Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The King’s Man, and every new movie you can watch from home this week
This weekend sees the release of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the ninth installment in the long-running horror series co-written and produced by Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez, that sees the homicidal Leatherface turn his chainsaw against business-savvy Zoomers attempting to gentrify his quaint little Texan hometown. If 80-plus minutes of that sounds like too much to suffer through, don’t worry — there’s plenty of options to choose from when it comes to new movies available to stream and rent on VOD.
We’ve got The King’s Man, the latest installment in Matthew Vaughn’s spy-action comedy series, available to stream on Hulu; the Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson romantic comedy Marry Me on Peacock; Julia Ducournau’s psychosexual body horror family drama Titane on Hulu; the martial arts action film Fistful of Vengeance on Netflix; Chloé Zhao’s Eternals on VOD, plus tons of other fantastic films to rent.
To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the new movies you can watch on streaming and VOD this weekend.
Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix
The ninth installment of the legendary slasher franchise, 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre sees Leatherface return after decades of hiding. A group of young entrepreneurs (including Eighth Grade’s Elsie Fisher) arrive in Harlow, Texas and plan to transform it by gentrifying it, much to the consternation of Old Leatherface, who starts another murder spree. Produced by Evil Dead (2013) and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez (who also co-wrote the story), the new TCM is a lean 81 minutes and was filmed in Bulgaria (but don’t call it Bulgaria Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface doesn’t like it). From our review,
A lot about this Chainsaw is under-realized and messy —
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