Netflix giveth and Netflix taketh away, and we're sorry to report that this isn't an April Fool's Day joke. Much like Ubisoft's Philippe Tremblay told us to 'get comfortable' with not owning our video games, our monthly subscription to Netflix is effectively a modern version of renting videos from Blockbuster (we still miss you).
The streaming giant has to find new ways to keep us coming back every month, and although we all have our comfort watches, we'd all get bored viewing the same films and shows on a continuous loop.
Despite recent controversy involving Netflix's potential purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, complaints that it's dumbing down content with the 'second screen' theory, and even threats of boycotts due to another price increase, it still sits on its throne as the king of the streaming services. A slew of Netflix originals includes new shows from the Duffer Brothers, Louis Theroux: Insider the Manosphere, and all the true crime documentaries you could need to satiate your morbid curiosity, but it's not just its own content that keeps us coming back for more.
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Licensed TV shows and movies are a huge part of the Netflix catalogue, with Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead slipping alongside chart-topping outings like the Harry Potter movies and The Dark Knight trilogy on rotation.
Still, with HBO Max launching as the new home of Harry Potter and Friends also going the same way, we need a new roster of content to replace them. Another great is being shown the door, with John Krasinski's A Quiet Place leaving Netflix in the United Kingdom on April 16. It's true that there are other sensory horrors on there, thanks to Bird Box and The Silence being Netflix originals, but for many, A Quiet Place is the best of the bunch.
Released in 2018, A Quiet Place stars Krasinski and Emily Blunt as the parents of a family thrust into an apocalyptic wasteland where the human race is being killed by a race of monsters that hunt you based on sound.
Landing an almost unheard of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, it also made an impressive $341 million on a budget of $17 million, received an Academy Award nod for Best Sound Editing, and spawned a whole franchise of movies.
A second sequel (fourth movie in the franchise) is coming in 2027 and has added Sinners' Jack O'Connell to an already all-star cast.
It's a bad month for horror hounds, as Netflix is heading into April by 'slaughtering' a whole host of other favorites. Among the casualties for horror fans, the first three Scream movies, all five seasons of the underrated Van Helsing, and 2018's Halloween requel are all being buried alive.
There's a silver lining that 2022's Halloween Ends is coming to Netflix, but with some claiming it's the 'worst' entry since 2002's Halloween: Resurrection, that might not be good news. Other certified bangers arriving in April are 2022's Scream, A Quiet Place Part II, and even 2025's Bugonia, so it's not all bad news. If you want to catch up on where the story started before jumping into A Quiet Place Part II, you'd better be quick.