Last weekend, Tom Holland‘s return as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Daybroke the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend in cinema history. In total, the film made just shy of $1 billion in just a few days, the sort of total that most blockbusters can only dream of achieving. Alongside Christopher Nolan‘s historical epic The Odyssey, which also starred Holland, Zendaya, and Jon Bernthal, the two recorded the biggest weekend haul in cinema history. With last weekend proving popular in theaters, why not let yourself indulge in some movie treats from the comfort of your own couch this weekend? With that in mind, here’s a list of three movies you should stream on Netflix.
Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.
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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 17% | IMDb: 5.1/10
With every new month comes a wave of fresh options hitting the Netflix library. At the start of August, horror fans were delivered a treat in the form of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, a sequel to Blumhouse’s 2023 effort Five Nights at Freddy’s. Once again based on the lore-filled viral horror games by Scott Cawthon, this sequel follows Abby (Piper Rubio), a year on from the events at Freddy Fazbear’s, as she uncovers dark secrets behind Freddy’s origins.
Josh Hutcherson returns as Mike in this fan-favorite sequel, which fought back from critical backlash to score a huge haul at the box office. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a simple, fright-a-minute horror flick with plenty to keep you hooked, which features a strong supporting cast including Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Mckenna Grace, Elizabeth Lail, and Wayne Knight.
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
03
What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
04
What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
05
You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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‘Minions’ (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes: 55% | IMDb: 6.4/10
If you’re looking to entertain the whole family this weekend, then perhaps steering away from the horror genre and into the ever-vibrant world of animated agents of chaos with the Minions is your best bet. In 2015’s Minions, a prequel to 2010’s Despicable Me, nonsense-talking mischief-makers Stuart, Kevin, and Bob are recruited by supervillain Scarlet Overkill, who, of course, has a plan to take over the world.
Minions & Monsters, the seventh entry in the Despicable Me franchise, is still in theaters right now, having earned almost $450 million. With that in mind, there’s never been a better time to head back to one of the best entries in the franchise so far, with this laugh-a-minute reminder of just how great a cinematic creation the Minions are. Minions is just 91 minutes long, making for easy, quick viewing this weekend.
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‘In the Land of Saints and Sinners’ (2024)
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% | IMDb: 6.4/10
Who doesn’t love a neo-Western actioner to add a shot of adrenaline to their weekend? One of the most underrated of this genre in the last few years is In the Land of Saints and Sinners, which was recently added to the Netflix catalog on August 6. The movie stars Hollywood legend Liam Neeson as a retired hitman who is coaxed out of retirement when a dangerous criminal arrives in his quaint village.
Directed by Robert Lorenz and based on a screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane, don’t let this Irish action thriller fool you into thinking it’s a simple all-guns-blazing affair — there’s just as much detailed drama in this clever feature as there is gritty action. Neeson is great in this pulse-racing, intelligent film, which also stars Star Wars: Skeleton Crew‘s Kerry Condon, Ciarán Hinds, and Desmond Eastwood.
Release Date
March 29, 2024
Runtime
106 minutes
Director
Robert Lorenz
Writers
Terry Loane, Mark Michael McNally
Producers
Bonnie Timmermann, Geraldine Hughes, Philip Lee, Terry Loane, Markus Barmettler, Hubert Toint
