{"id":641816,"date":"2026-05-01T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641816\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:25:10","slug":"chainsaw-man-hoppers-and-every-new-movie-on-netflix-hbo-and-more-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641816\/","title":{"rendered":"Chainsaw Man, Hoppers, and every new movie on Netflix, HBO, and more this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two hit animated films are available to stream this weekend. Chainsaw Man \u2013 The Movie: Rez Arc<\/a> cuts a path onto Crunchyroll, providing an accessible entry point for anyone curious about the hit anime. Hoppers, Pixar\u2019s spin on Avatar<\/a>, is one of the biggest box-office successes of 2026. You can now rent it to rewatch the animal antics and look for Easter eggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Exit 8<\/a> is even scarier than the video game it\u2019s based on, following a man tormented by his indecision, who is trapped in an endless subway corridor. You can find your way to the film on VOD. You can also rent Forbidden Fruits<\/a>, a witch horror comedy for Mean Girls fans.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

New on Netflix<\/p>\n

Swapped<\/p>\n

Genre: Animated fantasy comedy<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 42m<\/p>\n

Director: Nathan Greno<\/p>\n

Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan<\/p>\n

The creatures in the magical world of The Valley do not get along. A fight between a bird (Juno Temple) and a small mammal (Michael B. Jordan) leads to them tumbling into a glowing seedpod, which swaps their bodies. As they search for another plant that can change them back, the two discover they\u2019re stronger together.<\/p>\n

New on Crunchyroll<\/p>\n

Chainsaw Man Movie \u2013 Reze Arc<\/p>\n

Genre: Anime<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 40m<\/p>\n

Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara<\/p>\n

Cast: Kikunosuke Toya, Reina Ueda, Fairouz Ai<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to have watched the Chainsaw Man<\/a> anime to dive into its bizarre world of devils and hunters in Chainsaw Man Movie – Reze Arc. The film follows the chainsaw-human hybrid Denji as he falls for Reze, a barista with a deadly secret. The teen love story is complemented by beautiful animation and bombastic action.<\/p>\n

From our review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Reze Arc is inherently a lovers-to-enemies story, with our fallible protagonist Denji falling for Reze almost immediately upon introduction. He\u2019s a lonely boy looking for love, which makes his heart unreliable and up for grabs on a first-come, first-served basis. As a result, despite all of Chainsaw Man\u2019s complex lore and its large cast of characters, Reze Arc is very self-contained. Director Tatsuya Yoshihara understands this and ensures the love story is at the forefront, rather than bogging it down with filler recaps for the uninitiated, especially when none of that really matters to the overall plot.<\/p>\n

New on HBO Max<\/p>\n

Wuthering Heights<\/p>\n

Genre: Romantic period drama<\/p>\n

Run time: 2h 16m<\/p>\n

Director: Emerald Fennell<\/p>\n

Cast: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif<\/p>\n

The loose adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s novel follows the romance between Cathy (Margot Robbie) and her childhood friend Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi). Cathy marries her wealthy neighbor Edgar (Shazad Latif) even though she loves Heathcliff, who disappears and returns years later, having mysteriously become wealthy himself.<\/p>\n

New on Hulu<\/p>\n

Hallow Road<\/p>\n

Genre: Psychological thriller<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 20m<\/p>\n

Director: Babak Anvari<\/p>\n

Cast: Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys, Megan McDonnell<\/p>\n

Maddie (Rosamund Pike) and Frank (Matthew Rhys) are woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from their 18-year-old daughter Alice (Megan McDonnell), who has hit someone with her car while driving down a remote road. As the parents race to help her, they pivot from trying to save the victim to protecting their child.<\/p>\n

New on Screambox<\/p>\n

Silent Night, Deadly Night<\/p>\n

Genre: Slasher<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 36m<\/p>\n

Director: Mike P. Nelson<\/p>\n

Cast: Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, David Lawrence Brown<\/p>\n

Mike P. Nelson\u2019s remake of the 1984 holiday slasher follows Billy (Rohan Campbell), a serial killer who dresses as Santa to slay people who are \u201cnaughty\u201d to protect those who are \u201cnice.\u201d His annual murder spree \u2014 timed to the Advent calendar \u2014 leads him to a Nazi Christmas party where he unleashes some festive carnage.<\/p>\n

From our review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Silent Night, Deadly Night takes the material seriously without any suffocating fealty to its low-rent aesthetics. It also defines itself mostly on those terms \u2014 as a corrective that views its killer with maximum sympathy, rather than the exploitative cruelty that defines the original. Non-fans of that one, like me, will probably have a good time. But anyone heading to the new horror movie from Cineverse, distributors of the Christmas-horror gnarliness of Terrifier 3, hoping for some throwback controversy will find a movie that errs on the side of nice, rather than naughty.<\/p>\n

New to rent<\/p>\n

Didn\u2019t Die<\/p>\n

Genre: Horror comedy<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 29m<\/p>\n

Director: Meera Menon<\/p>\n

Cast: Kiran Deol, Vishal Vijayakumar, Samrat Chakrabarti<\/p>\n

Vinita (Kiran Deol) runs a podcast for fellow survivors of the zombie apocalypse. The black-and-white film mostly focuses on the mundanity of their lives as they meet for support groups, complain about physical fitness, and worry about the possibility of the \u201cbiter\u201d threat escalating as the undead start appearing during the day.<\/p>\n

Exit 8<\/p>\n

Genre: Psychological horror<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 35m<\/p>\n

Director: Genki Kawamura<\/p>\n

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma<\/p>\n

The adaptation of a 2023 indie video game<\/a> of the same name follows a lost man (Kazunari Ninomiya) trapped in an infinite subway corridor. He has to search the hallways for any signs of anomalies in order to escape. He\u2019s also caught in emotional limbo after receiving a call from his pregnant ex asking if he\u2019s ready to be a father.<\/p>\n

From our review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Exit 8 the movie isn’t necessarily as scary as Exit 8 the game, but the ways Kawamura uses that creepy white corridor to tell a much more personal story make this a worthy adaptation. It\u2019s fascinating to see how the game’s digital corridors take material form in the movie, but with a completely different meaning. Instead of simply being an eerie place where bizarre events take place, they become the manifestation of a visceral uncertainty so many of us deal with in our own lives.<\/p>\n

Forbidden Fruits<\/p>\n

Genre: Horror comedy<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 43m<\/p>\n

Director: Meredith Alloway<\/p>\n

Cast: Victoria Pedretti, Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung<\/p>\n

Apple (Lili Reinhart) has established a coven with her fellow employees at the high-end clothing store Free Eden, holding rituals in the mall after hours that are meant to boost feminine power. When Apple decides new food court employee Pumpkin (Lola Tung) should join the group, it sets up a bloody and paranoid power struggle.<\/p>\n

From our review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While Mean Girls lightened up the pitch-black comedy of its ancestor Heathers with a lower body count and more sociological wit, Forbidden Fruits eventually moves in the opposite direction, closer to the fatal mishaps of Heathers or The Craft. These witches don\u2019t need genuine supernatural powers to engage in power struggles. Their interpersonal clashes, especially between Apple and Pumpkin, lead to some nasty surprises. Though their conflicts eventually lead to horror-movie violence, the cruelest fate, the movie implies, may be a professional life consigned to malls, overpriced novelty coffee drinks, and other commercial\/cultural remnants of a millennial youth.<\/p>\n

Hoppers<\/p>\n

Genre: Animated science fiction comedy<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 44m<\/p>\n

Director: Daniel Chong<\/p>\n

Cast: Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm<\/p>\n

Fierce college student and nature lover Mabel (Piper Curda) steals experimental technology that allows her to place her mind in the body of a robotic beaver in a desperate attempt to stop the mayor (Jon Hamm) from destroying a glade she loves. She gets the local wildlife to join her cause, but winds up facing problems from some overzealous animals.<\/p>\n

From our review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Pixar\u2019s animation continues to be top-notch. The other animal monarchs answering George\u2019s call are introduced with ridiculous, showy fanfare reminiscent of the opening of The Lion King or King Triton\u2019s court in The Little Mermaid. The chase scenes offer some goofy fun, even if they don\u2019t have the rich background details found in Zootopia 2. An encroaching forest fire is both beautiful and terrifying. But that artistry isn\u2019t enough to rescue an incoherent plot.<\/p>\n

The Step Daddy<\/p>\n

Genre: Thriller<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 37m<\/p>\n

Director: Thomas J. Churchill<\/p>\n

Cast: Ptosha Storey, Vincent M. Ward, Lew Temple<\/p>\n

Rochelle (Ptosha Storey) is thrilled when her boyfriend Patrick (Vincent M. Ward) proposes, despite her mother\u2019s misgivings that she doesn\u2019t really know much about her new partner. Rochelle soon discovers a very different side of Patrick, who turns out to be a serial killer on the search for new victims.<\/p>\n

They Will Kill You<\/p>\n

Genre: Horror comedy<\/p>\n

Run time: 1h 34m<\/p>\n

Director: Kirill Sokolov<\/p>\n

Cast: Zazie Beetz, Myha’la, Paterson Joseph<\/p>\n

Former convict Asia (Zazie Beetz) takes a job as a maid at The Virgil, a luxurious New York high-rise. Part of the cost of living there is making human sacrifices, and she\u2019s meant to be the residents’ latest victim. Asia\u2019s prepared to fight back against the demonic cult and escape the building\u2019s deadly traps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two hit animated films are available to stream this weekend. Chainsaw Man \u2013 The Movie: Rez Arc cuts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-641816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}