Digital Multiplex: Monsters University, The Conjuring, and More
The newest and best movies available for streaming and download.
This week in streaming video, we’ve got a Pixar follow-up to one of their most beloved animated features, one of the most popular horror flicks in recent memory, a solid found footage sci-fi movie, and a home invasion thriller. On top of that, we’ve got a slew of older favorites newly available. Read on to find out what’s available to watch right now.
Monsters University
80%
This prequel to Monsters Inc. shows how diminutive, one-eyed Mike (Billy Crystal) and imposing, blue-furred Sulley (John Goodman) became friends while studying how to frighten children in college.
The Conjuring
86%
Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga) are paranormal detectives who are summoned by the Perron family to investigate mysterious goings on in their new home; as the Warrens dig deeper, they come face to face with a terrifying presence intent on pure destruction.
Europa Report
81%
This found-footage thriller about a group of astronauts in search of life on one of Jupiter’s moons emphasizes the science end of the sci-fi equation, and the result earned a Certified Fresh rating from the critics.
The Purge
41%
Set in a dystopian future America in which the government allows an annual 12-hour period of complete lawlessness, The Purge stars Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey as a suburban couple who must decide whether to help a desperate intruder who’s on the run from a heavily armed mob.
The Devil’s Backbone
93%
Guillermo del Toro’s psychological horror film is both a potent ghost story and an intelligent political allegory, and it helped to solidify the Mexican director’s status as one of contemporary cinema’s most imginative stylists.
Available now on: Crackle
The Big Easy
89%
Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, and Ned Beatty star in Jim McBride’s N’awlins-set thriller about a cop and and a district attorney who fall in love while investigating a series of gang murders.
Available now on: Crackle
Evil Dead 2
81%
Sam Raimi’s grisly, gory, goofy blend of ultraviolence and slapstick practically defines the term “cult classic,” and Bruce Campbell’s lively central performance solidified his status as one of 1980s horror’s ultimate antiheroes.
Available now on: Crackle
Night of the Living Dead
57%
The 1990 remake of George A. Romero’s zombie classic is better than most of its ilk, and stars horror movie regulars Tony Todd and Tom Towles.
Available now on: Crackle
Forrest Gump
75%
Robert Zemeckis’ decade-spanning drama cleaned up at the box office, won six Academy Awards, wowed the masses with its technical wizardry, and solidified Tom Hanks’ status as one of his generation’s biggest stars. If you haven’t seen it, you probably should.
Available now on: Netflix
Ghostbusters
95%
If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? How about Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Rick Moranis? After all, they’re the stars of Ghostbusters, arguably the most iconic horror comedy of the last three decades.
Available now on: Netflix
The Italian Job
72%
Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Seth Green, and Mos Def star in this high-tech remake of the swingin’ 1969 heist caper.
Available now on: Netflix
