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Ryan Gosling in a fur-lined coat in Blade Runner 2049

Published Oct 23, 2026, 5:49 PM EDT

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This weekend at the box office, several new challengers to the throne make their debut. Director Kitao Sakurai's live-action Street Fighter will face competition from the likes of Tom Rhys Harries’ Matt Hagen in Clayface, the adventurous young Prue (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) in LAIKA's new animated fantasy epic, Wildwood, and many more. With so much on offer at this weekend's box office, you might feel required to head down to your local theater. However, should you prefer to stay at home, there's more than enough quality on streaming to keep you entertained. Here's a look at three Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend.

For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.

1 'The Bride!' (2026)

Rotten Tomatoes: 57% | IMDb: 5.6/10

This weekend, Prime Video has acquired one of 2026's biggest underperformers at the box office, yet a film that surely deserves a second chance. The Bride!, director Maggie Gyllenhaal's fresh new feminist take on the 1935 movie Bride of Frankenstein, stars Jessie Buckley as a murdered woman brought back to life as the new wife of Christian Bale's Frankenstein, only for her radical ideas to change the world around her.

A stylish, gothic film perfect for this spooky season, what The Bride! potentially lacks in finesse it makes up for in bold ideas that will keep you hooked to your screen. Buckley and Bale are joined in a stellar ensemble by Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, and even director Maggie's famous brother Jake Gyllenhaal. It might be one of the biggest box office flops of 2026 so far, but The Bride! is sure to prove a hit on streaming.

Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars

Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive.

💊The Matrix

🔥Mad Max

🌧️Blade Runner

🏜️Dune

🚀Star Wars

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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.

APull on every thread until I understand the system — then figure out how to break it. BStop asking questions and start stockpiling — food, fuel, weapons. Questions don't keep you alive. CKeep my head down, observe carefully, and trust no one until I know who's pulling the strings. DStudy the patterns. Every system has a rhythm — learn it, and you learn how to survive it. EFind the people fighting back and join them. You can't fix a broken galaxy alone.

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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.

AKnowledge. If you understand the system, you don't need resources — you can generate them. BFuel. Everything else — movement, power, escape — runs on it. CTrust. In a world of fakes and informants, a truly reliable ally is rarer than any commodity. DWater. And after water, information — the two things empires are truly built on. EShips and credits. The galaxy is big — you survive it by being able to move through it freely.

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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you're honest about what you're actually afraid of.

AThat reality itself is a lie — that everything I experience has been constructed to keep me compliant. BA raid. No warning, no mercy — just the roar of engines and then nothing left. CBeing identified. Once someone with power decides you're a problem, you're already out of time. DBeing outmanoeuvred — losing a political game I didn't even know I was playing. EThe Empire tightening its grip until there's nowhere left to run.

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How do you deal with authority you don't trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.

ASubvert it from the inside — learn its rules well enough to weaponise them against it. BIgnore it and stay out of its reach. The further from any power structure, the better. CAppear to comply while doing exactly what I need to do. Visibility is the enemy. DManoeuvre within it carefully. You can't beat a system you refuse to understand. EResist openly when I have to. Some things are worth the risk of being seen.

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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn't just tactical — it's physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.

AUnderground bunkers and server rooms — cramped, artificial, but with access to everything that matters. BOpen wasteland — brutal sun, no shelter, constant movement. At least the threat is honest. CA dense, rain-soaked city where you can disappear into the crowd and nobody asks questions. DMerciless desert — extreme heat, no water, and something enormous living beneath the sand. EThe fringe — backwater planets and busy spaceports where the Empire's attention rarely reaches.

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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.

AA tight crew of believers who've seen behind the curtain and have nothing left to lose. BOne or two people I'd trust with my life. Any more than that and someone talks. CNobody, ideally. Alliances are liabilities. I work alone unless I have no choice. DA community bound by shared hardship and mutual survival — people who need each other to last. EA ragtag team with wildly different skills and total commitment when it counts.

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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they're actually made of.

AI won't harm the innocent — even the ones who'd report me without hesitation. BI do what I have to to protect the people I've chosen. Everything else is negotiable. CThe line shifts depending on who's asking and what's at stake. DI draw a long-term line — nothing that compromises my people's future, even if it'd help now. ESome lines, once crossed, can't be uncrossed. I know which ones they are.

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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.

AWaking others up — dismantling the illusion so no one else has to live inside it. BFinding somewhere — or someone — worth protecting. A reason to keep moving. CAnswers. Understanding what I am, what any of this means, before time runs out. DLegacy — shaping the future in a way that outlasts me by generations. EFreedom — for myself, for others, for every world still living under someone else's boot.

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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You'd Survive In…

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

The Matrix

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You're a systems thinker who can't help but notice the seams in things.

You're drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You'd find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines' worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You'd be the one probing the walls for the door.

Mad Max

The wasteland doesn't reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That's you.

You don't need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you're good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.

Blade Runner

You'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You're not a hero. But you're not lost, either.
In Blade Runner's world, that distinction is everything.

Dune

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they're survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You'd learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn't just survive Arrakis — you'd begin to reshape it.

Star Wars

The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn't have it any other way.

You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You'd gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire's grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn't something you're capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.

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2 'Totally Killer' (2023)

Rotten Tomatoes: 85% | IMDb: 6.5/10

If you're looking for Halloween-friendly content on Prime Video, the streamer offers plenty of spooky originals to sink your teeth into. One such film, director Nahnatchka Khan's Totally Killer, follows teenager Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) as she is unexpectedly transported back to 1987 and must solve the mystery of the "Sweet 16 Killer," an entity that once killed all her mother's friends.

It might be nothing new and feature plenty of slasher tropes, but this neon-soaked, easy-viewing horror certainly ticks all the Halloween boxes. Shipka proves a perfect lead in this fun time-travel tale, with Collider's Maggie Boccella writing back in 2023 that "Shipka’s performance is heartfelt enough that she sells the attempts at feminist shock-and-awe as well as she can."

3 'Blade Runner 2049' (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes: 88% | IMDb: 8.0/10

One of the most exciting projects scheduled to hit Prime Video next month is Blade Runner 2099, so you've got just a few weeks to catch up on what came before. Available to stream on Prime Video only until the end of October is Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, itself an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A masterfully crafted legacy sequel to one of sci-fi cinema's best, Blade Runner 2049 somehow flopped at the box office back in 2017. Thankfully, those who did watch it fell in love, including those in the Academy, who awarded this cyber thriller two Oscars (Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects). Headlined by Ryan Gosling and featuring Dave Bautista, Ana de Armas, and Robin Wright, with Harrison Ford even reprising his role from the original, this isn't to be missed.