Toxic Avenger, The Running Man and The Black Phone 2 arrive on streaming

Polygon reports that several high-profile genre films are now streaming: Peter Dinklage’s The Toxic Avenger is available on Hulu, Edgar Wright’s The Running Man has landed on Paramount Plus, and The Black Phone 2 is streaming on Peacock this weekend.

The Running Man follows Glen Powell’s Ben Richards as he enters a rigged reality competition to win $1 billion for his daughter’s medicine while being hunted by trained killers and ordinary people; the article’s review said the film “never fully gels” but called Powell’s performance “winning, sympathetic.” The Toxic Avenger, directed by Macon Blair, is a remake that took almost two years to reach a wider release after its 2023 Fantastic Fest premiere and pits Dinklage’s mutated janitor against a corrupt pharmaceutical exec. Horror offerings include Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s campy, gory Bone Lake on Netflix and Scott Derrickson’s more ambitious sequel The Black Phone 2 on Peacock, which follows Finn and his sister as they grapple with psychic abilities and calls from the dead.

The piece rounds up additional new releases across streaming and VOD — from Shudder thrillers to new-to-rent films like Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny — and includes brief review excerpts and context for several titles cited in the roundup.

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