Get your calendars out because we’ve got the locked down dates of new genre titles streaming on Netflix this coming December.
After just revealing plans for the next Riddick sequel and television series, the 2004 animated feature The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury will be available on December 1st, as will Sam Raimi’s superhero horror Darkman. You’ll also want to paint it black after revisiting David Koepp’s criminally underrated 1999 Stir of Echoes, starring Kevin Bacon, which also arrives Dec. 1, along with its sequel Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming.
In addition, the only other movie is the awful Vampire Academy that will hit on December 7th.
Being that it’s the winter holidays, it’s no surprise that Netflix is lacking in new horror, but there is one gem set to drop right on Christmas. Shit, it’s the best present you’re going to get all year.
Netflix has set December 25th as the U.S. debut of the “Black Mirror” holiday special, ‘White Christmas,’ which stars Jon Hamm in a must-see mind-fuck from the best sci-fi anthology series this decade.
In the episode, “Joe Potter (Rafe Spall) and Matt Trent (Jon Hamm) work at a small, remote outpost in the middle of a snowy wilderness. Joe wakes up on Christmas Day and finds Matt preparing Christmas dinner, with “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” playing on the radio. Matt tries to get Joe to talk about why he accepted the job at the outpost, a topic they have never discussed in the five years they have worked together. Joe is reluctant to say anything, and instead asks why Matt took the job. Happy for the conversation, Matt begins his own story.”
This is the perfect way to set up the new series coming via online streaming company next year. Open this present first so you can watch with the entire family.