3 Beloved Movies Streaming on Prime Video This Week (Oct 5-9)
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There’s a new number-one movie on Prime Video this week: Ruben Fleischer’s 2025 heist movie sequel, Now You See Me: Now You Don't. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, and Morgan Freeman, the movie is the third film in the Now You See Me series and follows a trio of young illusionists who are recruited for a high-stakes heist, stealing from the head of a South African diamond company. While it’s pretty standard fare for the franchise, the movie was generally well-received when it came out last year, and it’s once again pulling an audience on streaming. But if that’s not quite what you’re in the mood for this week, there’s still plenty more to explore on the streaming platform. Here’s a look at three great movies that we think you should watch on Prime Video this week.
For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.
1 ‘The Witch’ (2015)
Written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial debut, The Witch is a gothic folk horror film set in 1630s New England, following a Puritan family who move to a remote farm in the forest after being banished from their community. The family turns on each other when their eldest daughter, Thomasin, is suspected of being a witch. The film marks Anya Taylor-Joy’s debut, starring as Thomasin, appearing alongside Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Bathsheba Garnett, and Julian Richings.
The Witch was a great success at the time of its release and remains one of Robert Eggers’ essential films — the movie that established his reputation as a visionary filmmaker of the horror genre. With its grim atmosphere, dark realities of early American settlements, and attention to historical detail, the film is simultaneously intriguing and unsettling. The Witch is widely considered one of the best horror films of the 2010s and has been praised for its visual art, costume, dialogue, and the committed debut film performance by Taylor-Joy.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Child's Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files)
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Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you.
02
You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything.
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Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does.
04
Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight.
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How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking.
06
Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing.
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Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do.
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Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare.
The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what it would leave behind.
Elm Street
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever won that particular argument.
- Freddy is horror's cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
- You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your own head is where this does its damage.
- These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
- You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Chucky
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
- Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
- You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You know that feeling from real life too.
- The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you have met those adults.
- By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Scream
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
- Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be somebody who was at the party.
- You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the same way you watch films.
- The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
- Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
- The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
- Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
- This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
- Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one standing in the hallway.
2 ‘American Fiction’ (2023)
Based on the novel of the same name by Percival Everett, American Fiction is the feature directorial debut of Cord Jefferson and easily one of the best films of the 2020s. Jeffrey Wright stars as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a frustrated African-American professor and novelist who pens a satire of black literature stereotypes that gets mistaken for serious literature, catapulting him to unexpected fame. Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, and John Ortiz also star in notable roles.
American Fiction, just like its fictional story, was a surprise success when it came out in 2023 and ranks among the highest-rated films of that year. The film earned award after award for its sharp humor and grounded character drama, winning Jefferson an Academy Award for the screenplay. Headlined by what is widely considered Wright’s best lead performance ever, which brings the well-written meta-comedy to life, American Fiction is truly among the finest films of the decade and a must-watch.
3 ‘John Wick’ (2014)
Chad Stahelski’s directorial debut, which turned into a massive multimedia franchise over the past decade, John Wick is the first installment of the slick action film series centered on the titular retired assassin, now a pop culture icon. After a gangster breaks into his home, kills his dog, and steals his vintage car, John Wick gives up his peaceful retired life and reawakens the violent killer inside him to seek revenge for his loss. Keanu Reeves stars as the titular hitman, with Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe in supporting roles.
The Matrix films may have made Keanu Reeves an action star, but John Wick marked a major new chapter for his acting career, completely revitalizing his status as an iconic action legend. The high-octane action choreography, combining high-intensity stunts, tactical shooting, gun-fu, and jiu-jitsu, shares some DNA with the Matrix films, but the later movie is more grounded in its execution, with excellent wide-angle shots and long takes that make the action scenes absolutely rewatchable. An action movie that paved the way for a new kind of action movie, John Wick is a modern classic.
John Wick
7 10
- Release Date
- October 24, 2014
- Runtime
- 101 minutes
- Director
- Chad Stahelski
- Writers
- Derek Kolstad
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