6 Of The Best New Movies On HBO Max From Must-See Drama To Horror Flicks
Your food is ready, you’re bundled up in a blanket burrito, and then the dread sets in — you need to find something to watch.
Fast-forward half an hour and you’ve scrolled, cried a little, and finally settled on the same comfort watch you’ve been cycling through for the past four months. Your burger? Cold. Chips? Soggy. Soul? Mildly traumatised at best.
Lucky for you, that cycle ends now, with HBO Max finally available to stream in Australia. With shows and movies like The Last Of Us, The White Lotus, and so many box office hit movies — there’s no filler, but it’s pretty damn killer.
If you’ve missed any of the biggest, buzziest thriller and horror films over the past few months, now’s your chance to go all in.
1. Sinners
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is being rightly lauded as one of the best films of the year, so if you didn’t catch it in cinemas, now’s your chance.
Twin brothers, Stack and Smoke (both played by Michael B. Jordan), try to escape their troubled lives by going back to their hometown, only to discover a supernatural evil is waiting for them.
Set in the Deep South, Sinners is a southern gothic vampire tale with a musical edge (trust me on this one) that’ll have you on the edge of your seat right up until the end.
2. Companion
Get ready to say please and thank you to ChatGPT after watching this horror flick.
In this delicious twist of a romantic thriller, Sophie Thatcher stars as a ‘companion bot’ who turns against her owner, Jack Quaid.
“There have been two moments in my life when I was happiest,” Turner’s Iris says in the trailer. “The first, was the day I met Josh [Quaid]. And the second, was the day I killed him.”
It’s a twisty, edge-of-your-seat film that questions everything you know about AI and humanity. If you’re a fan of Westworld or Black Mirror, this one’s mandatory viewing.
3. Mountainhead
Mountainhead, from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, takes the terrifying existential threat of AI and asks: what if we made a movie about everything that could go wrong?
It follows four tech bro billionaires — played by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Yousseff — over their annual catchup at Schwartzman’s luxurious mountain retreat.
It’s a brief respite from global chaos, as one of their new ultra-realistic AI models fuels democratic instability and rioting. The four billionaires and frenemies, however, are more interested in comparing their wealth and scheming for power.
Armstrong’s skewering and reflection of the ultra elite in Succession takes new turns in Mountainhead; at times you forget if you’re watching four actors or Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel duke it out.
4. Trap
Acclaimed director M. Night Shyamalan is known for his twists, so when the trailer reveals a major one, you know there’s so much more to come.
In Trap, Josh Hartnett plays the doting dad taking his tween daughter to a concert. He realises something is amiss when he realises police are blocking every exit, and discovers police have laid a trap for a local serial killer they’ve learned will also be at the concert. And as it turns out, Hartnett is that serial killer.
Trap takes its inspirations from a real life 1985 sting operation in the United States, where 101 fugitives were arrested after responding to a fake invitation to Redskins vs Bengals game. Law enforcement officers played ushers, cheerleaders, emcees, mascots, maintenance staff and caterers on ground, and it’s considered one of the most successful mass arrests in US history.
As for whether Trap will have the same level of success — you’ll just have to watch and find out.
5. Twisters
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell star in this decades-later sequel to the 1996 disaster film. She’s the former storm chaser-turned-meteorologist after a deadly storm takes away her nerve, and he’s the YouTube star who turns tornadoes into viral content.
They get thrown together (almost literally) chasing mega-storms in Oklahoma, and realise that neither is exactly who the other thought. Let’s just say you’ll be holding your breath with this one.
If you like disaster films and a banger of a soundtrack (hello, Luke Combs), this one’s for you.
6. Final Destination: Bloodlines
Iconic horror franchise Final Destination returned this year with Bloodlines, a new reimagining of the franchise (and hopefully the start of many to come).
Final Destination: Bloodlines follows college student Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), who inherits premonitions of a violent and bloody skyscraper incident her grandmother was able to avert. Death, her grandmother warns her, is also coming for Stefani… and her entire family.
What follows is Stefani’s desperate attempt to save her family members from Death, and if you’re a fan of the previous films, you’ll probably already know it does not go to plan. Final Destination is known for some of the most gruesome and creative on-screen deaths of all time, and Bloodlines is no exception.
If these films don’t tickle your fancy and you want to keep it a little lighter, HBO Max still has you covered, with box-office gold like The Minecraft Movie, Barbie, Dune: Part Two, and Wonka.
Get HBO Max’s killer content (with no filler) from just $10 per month* here.
Happy streaming!
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