Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and a new Batman are finally streaming this weekend

Rent a fantasy romance or stream a black comedy from Yorgos Lanthimos

It’s a big week on streaming for heroes around the world. Batman finds himself in the center of a war in Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires, which places the Dark Knight in 16th century Mesoamerica. The film is available on HBO Max along with Ne Zha 2, the biggest animated hit of all time, which continues the story of the Chinese folk hero as he defies his dark destiny to make his parents proud.

100 Nights of Hero, an adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 queer fantasy graphic novel, is ready to seduce you on VOD. For something totally different, you can order pizza and rent the horror video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.

Here's a rundown of the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, including the biggest, best, and most popular new movies you can watch at home right now.

New on Netflix

Eden

• Genre: Survival thriller
• Run time: 2h 9m
• Director: Ron Howard
• Cast: Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby

Based on a true story, Eden follows a group of Europeans who try to settle the isle of Floreana in the Galapagos Islands in the leadup to World War II. As personalities clash and the unprepared face the harsh reality of life on the island, the search for paradise turns into a fight for survival.

New on HBO Max

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires

• Genre: Superhero
• Run time: 1h 29m
• Director: Juan Meza-León
• Cast: Horacio García Rojas, Omar Chaparro, Álvaro Morte

The reimagining of Batman’s origin story follows a young Aztec noble (Horacio Garcia Rojas) who swears vengeance against Hernan Cortes (Alvaro Morte) after the conquistador kills his father and slaughters his village. Taking on the mantle of the bat god Tzinacan, Batman rallies his people to stop the conquest of Tenochtitlán.

From our review:

DC’s other time-hopping Batman films are all self-contained, but Aztec Batman focuses on laying groundwork for a sequel and never really delivers a compelling narrative of its own. None of Aztec Batman’s characters have much personality or character development. Forest Ivy (Maya Zapata) looks gorgeous in her crown of maize when an injured Yohualli encounters her in a psychedelic sequence, but she just serves as a sort of generic forest spirit guiding the hero along his destined path. The historical conquistador Pedro de Alvarado (Jose C. Illanes Puentes) doesn’t do much as Cortes’ bloodthirsty lieutenant. Stylish character design and sultry voice acting from Ruiz at least helps Jaguar Woman feel more like her DC counterpart than anyone else in the cast. Cortes’ descent into madness as he begins to view his hand as guided by fate is a clever way of fusing the historical character to Two Face, but he just becomes a caricature of greed as he seeks to plunder Tenochtitlán.

Ne Zha 2

• Genre: Fantasy adventure
• Run time: 2h 24m
• Director: Yu Yang
• Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Crystal Lee, Griffin Puatu

The highest-grossing animated film ever, Ne Zha 2 proved so popular in China that A24 made an English dub to bring the spectacle to the U.S. The mythical story about a child defying his destiny combines epic fight sequences, low-brow gross-out humor, and emotional storytelling about the fear of loss and disappointment.

From our review:

There are many, many different threads at play in this sequel; while it’s more narratively sophisticated and visually ambitious than Ne Zha (which already had plenty of both those elements), it’s still worth starting with the previous film. Ne Zha offers a lot of necessary background to understand how its two central embodied artifacts relate to each other, to the dragons chained deep under the Earth, and to the godlike powers that confine those dragons. It’s also a route to understanding Shen Gongbao, who spends the movie veering between Disney-esque cartoon villain, respectful and righteous servant, the butt of comedy slapstick, and dutiful family man.

New on Hulu

The Life of Chuck

• Genre: Fantasy drama
• Run time: 1h 51m
• Director: Mike Flanagan
• Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan

Mike Flanagan writes and directs this adaptation of Stephen King’s novella, where the end of the world is tied to the death of a 39-year-old accountant Chuck (Tom Hiddleston). The film moves backwards in time for a sweet story about living life to its fullest. The movie is packed with star power, with Mark Hamill playing Chuck’s grandfather and Nick Offerman serving as narrator.

Strange Harvest

• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 34m
• Director: Stuart Ortiz
• Cast: Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andy Lauer

Framed as a true crime documentary about a serial killer dubbed “Mr. Shiny” committing ritualistic murders in Southern California, Strange Harvest uses cobbled together footage to track his crimes ranging from surveillance cameras to a violently interrupted makeup tutorial. Strange Harvest follows a pair of detectives who seek to find the killer while puzzling out the possibly cosmic implications of his crimes.

New on MGM Plus

Afterburn

• Genre: Post-apocalyptic action
• Run time: 1h 46m
• Director: J. J. Perry
• Cast: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

Earth has descended into chaos after a massive solar flare wiped out technology across the planet. The self-appointed King of England (Samuel L. Jackson) enlists the help of Jake (Dave Bautista) to gather humanity’s greatest treasures as he attempts to reestablish order. But recovering the Mona Lisa in France proves to be a very dangerous task.

New on MUBI

Die My Love

• Genre: Psychological drama
• Run time: 1h 59m
• Director: Lynne Ramsay
• Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield

Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) move from New York to Montana before having their first child, and Grace begins having mood swings, engaging in self harm, and lashing out at Jackson. Lawrence delivers an intense performance in her portrayal of postpartum psychosis.

New on Peacock

Bugonia

• Genre: Black comedy
• Run time: 1h 58m
• Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
• Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis

An English language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! from Poor Things and The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia follows conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) who becomes convinced that pharmaceutical CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone) is actually an alien trying to wipe out humanity.

New on Shudder

The Jester 2

• Genre: Horror
• Run time: 1h 27m
• Director: Colin Krawchuk
• Cast: Michael Sheffield, Kaitlyn Trentham, Jessica Ambuehl

Teen magician Max (Kaitlyn Trentham) doesn’t have anyone to hang out with on Halloween, but she gets a far more exciting night out than she wanted when a sinister supernatural killer known as the Jester forces her to play a deadline game. She’ll need to escape his dangerous illusions to survive the night.

New to rent

100 Nights of Hero

• Genre: Fantasy romance
• Run time: 1h 30m
• Director: Julia Jackman
• Cast: Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe

The adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel follows Cherry (Maika Monroe), a lady whose husband decides to test her fidelity by leaving her alone for 100 days. In his absence, she starts a slow-burn romance with her storytelling maid Hero (Emma Corrin). The real stars of the fantasy film are the gorgeous costumes.

Eternity

• Genre: Fantasy romantic comedy
• Run time: 1h 54m
• Director: David Freyne
• Cast: Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner

After dying in her 90s, Joan (WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen) is given a week to choose to spend eternity with her husband of 65 years Larry (Miles Teller) or her first husband, Luke (Callum Turner), who died in the Korean war. She also has to pick a theme for her afterlife in this tongue-in-cheek film inspired by weird science.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

• Genre: Supernatural horror
• Run time: 1h 44m
• Director: Emma Tammi
• Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio

The video game adaptation focused on a pizza chain with animatronics possessed by a serial killer’s victims introduces a new nightmare in the Marionette, who wants to leave the restaurant behind. The puppet is helped by Abby (Piper Rubio), a traumatized young girl who thinks the murderous robots are her friends.

From our review:

Between the confusing plot elements, the middling horror, and the dodgy acting, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a step backward from the first movie. It’s a disappointment: While there are moments in the movie that fans may enjoy, and plenty of robots causing chaos, the story is a mess if you don't already know the ins and outs of the series. The first Five Nights at Freddy's movie felt like it was inviting all of us into its world. This one, on the other hand, could leave everyone but the franchise’s biggest diehards feeling like outsiders, simply trying to keep up.