The 3 Netflix Movies Everyone’s Watching This Week (April 9–12)
Action fans, rejoice: Netflix unleashes Thrash this week, a survival-horror blitz poised to rocket to the top of the movie chart—kicking off a stacked slate of must-watch drops.
If your watchlist lives on adrenaline, Netflix just teed up a good week. The streamer is dropping a new action- survival horror movie, and I would not be shocked if it sprints to No. 1. If you want a quick guide to what to hit play on right now, here are the three Netflix movies worth your time: one crowd-pleasing franchise reinvention, one timely slice of horror, and one very wet shark problem.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
Jumanji evolves with the times here. The cursed board game basically rebrands itself as a video game to lure in new players, which is how four modern-day teens end up literally inside it: Spencer Gilpin (Alex Wolff), Anthony 'Fridge' Johnson (Ser'Darius Blain), Bethany Walker (Madison Iseman), and Martha Kaply (Morgan Turner).
Inside the game, they pop into very not-teen avatars: Spencer becomes Dr. Xander Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson), Fridge is Franklin 'Mouse' Finbar (Kevin Hart), Bethany turns into Professor Sheldon 'Shelly' Oberon (Jack Black ), and Martha lands as Ruby Roundhouse (Karen Gillan). Spencer and Martha are not mad about their glow-ups. The catch: everyone only gets three lives. Burn through them before finishing the quest that a 90s kid, Alex Vreeke, started and it is game over in the real world too. For clarity, Alex is the missing player from back then; in-game, his avatar Seaplane McDonough is played by Nick Jonas.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is streaming on Netflix now.
Saw X (2023)
Yes, there are gnarly traps. But the thing that makes this one sting is how it taps into rage at predatory 'miracle cures.' Set before Saw III, John Kramer (Tobin Bell) learns he has only months left as his brain cancer advances. Desperate, he travels to Mexico for an experimental procedure run by Dr. Cecilia Pederson (Synnøve Macody Lund) and her crew. Bad idea. They are scammers, and when John figures that out, he does what John does: he recruits his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) and sets up a series of games for the con artists. Pass the tests or face the nastiest exits he can engineer.
Saw X is streaming on Netflix now.
Thrash (2026 )
File this under exactly what it sounds like: sharks, but make it a disaster movie. A Category 5 monster storm floods the coast and drives a bunch of hungry sharks into town. Bridgerton alum Phoebe Dynevor leads the charge as Lisa Fields, a pregnant woman stuck in her car as the water — and the fins — rise. The film weaves in parallel survival threads too, including researcher Dale Edwards (Djimon Hounsou) racing to protect his niece, Dakota Edwards (Whitney Peak), while trying to pull as many people out of the flood as he can. First responders are overwhelmed. Help is not coming. It is up to them to get through it.
It is not as winky as Sharknado, but the premise absolutely swings for the fences, and I would not be surprised if it bites into the top of Netflix's movie chart.
Thrash hits Netflix on April 10.