If you are a Netflix subscriber, there’s a good chance you have a watchlist full of movies you haven’t watched yet.
Watch With Us is here to tell you to ignore those films in favor of these underrated Netflix movies you should watch this weekend.
If you need a laugh, stream Blades of Glory immediately — the film features Will Ferrell at his best and most unhinged.
Subscribers looking for a little adventure should tune in to the family film Zathura, while murder mystery enthusiasts should turn off the lights and stream one of Alfred Hitchcock’s final movies, Frenzy.
‘Blades of Glory’ (2007)
Big-budget comedies rarely play at movie theaters these days, but that wasn’t always the case. Nearly 20 years ago, the genre regularly dominated multiplexes nationwide, and one of its biggest stars was Will Ferrell. Everyone knows and loves his hits, Talladega Nights and Anchorman, but his funniest comedy, Blades of Glory, never gets the respect it deserves.
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Ferrell stars as Chazz Michael Michaels, a disgraced male figure skater who has been banned from competing in the Winter Olympics. He finds a loophole where he can compete as a pair with another male skater, but the only who who can tolerate him is his rival, the sweet-natured Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder). They can’t stand each other, but to win the gold medal they both desire, they’ll have to set aside their mutual dislike to succeed.
Blades of Glory is streaming on Netflix.
‘Zathura’ (2005)
Long before he jump-started the Marvel Cinematic Universe by directing Iron Man, Jon Favreau helmed this enjoyable kids’ adventure based on the book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. When 10-year-old Walter (Josh Hutcherson) and his 6-year-old brother Danny (Jonah Bobo) discover an old board game called Zathura in their basement, they begin playing it out of sheer curiosity.
They soon discover that the game has the power to change reality itself, which at first thrills and then scares the siblings. When the game puts their older sister into a catatonic sleep and transports their home to a faraway galaxy, Walter and Danny realize the only way to return to their normal lives is to finish the game. That’s easier said than done, as Zathura is a sentient board game that doesn’t want any of its players to complete it.
Like the ‘80s classics Explorers with Ethan Hawke and Flight of the Navigator, Zathura blends far-out sci-fi concepts with wholesome family-friendly adventure. There’s a genuine sense of awe and danger each time the boys play the game, and you never know what curveballs the game will throw at them — or you. Zathura wasn’t a hit when it was first released, but it still holds up today as an all-ages yarn that will make you want to gaze up at the stars and wonder what’s out there in the cosmos.
Zathura is streaming on Netflix.
‘Frenzy’ (1972)
Alfred Hitchcock made movies for 60 years and witnessed the birth of sound, the wide usage of color cinematography and the collapse of the Hollywood star system. Most of his films, however, remained largely the same — thrillers that depicted acts of murder and sexual violence that weren’t too graphic. The only exception was 1972’s Frenzy, a British thriller that’s the only R-rated movie the Master of Suspense ever made.
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A serial killer known as the “Necktie Murderer” is terrorizing London’s Covent Garden, and the prime suspect is Richard Blarney (Jon Finch). His ex-wife is the killer’s latest victim and while they didn’t get along, he didn’t hate her enough to kill her. On the run, Richard needs to prove his innocence by finding out who the Necktie Murderer is — and save his next victim before its too late.
Frenzy is an old-school thriller told with the usual skill and humor one associates with Hitchcock. What sets Frenzy apart from the director’s other classics is how unlikable everyone is, especially the hero. In fact, the only character who has any charm or appeal is the murderer himself, who is revealed very early on to be Bob Rusk (Barry Foster). What results is an odd dichotomy of the audience rooting for both the hero to clear his name and the villain to get away with it. With its deliberately awkward scenes of violence and abrupt ending, Frenzy is unlike any thriller you’ve ever watched.
Frenzy is streaming on Netflix.
