Heretic, Heart Eyes, and all the latest films now available for streaming this week

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.

This week, Heretic, the new horror thriller from A Quiet Place writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and starring Hugh Grant (Love Actually) and Sophie Thatcher (Companion), arrives on Max following its theatrical premiere in November 2024. There’s plenty of other exciting releases to choose from this week, like the rom-com horror thriller Heart Eyes on VOD, the horror comedy Rumours on Paramount Plus, and the folk horror film Starve Acre starring Matt Smith (Doctor Who) on Shudder. What can I say, it’s an abnormally spooky week!

Here’s everything new that’s available to watch this weekend!

Where to watch: Available to stream on Hulu

Genre: Superhero (dark)
Run time: 1h 39m
Director: Brian Taylor
Cast: Jack Kesy, Jefferson White, Adeline Rudolph

This stand-alone adaptation of Mike Mignola’s acclaimed Hellboy comics stars Jack Kesy as the eponymous paranormal investigator/monster fighter as he faces off against a terrifying new threat. The film follows Hellboy and his colleague Bobbie Jo Song (Adeline Rudolph) as they fight against the Crooked Man, a malevolent agent of the devil hell-bent on wreaking chaos on Earth.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man has lots of piecemeal problems, but there’s a bigger conceptual mistake here that should serve as a warning to anyone trying to reboot​​ Mike Mignola’s comic as a film franchise for a fourth time. Filmmakers need to stop trying to directly adapt Hellboy stories into feature-length movies constructed around visual realism. It does the character — indeed, the entire concept — a disservice.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max

Genre: Horror thriller
Run time: 1h 51m
Directors: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Cast: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Two Mormon missionaries walk into a man’s house right before a snowstorm. After realizing they’ve been trapped, the missionaries are forced to participate in a twisted game for survival or be executed. No, you’ve never heard that one before? Well then, you gotta watch this — it’s wild!

Where to watch: Available to stream on Prime Video

Genre: Romantic comedy
Run time: 1h 41m
Director: Prarthana Mohan
Cast: Simone Ashley, Anoushka Chadha, Hero Fiennes Tiffin

Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley leads this romantic comedy as a single woman who reluctantly agrees to be set up on five different blind dates by her friends and family in order to find someone to take to her sister’s wedding. While she goes on this reality TV show-esque escapade, she also reconnects with a handsome ex-boyfriend. This movie is a remake of another Prime Video movie that didn’t even come out that long ago, with almost the same exact concept except with an Australian Chinese woman instead of an English Indian one.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Paramount Plus

Genre: Comedy horror
Run time: 1h 44m
Directors: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Denis Ménochet

A group of (fictional) world leaders, like the chancellor of Germany, the president of the United States, and the prime minister of the United Kingdom, gather at a summit… only to get lost in zombie-infested woods. And hunted by a giant brain. Talk about a bad time only getting worse. The horror comedy stars Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance and first premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

Where to watch: Available to stream on Shudder

Genre: Horror fantasy
Run time: 1h 38m
Director: Daniel Kokotajlo
Cast: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Arthur Shaw

Matt Smith stars in this folk horror fantasy as Richard, an archaeologist and a father living on an ancestral plot of land with his wife, Juliette (Morfydd Clark). When their son, Owen (Arthur Shaw), begins to act erratically, Richard finds himself delving deeper into the mythic folklore associated with an ancient oak tree on his property, which inadvertently awakens ancient evil that sweeps across the land.

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

Genre: Rom-com slasher
Run time: 1h 37m
Director: Josh Ruben
Cast: Mason Gooding, Olivia Holt, Gigi Zumbado

Fans of Happy Death Day and holiday-themed horror movies will get a kick out of Werewolves Within director Josh Ruben’s latest slasher. After being mistaken for a couple, co-workers Ally (Olivia Holt) and Jay (Mason Gooding) must work together to escape Heart Eyes, a sadistic serial killer whose modus operandi is targeting happy couples. And on Valentine’s Day, no less!

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

Genre: Historical drama
Run time: 1h 59m
Director: Maura Delpero
Cast: Tommaso Ragno, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi

This Italian film follows one year in the lives of a family living in a remote mountain village in the Italian Alps. It’s 1944, and the local teacher’s family takes in an army deserter. When that deserter falls in love with the teacher’s daughter, the lives of everyone in the village are upended. Vermiglio won the Grand Jury Prize at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.