Netflix today unveiled its current line-up of movies being released in 2021. This year’s slate is so huge that the streaming service will be releasing new films every week of 2021, including several great genre titles to be excited about.
Army of the Dead
Zack Snyder’s zombie action flick Army of the Dead follows a group of mercenaries as they take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone in Las Vegas following a zombie outbreak to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.
Blood Red Sky
A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempts to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. To protect her son, she will have to reveal a dark secret and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.
Fear Street Trilogy
Adapted from R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, Netflix will release three Fear Street films, Fear Street: 1994, Fear Street: 1978, and Fear Street: 1666. In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected — and that they may be the next targets. The trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.
No One Gets Out Alive
Based on the novel by Adam Nevill and directed by Santiago Menghini, No One Gets Out Alive tells the story of Ambar, an immigrant in search of the American Dream, but when she’s forced to take a room in a boarding house, she finds herself in a nightmare she can’t escape.
There’s Someone Inside Your House
Makani Young has moved from Hawaii to quite, small-town Nebraska to live with her grandmother and finish high school, but as the countdown to graduation begins, her classmates are stalked by a killer intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mas of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer’s identity before they become victims themselves. There’s Someone Inside Your House is based on Stephanie Perkins’ new York Times best-selling novel of the same name and written for the screen by Henry Gayden (Shazam!), directed by Patrick Brice (Creep) and produced by James Wan’s Atomic Monster (The Conjuring) and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps (“Stranger Things”)
Things Heard and Seen
Based on the Elizabeth Brundange novel “All Things Cease to Appear,” Things Heard and Seen tells of a Manhattan couple that moves to a historic hamlet in the Hudson Valley and come to discover that their marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals their new home’s history.
Beckett
A vacationing couple fall trap to a violent conspiracy with tragic consequences.
Intrusion
Logan Marshall-Green (Upgrade) and Freida Pinto (“The Path”) star in this Netflix thriller. When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.
O2
From director Alexandre Aja (Crawl), O2 tells of a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up sequestered in a box no larger than a coffin. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.
Night Teeth
Starring Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Spider-Man: Far from Home), Debby Ryan (“Insatiable”), Lucy Fry (Bright), Raúl Castillo (“Ghost Tape”), and Alfie Allen (“Game of Thrones”), Night Teeth follows a young chauffeur who picks up two mysterious women for a night of party-hopping across L.A. But when his passengers reveal their true nature — and a dangerous underworld lurking in the shadows — he must fight to stay alive.
The Swarm
Virginie lives on a farm with her children Laura and Gaston and raises locusts as a high-protein crop. Life is hard: money worries and practical problems are piling up, tensions with her kids and neighbors are running high. But everything changes when she discovers the locusts have a taste for blood.
The Woman in the Window
Based on the novel by A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window is directed by Joe Wright and features a star-studded cast that includes Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Fred Hechinger, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore. The film follows an agoraphobic woman, played by Adams, living alone in New York who begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Check out Netflix’s 2021 Film Preview Trailer below highlighting all of the new films coming to the streaming service in the coming year.
