Prime Video Officially Loses Ryan Gosling's Greatest Sci-Fi Movie Next Month

This weekend at the box office, several new challengers to the throne make their debut. Director Kitao Sakurai‘s live-action Street Fighter will face competition from the likes of Tom Rhys Harries‘ Matt Hagen in Clayface, the adventurous young Prue (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) in LAIKA‘s new animated fantasy epic, Wildwood, and many more. With so much on offer at this weekend’s box office, you might feel required to head down to your local theater. However, should you prefer to stay at home, there’s more than enough quality on streaming to keep you entertained. Here’s a look at three Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend.

For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.

1

‘The Bride!’ (2026)

Rotten Tomatoes: 57% | IMDb: 5.6/10

This weekend, Prime Video has acquired one of 2026’s biggest underperformers at the box office, yet a film that surely deserves a second chance. The Bride!, director Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s fresh new feminist take on the 1935 movie Bride of Frankenstein, stars Jessie Buckley as a murdered woman brought back to life as the new wife of Christian Bale‘s Frankenstein, only for her radical ideas to change the world around her.

A stylish, gothic film perfect for this spooky season, what The Bride! potentially lacks in finesse it makes up for in bold ideas that will keep you hooked to your screen. Buckley and Bale are joined in a stellar ensemble by Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, and even director Maggie’s famous brother Jake Gyllenhaal. It might be one of the biggest box office flops of 2026 so far, but The Bride! is sure to prove a hit on streaming.

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.

• You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
• You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
• You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
• The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

• You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
• You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
• You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
• In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

• You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
• In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
• You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
• In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

• Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
• You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
• Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
• In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.

The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

• You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
• You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
• You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
• In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.

2

‘Totally Killer’ (2023)

Rotten Tomatoes: 85% | IMDb: 6.5/10

If you’re looking for Halloween-friendly content on Prime Video, the streamer offers plenty of spooky originals to sink your teeth into. One such film, director Nahnatchka Khan‘s Totally Killer, follows teenager Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) as she is unexpectedly transported back to 1987 and must solve the mystery of the “Sweet 16 Killer,” an entity that once killed all her mother’s friends.

It might be nothing new and feature plenty of slasher tropes, but this neon-soaked, easy-viewing horror certainly ticks all the Halloween boxes. Shipka proves a perfect lead in this fun time-travel tale, with Collider’s Maggie Boccella writing back in 2023 that “Shipka’s performance is heartfelt enough that she sells the attempts at feminist shock-and-awe as well as she can.”

3

‘Blade Runner 2049’ (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes: 88% | IMDb: 8.0/10

One of the most exciting projects scheduled to hit Prime Video next month is Blade Runner 2099, so you’ve got just a few weeks to catch up on what came before. Available to stream on Prime Video only until the end of October is Denis Villeneuve‘s Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott‘s Blade Runner, itself an adaptation of Philip K. Dick‘s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A masterfully crafted legacy sequel to one of sci-fi cinema’s best, Blade Runner 2049 somehow flopped at the box office back in 2017. Thankfully, those who did watch it fell in love, including those in the Academy, who awarded this cyber thriller two Oscars (Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects). Headlined by Ryan Gosling and featuring Dave Bautista, Ana de Armas, and Robin Wright, with Harrison Ford even reprising his role from the original, this isn’t to be missed.

Blade Runner 2049