5 best Amazon movies on Prime Video this weekend: Master and more horror

The weekend is upon us, and it is time to schedule your weekend movie binges on Prime Video.  Amazon movies have so many to choose from, but we are here to aid you in that search. Be sure to check out the newly released Amazon Original Movie, Master. 

Be sure to check out all the releases for March 2022. Great new choices like Lucy and Desi and The Boys Presents: Diabolical along with many old favorites including, The Proposal, Weekend at Bernie’s, Dead Poet’s Society, and many more.

This weekend, we recommend some great horror movies on Prime Video to keep your weekend spooky.

5 best Amazon movies for the weekend

Master (2022)

The Amazon Original Movie Master is now available to stream via Prime Video. Written and directed by Mariama Diallo, the film received excellent reviews at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

The story focuses on three women at Ancaster Collage. Professor Gail Bishop (Regina Hall), the first Black “master” of the residence hall, Jasmine Moore (Zoe Renee), a first-year student, and Professor Liv Beckman (Amber Gray), who is up for tenure.

Each woman comes up against their own struggles as something sinister is afoot on the college that is built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill.

Prometheus (2012)

The sci-fi horror Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. Directed by Ridley Scott (Alien), this movie serves as the fifth installment of the Alien franchise, a prequel to the original.

This movie is set in the late 21st century and finds a crew on the spaceship Prometheus as it searches for the origins of humanity. The crew uses a star map found on Earth in ancient cultural artifacts, which leads them to a distant world where they discover something that could end the human species.

Train to Busan (2016)

Train to Busan is a Korean action horror film that sees a sudden zombie outbreak on a train ride from Seoul to Busan. The majority of the film takes place on the train, making it a wild ride of a movie.

The story focus on Seok-woo (Gong Yoo ), a workaholic divorcee, and his daughter Su-an (Kim Su-an). Her birthday wish is to spend the day with her mother in Busan, which is why they are on the train when the outbreak occurs. The film follows the main characters and many others as the passengers become infected. They fight for survival as more people reanimate, making it more and more difficult to escape.

Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The psychological horror Silence of the Lambs is based on Thomas Harris’s 1988 novel of the same name. Released in 1991, this film became the fifth highest-grossing film worldwide for that year.

The story follows FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), who hunts the serial killer Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine), a man who skins his female victims. She seeks out the assistance of convicted cannibalistic killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).

This is a brilliant horror film with a psychological storyline that will pull you in, as will the performances by Foster and Hopkins.

Hell House LLC. (2015)

The found-footage horror, Hell House LLC., follows a group of documentarians as they look into what happened at a haunted attraction in 2009.

The film is set five years later when the documentary crew investigates the haunted attraction Hell House that saw the death of 15 guests and staff members on their opening night. Reports circulated that an unknown malfunction occurred, causing the deaths, which was the only explanation. Now, the crew will reveal everything that happened leading up to and during the opening night tragedy.

Which Amazon movies are you watching this weekend? Let us know in the comments below.

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