It’s February, and with it comes a new monthly tradition for the vast majority of us: finding out what’s new to watch on the plethora of streaming services available. Without further ado, here’s what’s waiting for you to fill up your watchlists this month. Happy binging!
Sundance Now
Always Shine
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After a successful run on the festival circuit, Always Shine is coming to Sundance Now on February 2nd. This tense, unnerving story of two actresses trying to make it big in movies. During their weekend getaway to Big Sur, some deep-seated resentments between the two begin to surface, and before long things get a little out-of-hand.
Netflix
Sausage Party
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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s CG-grossout spectacular about the lives of food products living on grocery store shelves first premiered as an incomplete cut during SXSW last year. With voice work by Rogen, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek and Craig Robinson, Sausage Party is ambitious, delightfully macabre, and laugh-out-loud twisted, complete with one of the most elaborately shocking final sequences in recent memory. The next time you’re feeling overwhelmed, simply tune out the world and turn on Sausage Party while you alternately laugh and cringe your worries away.
Hulu
The Running Man
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Okay, so if Sausage Party is perfect escapism, than 1987’s The Running Man is going to be your eerily prescient sci-fi dystopia. Based on the Stephen King novel, this sci-fi thriller about an celebrity-obsessed president who forces an everyman (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to participate in an over-the-top game show to try and regain his freedom. It’s also set in *ahem* 2017. Just think, Schwarzenegger battling demented game-show host-turned-President was once a premise like that could only be found in the genre of low-rent sci-fi.
Amazon
10 Cloverfield Lane
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While 2008’s Cloverfield tried (and mostly failed) to retrofit the kaiju movie into the found-footage genre, last years follow-up, 10 Cloverfield Lane, tells a much different story. After a car accident, a young woman played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead finds herself captive in a bomb shelter under the rule of a burly, no-nonesense survivalist played by John Goodman. Stylistically it’s as far away from its predecessor as possible, instead presenting an increasingly unnerving story about monsters in all forms.
Starz
The Missing
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While the series’ second season won’t premiere in full until the 12th, but Starz is releasing the premiere episode on February 6th. This anthology tale starring The Walking Dead’s David Morrissey. The first season went over huge in the U.K., but wasn’t exactly a huge hit in the U.S. This upcoming season will give audiences another crack at it — and given it’s told as a limited series anthology (a format that’s increasingly popular stateside), there’s a solid chance this could hook in a whole new demographic of viewers.
Student Bodies
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Years before Scream and Scary Movie sent up the slasher movie genre, Student Bodies was on the frontline to satire the then-brand new horror archetypes as they were being written. A must-watch for any self-avowed horror fan.
Seeso
My Brother, My Brother, And Me
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Based on the long-running podcast, where brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy answer questions from listeners (or the cesspool that is the Ask Yahoo! message boards), the TV series premieres on the comedy-centric service Seeso on February 23rd. At long last, fans get to watch the brothers give terrible advice, this time spilling out into adventures in their hometown of Huntington, West Virginia.
HBO Now
Crimson Peak
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Gothic horror auteur Guillermo Del Toro hits his creative peak with this lavish love story set inside a decrepit castle deep in the woods of England. A lush, lavish, and terrifying story of secrets, betrayal, and unending love — complete with some utterly exacting detail work throughout.
