Everyone’s going gothic this week, as the immortal Frankenstein dominates the latest streaming charts.
Mexican master of the macabre Guillermo Del Toro is having a good week. Following an (all too brief, really) theatrical release, his take on Frankenstein is the #1 streaming movie in Australia right now. The children yearn for darkness, clearly. Or possibly just a shirtless Jacob Elordi, who can say?
It’s a horror threefer this week, with the excellent Bring Her Back having made its streaming debut on Prime Video. Must be a bit bittersweet for the Philippou brothers; in any other week they’d easily have taken the top slot, but they’re being whipped be a genre legend, so maybe it evens out. Weapons, last week’s #1, rounds out the top three.
On the serial side of things, I am happy but not at all surprised that Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus is at #1 – he gave us Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, after all, so a lot of eyes were always gonna wind up on whatever he did next. As it turns out, it’s a high concept lo-fi sci-fi on Apple TV that sees Rhea Seahorn as the last normal person – almost – after an alien virus melds everyone else into some kina weird, happy-clappy, began gestalt mind. If you’ve seen literally any version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, you’re in the right neighbourhood. The thing is, the hive mind seems completely benign, Seahorn’s Carol is a bit of a bitch, and the ethical quandaries are way more complex than your fist glance might indicate. All else aside, being the world’s last misanthrope is deeply relatable.
Australian Streaming Charts supplied by JustWatch.
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