New to Streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.

Yaga (Neon, October 22)

Fresh off its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and starring Hudson Williams (Heated Rivalry) alongside Noah Reid (Schitt's Creek), this adaptation of Kat Sandler’s hit play reimagines the myth of Baba Yaga and follows Rapp (Reid), a private eye who arrives in the small coastal town of Whittock to investigate the disappearance of Henry Park (Williams), a commercial fishery heir and local party boy. The occult procedural also features Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) as Katherine, an enigmatic university professor who has a penchant for younger men. Releasing just in time for Halloween, Yaga is one for fans of Supernatural and True Blood.

Erebus: Into the Unknown (Neon, October 26)

Bringing to life “a tragedy from the past that continues to have relevance amid today’s unfolding news headlines,” this haunting documentary recounts and reenacts the experiences of the disaster victim identification team sent to investigate Air New Zealand Flight 901, the sightseeing flight which crashed into the side of Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 passengers and crew members onboard. A “compelling mix of documentary and drama,” Erebus: Into the Unknown may clock in at a sprightly 70 minutes, but it certainly packs a punch.

Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? (Netflix, October 22)

In Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? Japanese screen icon Koji Yakusho (Perfect Days) is the legendary Gen Takasegawa. Fresh off his triumphant turn as King Lear at the hallowed Shakespeare’s Globe, the household name returns home to Japan for the first time in two years. Upon his homecoming Takasegawa is confronted with an unimaginable reality: “not only ordinary people, but even his own family and colleagues no longer know who he is.” He’s then forced to fight his way back into the spotlight in a comedy-drama that is bound to be a crowd-pleaser.

The Terror (Neon, October 23)

In this small-screen adaptation of Dan Simmons' 2007 novel The Terror, which fictionalizes Captain Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated charting of the fabled Northwest Passage, the Oscar-nominated Ciarán Hinds (Belfast) is Franklin. Setting sail from England in 1845, his ship the HMS Erebus, as well as the HMS Terror, became locked in pack ice off King William Island in 1846. After that, the entire expedition vanished, so the horror drama takes a few Lovecraftian liberties in imagining the fate of Franklin and his two doomed ships. Described as a “grand treatise on colonial folly,” The Terror will chill you to the bone.

Bama Rush (HBO Max, October 21)

Helmed by Rachel Fleit (Introducing, Selma Blair), the revealing Bama Rush follows four students at the University of Alabama from their recruitment period preparations in the summer of 2022 to the anxiously awaited bid day, the occasion where rushees find out if they have been invited to join a sorority. The insightful documentary, which spotlights “an exclusionary environment that views beauty, wealth, privilege, and conformity as the highest of ideals,” will make you glad that this collegiate tradition doesn’t exist here in Aotearoa.

Pick of the Flicks: Obsession (HBO Max, October 22)

You might have been living under a rock if you haven’t heard of Obsession, the low-budget horror film which has become one of the most profitable productions in Hollywood history. Helmed by 26-year-old Curry Barker, the “exhilarating” film follows Bear (Michael Johnston), a shy music-shop employee who’s helplessly in love with his friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette). He uses the mysterious Monkey's Paw-like "One Wish Willow" to win the heart of his crush, but before long, Bear’s fantasy turns into a blood-curdling nightmare. “A truly effective psychological horror that marks the theatrical debut of a singular horror vision,” Obsession is not for the faint of heart.

The rest

Netflix

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 (October 20)

The Mothers of Penguins S2 (October 21)

The New Stanford Prison Experiment (October 21)

Nobody Wants This S3 (October 22)

Did Someone Happen to Mention Me? (October 22)

Six Kings Slam (October 22)

Couldn't Agree Less with Allison & Isaac (October 22)

Lupin: Part 4 (October 23)

Fading Grandeur (October 23)

Surviving Hurricane Otis (October 23)

The Addams Family (October 23)

Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (October 23)

TVNZ+

Dirty John (Oct 20)

Bling, Hype, and Heartbreak (Oct 22)

The Black Widow Murders (Oct 24)

Ludwig S2 (Oct 25)

MĀORI+

Maiden (October 19)

Pixies (October 23)

San Andreas (October 23)

Heroes of the Golden Mask (October 24)

Monolith (October 24)

Firefighters (October 25)

Neon

The Reagan Show (October 19)

Northern Comfort (October 19)

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story (October 20)

I Am Madeleine: The McCann Stalker (October 20)

Brothers in Arms (October 20)

Never Seen Again (October 21)

Buried (October 21)

Hibiscus & Ruthless (October 21)

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S6 (October 22)

Yaga (October 22)

The Terror (October 23)

The Terror: Infamy (October 23)

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields S1 (October 24)

Eden (October 24)

Young Mothers (October 24)

The Ice King (October 24)

Michael Palin in the Philippines (October 25)

Michael Palin in North Korea (October 25)

The Deminer (October 25)

Erebus: Into the Unknown (October 26)

Ballet Now (October 26)

Prime Video

Love in Disguise (October 20)

Apple TV

Where’s Wanda? S2 (October 21)

DocPlay

Sentient (October 19)

AroVision

By Any Means (October 20)
The Weight (October 21)

Hayu

The Golden Life (October 21)

HBO Max

Women Wearing Shoulder Pads (October 19)

The Gilded Age Podcast S3 (October 19)

Under the Grapefruit Tree: The CC Sabathia Story (October 20)

Surviving the Jehovah's Witnesses (October 21)

The Last Woodsmen S3 (October 21)

An Intimate Evening with Adam Pally (October 21)

Bama Rush (October 21)

The Hype S1-S2 (October 21)

Obsession (October 22)

The Flores Massacre (October 22)

Gold Rush S17 (October 22)

61* (October 22)

The Leisure Class (October 22)

Sugar (October 23)

Wit (October 23)

Gift (October 24)

Aida Rodriguez Comedy Special (October 25)

Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest (October 25)