Here’s Everything New On Netflix This Week, Including Vampire Classics And The Last Call For ‘The Twilight Saga’

2022 is officially on the scene, thank goodness. Netflix has plenty of excellent stuff coming our way in the coming weeks, but the streaming service is taking an unusual route this week: all of the new original content releases are pretty tame. Fortunately, there’s plenty of licensed content that entered the library as of January 1, so there’s no shortage of potential queue additions for you. So, even if you’ve already watched two of the better new original Netflix show seasons (The Witcher, Cobra Kai) that recently hit the streaming service, then you are still in luck.

Two pretty incredible vampire movies (Interview With The Vampire, The Lost Boys) from decades past arrived this week. Feel free to revisit them or watch them for the first time for all of their pop-culture glory and undeniably beautiful bloodsuckers. In addition, all of The Twilight Saga is still available to stream, but only for about a week longer until those sparkly vamps evaporate.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) the streaming platform this week.

No one took Tom Cruise seriously when he plucked up this Anne Rice-created role, and boy, did he ever show us. As Lestat, Tom dominated the night while showing the ropes to Louis, portrayed to perfection by a tortured Brad Pitt. Christian Slater and Antonio Banderas shone in their limited roles, and this was the breakout role for young Kirsten Dunst, who proved to be a menacing little Claudia. Not even for a moment will you find this film to be scary, but the performance are captivating, and the Guns ‘n’ Roses finale strikes the right note.

Lord have mercy. Vampires have never, ever been this cool, and all due credit goes to Joel Schumacher and a menacing, trenchcoat-wearing Kiefer Sutherland for making the annoying Frog Brothers not matter so much here. Dianne Weist and Jamie Gertz and Jason Patric and Alex Winter all hop into this pulpy bloodsucker saga while giving it their all, and that sax guy remains unforgettable. Yep, this was a Coreys project, as well, but one can never forget Kiefer’s immortal chant: “Be one of us.” Yes, please.

These movies weren’t high art, but admittedly, they were incredibly watchable, both from an escapist and a humorist standpoint. Both Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have managed to eclipse the franchise with awards-circuit fare, and back then, who knew that we’d be talking about the latest actress to hit the screen as Princess Diana and a hard-boiled prequel version of Bruce Wayne Sit back and enjoy the mind candy (along with roles played by Michael Sheen and Billy Burke, Bryce Dallas Howard, and J.D. Pardo, among many others) before it disappears in the sparkle of daylight.

Here comes a sequel to the Mexican telenovela/soap opera that’s insanely popular in Argentina. The story revolves around a snooty boarding school where one can barely stomach the drama while students fight during a Battle of the Bands. Everyone here wants a musical career, but of course, there’s romantic and friendship-related hijinks along the way, along with a secret society that’s pulling strings.

Park the kiddos in front of this one, so they can follow a new superhero class who operate on both hearts and smarts while vanquishing the villains who descend upon Hope Springs.

A horrible creature begins to wreak havoc upon society, beginning with a family who chooses to live away from society in tranquility, which is suddenly in more jeopardy than it’s ever been before this story began.

This Italian film follows the Sliding Doors and Ordinary Joe template while four single friends interact in parallel storylines while entering into coupledom.

Avail. 12/31

Cobra Kai: Season 4

The Lost Daughter

Queer Eye: Season 6

Seal Team

Avail. 1/1

Chief Daddy 2 – Going for Broke

The Hook Up Plan: Season 3

300

1BR

Annie (1982)

Big Fish

Braveheart

Cadillac Records

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Doing Hard Time

Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Fight To Save Her Daughter

First Sunday

Free Willy

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Geronimo: An American Legend

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Girl, Interrupted

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Godzilla (1998)

Gremlins

Happy Feet

Hell or High Water

Hook

I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Love You, Man

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Interview with the Vampire

Just Go With It

Kung Fu Panda

Linewatch

The Longest Yard (2005)

The Lost Boys

Midnight in Paris

Monsters vs. Aliens

Nacho Libre

The NeverEnding Story

Paranormal Activity

The Patriot

Road Trip

Runaway Bride

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Stand by Me

Superman Returns

Taxi Driver

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (1990)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Terminator Salvation

The Town

Troy

True Grit (2010)

The Wedding Singer

Wild Wild West

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Woo

Avail. 1/4

Action Pack

Avail. 1/5

Four to Dinner

Rebelde

Avail. 1/6

The Club: Part 2

The Wasteland

Avail. 1/7

Hype House

Johnny Test: Season 2

Leaving 1/10

Hardy Bucks: Seasons 1-4

Leaving 1/11

Betty White: First Lady of Television

Leaving 1/15

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Twilight

Leaving 1/17

The Bling Ring

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