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What’s New This Week To Hulu, Amazon Prime, And Shudder? Movies, TV, And Originals

There are plenty of streaming services available to the masses. Between Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and AMC’s horror service Shudder, if you’re looking for something new to watch, chances are there are at least five or six things a week you’ll want to check out. However, skimming through all the monthly lists can be a hassle, so we are breaking down everything coming out this week from Amazon, Hulu, and Shudder below.

If you’re looking for one of the most insane horror movies of all time–one that isn’t Slumber Party Massacre II–may I interest you in Chopping Mall? In this 1986 film, some teens who work at the mall stay after hours to party; however, there is a new security system made up of robots. After a malfunction, the robots start killing all intruders. It is exactly what you need, a cheesy ’80s movie that will make you smile. Chopping Mall arrives on Monday, August 12.

Over on Hulu, The Amazing Johnathan Documentary arrives on Friday, August 16. The movie follows the life of comedian/magician The Amazing Jonathan, who was told he had a year left to live, three years ago. A documentary crew follows him around to uncover the supposed truth. Is he dying or is this all just a prank? The trailer for the upcoming movie makes the whole story seem pretty crazy.

Finally, on Amazon Prime Video this week is Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time, coming on Friday. This is Gaffigan’s first comedy special for Amazon, and per usual, Gaffigan will talk about his life and the world around him. That’s not a great description of this comedy special, is it? Nope, but Gaffigan’s specials are always fantastic, so I’m just alerting you that it’s coming out on August 16.

Below, you’ll find everything coming to Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Shudder for the week of August 11, and if you’re looking for more streaming news, check out everything coming to Netflix this week.

What’s New To Amazon, Hulu, And Shudder This Week?

Sunday, August 11

Hulu

  • AWOL (2016)

Monday, August 12

Amazon Prime Video

  • Andy Irons: Kissed by God (2018)

Shudder

  • Chopping Mall (1986, Jim Wynorski)
  • Get My Gun (2017, Brian Darwas)
  • Why Horror? (2014, Nicolas Kleiman and Rob Lindsay)

Tuesday, August 13

Hulu

  • Sharkfest: Special (National Geographic)
  • Andy Irons: Kissed by Gods (2019)

Thursday, August 15

Hulu

  • Dogman (2019)
  • Own the Sky (2018)
  • Rattlesnakes (2018)
  • Smoke Signals (1998)
  • The Actors (2003)
  • Zoo-Head (2018)

Shudder

  • Incident in a Ghostland (2018)

Friday, August 16

Amazon Prime Video

  • Photograph (2019) – Amazon Prime Original
  • Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time S1 – Amazon Prime Original

Hulu

  • Find Me In Paris: Complete Season 2 (Hulu Original)
  • The Amazing Johnathan Documentary: Documentary Premiere (Hulu Original)

11 Scariest Horror Movies Rated PG-13 (And Lower) Ranked

There is a great tradition of scary stories for kids. We might think of literature aimed at younger audiences as funny, heartwarming, moral, and safe, but horror enters the stories we read from an extremely early age and has done so for hundreds of years. Many of the classic fairy tales that we all grew up with are, at heart, blood-thirsty and pretty disturbing–and in many cases, they’ve been softened for modern audiences from their more disturbing original visions.

It’s a similar story on the big screen. There is something about a young person’s imagination that can make horror far more potent than it would be for an adult, taking scary characters and scenes at face value in a way that older, more cynical and knowing audiences do not. The results are some truly memorable, scary, and impressive movies.

Horror that can be watched by younger people has inevitably changed a lot over the years. Many modern PG-13 rated horror films would’ve easily been rated R a couple of decades ago. And conversely, before the arrival of the PG-13 in 1984, scary films like Jaws and Poltergeist were released with PG ratings. It was the outcry at the PG given to Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in the summer of 1984 that led Steven Spielberg (who produced the former and directed the latter) to suggest that the MPAA adopt an intermediary rating, which they did within a few months. “I created the problem and I also supplied the solution,” Spielberg once said in an interview.

Horror at PG-13 (and PG) means delivering the the genre in a different–and often equally effective–way as R. Explicit gore and brutal violence is out. Instead atmosphere, tension, and suggestion can be relied on for the frights, as well as good old-fashioned monsters. These films often have a more fantastical quality–unsurprisingly, there aren’t many PG-13 rated slasher movies–and are as much about giving the audience a good time as they are scaring them witless. But that’s not to say the best PG-13 horror movies are in any way compromised, and often linger in the mind longer than their more gory R-rated counterparts.

The Guillermo Del Toro-produced Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark is now in theaters, and it shows that horror aimed at a younger audience is still being made. It’s an adaptation of the Alvin Schwartz books, and in his review, GameSpot’s Rafael Motamayor described it as a “great gateway horror movie for kids to get terrified and then hooked for life to the genre.” So here’s some other great gateway horrors that both kids and adults can get scared to…

Save 30% on Gaming Monitor: Get the 24″ LG 24MP88HV-S For $149.99

The LG 24MP88HV-S is a 24″ FHD IPS gaming monitor with an “infinity display” and tons of other great features that make it well worth the full price, so at the 30% off reduced cost of $149.99, this is a deal worth checking out.

What makes the 24″ LG 24MP88HV-S gaming monitor stand out from the rest is its “infinity display,” or extra slim 2.5mm bezel. That means this monitor is mostly screen, giving it a clean, sharp look that takes full advantage of the crystal clear IPS LED display. Other built-in features LG’s on-screen control panel for easy settings and image adjustment, a “black stabilizer” for better contrast in darker video game scenes, plus a “reader mode” that cuts down on the harshness of blue light for easier and more comfortable web browsing.

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Loki: Everything We Know About The Upcoming Disney+ MCU Show

Surprising absolutely no one, the fan-favorite god of mischief is getting his very own Disney+ show.

Surprising absolutely no one, the fan-favorite god of mischief is getting his very own Disney+ show.

Did you leave the theater after Avengers: Endgame with a whole bunch of lingering questions about your favorite characters? Well, if you did, don’t worry. You are far, far, far from alone. And you also just might be in luck because several of the upcoming Disney+ MCU shows are angling to tackle some of those questions once and for all. Are you concerned about what happened to time-traveling Loki who escaped his brief scene with the tesseract? Congratulations! There’s a show for that.

A show called Loki, no less. No fuss, no frills, just one god of mischief doing whatever a god of mischief does with an Infinity Stone at their disposal.

The unfortunate thing is we don’t actually know much about Loki (the show, not the character–boy, that’s going to get confusing isn’t it?) beyond those cursory details. Still, in the spirit of keeping ourselves–and of course, you–as informed and up-to-date as possible, we’ve amassed the few scant confirmed facts we’ve got into one handy list that we’ll continue to update as more information trickles in.

FIFA 20 Will Be the Goofiest in the Franchise and I Can’t Wait

“As you can see, we’re not afraid to polarize fans,” said one FIFA team members as a dabbing unicorn tifo appeared in the stands of a customized stadium in FIFA Ultimate Team. Dabbing unicorns aren’t my aesthetic, but outlandish customization, new house rules (that can now be played online), and ridiculous trick shots in FIFA Volta all have me hyped for FIFA 20: a game that’s sure to be the goofiest entry in the series.

Sports sims aim to capture realism and FIFA 20 is no exception. In fact, the team watched real-life games and FIFA 19 matches side-by-side while brainstorming what changes needed to happen in FIFA 20. But the pursuit of realism isn’t stifling the team’s creativity when it comes to celebrating the sport and taking advantage of the medium: after all, FIFA 20 is still a video game.

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This Xbox One S Bundle Comes With Six Awesome Games At A Discount

The Xbox One S All-Digital Edition released back in May, and only three months later, there’s quite the bundle for it. Online retailer BuyDig is offering an Xbox One S All-Digital bundle with six games and two months of Xbox Live Gold for $330 US, down from $369.

The games included are Minecraft, Madden NFL 20, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 3, and Gears of War 4. BuyDig will ship the bundle to the US, Canada, and UK, but you should expect hefty shipping costs to the latter two countries.

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Last week, we reported on an Xbox One S and 4K TV bundle for $500. It comes with a copy of Madden NFL 20, in addition to a second game depending on which Xbox One S bundle you choose.

The Xbox One S All-Digital Edition is nearly identical to the regular Xbox One S. The only difference is the lack of a disc drive; the All-Digital Edition can’t play physical game discs or 4K Blu-rays.

New Double Fine Adventure Game Knights And Bikes Release Date Revealed

While quirky developer Double Fine was folded into Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios in June 2019, the company is still publishing the action-adventure, coming-of-age romp Knights and Bikes. Foam Sword, composed of former Media Molecule developers, has revealed that its hand-painted adventure game will launch on PC and PlayStation 4 on August 27.

The developer took to Twitter to announce that Knights and Bikes has gone gold, an industry phrase meaning the game has passed various forms of certification, making it officially ready for printing and distribution. Along with the announcement, Foam Sword shared a funny GIF revealing the game’s release date.

Knights and Bikes started as a Kickstarter project in February 2016, raking in more than £100,000 GBP ($121,000 USD) within a few weeks to get development off the ground. The official release date announcement comes more than two years after Knights and Bikes’ expected April 2017 release window.

The game takes place on a British island in the 1980s, with you (and a friend) controlling two friends as they search for exciting and dangerous treasure. Knights and Bikes is billed as a Goonies-inspired, Secret of Mana-esque coming-of-age story where the friends’s bikes are upgradeable. According to Foam Sword, Knights and Bikes was developed with “co-op in mind (although you can still play it single player thanks to some clever AI and by switching between the characters with the shoulder-buttons on the controller).”

Gaming Monitor Deal: Save 26% on LG 24MP59G-P 24″ Gaming Monitor

You can save $41.21 or 26% on the 24″ LG 24MP59G-P FHD IPS gaming monitor on Amazon if you buy today. With the deal, it’s $115.99, plus you get free one-day shipping with Prime.

LG 24MP59G-P 24″ Gaming Monitor Deal

The LG 24MP59G-P is a 24″ Full HD IPS gaming monitor powered by AMD FreeSync technology with a 75Hz refresh rate, motion blur reduction, an on-screen control panel for easy picture adjustment right on your desktop, and even more features via LG’s “Game Mode,” which lets you cycle through and customize different image preset modes for the best experience no matter what you’re playing. This is a pretty affordable monitor as it is, at $157, so with the deal it’s honestly dirt cheap.

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