jamie should discover a manner to cease the killer earlier than they declare their first sufferer so as to save the previous and her personal current.

New on Peacock

Strays

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock

Photo: Chuck Zlotnick/Universal Pictures

Genre: Comedy
Run time: 1h 33m
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Cast: Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher

Dogs! Who doesn’t love ’em? Those little rascals. Will Ferrell stars on this rated-R comedy as Reggie, a naive however lovable canine who’s deserted on the streets by his negligent proprietor. Befriending a streetwise stray (Jamie Foxx) and his pack of fellow ne’er-do-well mutts, Reggie embarks on a quest to return home and get again at the one who betrayed him. Think Homeward Bound, however with extra revenge and curse phrases.

New on Paramount Plus

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus

Photo: Philippe Bosse/Paramount Plus

Genre: Supernatural horror
Run time: 1h 27m
Director: Lindsey Anderson Beer
Cast: Jackson White, Forrest Goodluck, Jack Mulhern

Another 12 months, one other adaptation of Pet Sematary. Set 50 years earlier than the occasions of the 2019 movie directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines follows a younger Jud Crandall (Jackson White), who uncovers a darkish household secret that forces him to unite along with his mates in a struggle towards an historic evil that haunts the city of Ludlow.

New on Mubi

Passages

Where to watch: Available to stream on Mubi or to lease

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Genre: Romance drama
Run time: 1h 31m
Director: Ira Sachs
Cast: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos

Franz Rogowski (Transit) and Ben Whishaw (Skyfall) star on this romantic drama as Tomas and Martin, a longtime couple whose relationship is thrown into turmoil when considered one of them engages in an affair with Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a major faculty trainer that they meet whereas out clubbing one night time.

New on Starz

The Blackening

Where to watch: Available to stream on Starz

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Genre: Horror comedy
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Tim Story
Cast: Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg

This new horror comedy follows a bunch of Black mates who discover themselves ensnared within the villainous clutches of a homicidal assassin. Forced to play a harmful board sport the place “proving” their Blackness is vital to survival, the buddies should use every ounce of their wits to overcome their captor and make their manner safely to freedom. Remember Scary Movie 2? Yeah, it’s so much like that.

From our evaluate:

Horror followers who’re extra into the style for distinctive gore results, gnarly kills, and different excessive shocks might not spark to The Blackening. The movie may land oddly even with extra mainstream audiences who’re used to larger tensions than this movie brings in, and larger catharsis consequently. But by the ultimate shot, the movie’s strategy feels unusually beneficiant and variety to this goofy ensemble, as if the filmmakers worth the characters, their humanity, and their relationships greater than horror-movie administrators usually do. The Blackening is an odd movie, and typically a really foolish one. But the creators can at least boast that they’ve put one thing on display screen that horror followers don’t see typically, and gained’t expect.

New on Shudder

V/H/S/85

Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder

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Genre: Horror anthology
Run time: 1h 50m
Directors: David Bruckner, Scott Derrickson, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Natasha Kermani, Mike P. Nelson
Cast: Freddy Rodríguez, James Ransone, Jordan Belfi

The newest installment within the long-running horror anthology sequence introduces 5 new unique horror tales framed because the contents of a taped-over made-for-TV documentary. V/H/S/85 options administrators together with Scott Derrickson (The Black Phone), David Bruckner (2022’s Hellraiser), Natasha Kermani (Lucky), and extra.

New on Showtime

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Where to watch: Available to stream on Showtime

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Genre: Legal drama
Run time: 1h 48m
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy

The last movie directed by the late, nice William Friedkin (The Exorcist), this adaptation of Herman Wouk’s 1953 play stars Jason Clarke as a protection lawyer who defends Lt. Stephen Maryk (The White Lotus’ Jake Lacy), an officer being tried for mutiny after relieving his commanding officer (Kiefer Sutherland) of obligation following issues about his psychological stability amid an emergency.

New to lease

The Equalizer 3

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

Photo: Stefano Montesi/Sony Pictures Entertainment

Genre: Action
Run time: 1h 49m
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman

Denzel Washington reprises his position because the surgically exact vigilante Robert McCall within the third installment of the Equalizer sequence. After transferring to Italy, McCall learns that his new mates from a southern Italian city are being terrorized by members of a Mafia group. Bad information for the Mafia: They’re about to get equalized.

The Nun II

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

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 50m
Director: Michael Chaves
Cast: Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid

Four years after the occasions of The Nun, a priest is murdered in a terrifying supernatural incident within the city of Tarascon, France. Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga), now serving in a convent in Italy, known as upon to examine and pressured to as soon as once more confront her unearthly nemesis: the demonic nun often known as Valak.