Where to watch Weapons in Australia: Zach Cregger's horror hit is now on Netflix

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Weapons, Zach Cregger's horror hit about a classroom of children who all vanish at 2:17am on the same night, is streaming in Australia on Netflix. It was added on 24 October 2026 and is included in every Netflix plan, so the cheapest way to watch is Standard with ads at $9.99 a month. If you would rather not subscribe, you can rent it for $6.99 in 4K on Apple TV or the Prime Video store. It is not on any free service.

Every way to watch Weapons in Australia

Option	How	Price	Picture
Netflix	Included in every plan	From $9.99 a month (Standard with ads), no free trial	Full HD on Standard, 4K on Premium ($28.99)
Apple TV	Rent or buy	Rent $6.99, buy $19.99	SD, HD and 4K at the same price
Prime Video store	Rent or buy	Rent $6.99, buy $19.99	SD, HD and 4K at the same price

Availability is from our daily check of Australian services on 16 November 2026. Fetch TV stopped selling and renting Weapons on 13 November, according to our JustWatch change archive. The Weapons page always shows today's list.

Which is cheaper? If you already pay for Netflix, it costs nothing extra. If you don't, a $6.99 rental is cheaper than a month of Netflix, but a month of Standard with ads ($9.99) also gets you the horror films listed below, several of which are on Netflix too.

Why Weapons moved from HBO Max to Netflix

Weapons is a Warner Bros. film, and it first streamed in Australia on HBO Max, from 24 October 2025, about 11 weeks after it opened in Australian cinemas on 7 August 2025. Exactly a year later, on 24 October 2026, it arrived on Netflix, and our daily check now finds it on Netflix only. It is not the only one: Ryan Coogler's Sinners, also a 2025 Warner Bros. release, is on Netflix in Australia as well.

What is Weapons about?

One morning, 17 of the 18 children in Justine Gandy's (Julia Garner) third-grade class fail to turn up to school. At 2:17am every one of them got out of bed, walked out the front door and ran into the dark. Only one boy, Alex, is left. The film follows the town's search from several points of view in turn: the teacher everyone blames, a furious father (Josh Brolin), a police officer (Alden Ehrenreich), the school principal (Benedict Wong) and Alex himself, each chapter adding a piece the last one missed.

• Rating: MA15+, with graphic violence. Not one for younger teens.
• Running time: 129 minutes.
• Written and directed by: Zach Cregger, who also co-wrote the score.
• Cast: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Cary Christopher and Amy Madigan.

Amy Madigan's Oscar for Aunt Gladys

Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress at the 98th Academy Awards in March 2026 for playing Aunt Gladys, the aunt who has come to stay with Alex's family. It was her first win, 40 years after her only other nomination, and the film's only nomination. She beat Elle Fanning, Wunmi Mosaku and Teyana Taylor.

Is there a Weapons 2? The Gladys prequel

There is no sequel, but there is a prequel. Warner Bros. and New Line are developing Gladys, an origin story for Madigan's character, dated for cinemas in September 2028 (8 September in the US). Cregger has worked on the story with co-writer Zach Shields; reports differ on whether he will direct, and no cast is confirmed, including Madigan. Warner Bros. is being sold to Paramount Skydance, which could move dates. When Gladys gets an Australian release date, it will appear on the Weapons page and in our coming soon calendar.

More horror like Weapons, and where it streams in Australia

• Barbarian (2022): Cregger's first horror film, about an Airbnb with something in the basement. Not streaming in Australia right now, buy it for $11.99 on Apple TV or the Prime Video store.
• Longlegs (2024): an FBI agent hunts a satanic serial killer. On Netflix, or rent from $4.99.
• Sinners (2025): Ryan Coogler's vampire film with Michael B. Jordan. On Netflix.
• Talk to Me (2023): the Philippou brothers' Adelaide-made possession film. On Netflix and Stan.
• Bring Her Back (2025): the Philippous' second film, with Sally Hawkins. On Paramount+.
• Hereditary (2018): Ari Aster's family grief horror. On Stan.

For the rest of the genre, see the best horror movies on Netflix in Australia and everything new on Netflix this week.