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From his early, genre-defining work with the likes of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, to more recent directorial efforts like The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and a blockbuster adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, Guy Ritchie is the man behind many iconic projects. Recently, he’s taken his talent to the small screen, directing two episodes of both Young Sherlock, another adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s original work, and 2025’s MobLand, with both shows already renewed for second seasons. But of all these small-screen projects, none has been better received than The Gentlemen.

A follow-up to the 2019 movie of the same name, The Gentlemen scored an impressive response from both critics and audiences. It earned more than 76 million global viewers shortly after release, as well as drawing 1.21 billion viewing minutes between March 4 and March 10. Now, the wait is on for more, with the second season set to premiere sometime in 2026. Fans are excited for a second helping of Theo James‘ Eddie Horniman, who starred alongside Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales alum Kaya Scodelario as Susie Glass.

Before James returns to the criminal underworld, his work in the Underworld franchise is proving popular on streaming. Underworld: Blood Wars, directed by Anne Foerster and starring James, was the fifth installment in the franchise and, sadly, is considered the final nail in the coffin. The film was the subject of scathing reviews, and, on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, earned just 21% from critics. This is despite proving quietly popular in theaters, turning a $35 million budget into a global haul of $81.2 million. Bouncing back a decade on, Underworld: Blood Wars is one of the most-streamed movies on Hulu in the U.S., at the time of writing.



















Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz
Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?
Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky

Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.

🏕️Jason

🔪Michael

💤Freddy

🎈Pennywise

🪆Chucky

01

Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do?
First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.





02

Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong?
Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.





03

What is your most reliable survival asset?
Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?





04

What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through?
Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.





05

You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role?
Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.





06

What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make?
Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.





07

What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means?
Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.





08

It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it?
The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?





Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated
Your Best Chance Is Against…

Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.


Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th

Jason Voorhees

Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.

  • He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
  • Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
  • The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
  • You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.


Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween

Michael Myers

Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.

  • But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
  • Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
  • Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
  • You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.


Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy Krueger

Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.

  • You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
  • The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
  • Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
  • Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.


Derry, Maine · It

Pennywise

Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.

  • The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
  • You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
  • That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
  • It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.


Chicago · Child’s Play

Chucky

Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.

  • You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
  • Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
  • Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
  • Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.

Kate Beckinsale as Selene in Underworld: Blood Wars.
Kate Beckinsale as Selene in Underworld: Blood Wars.
Larry Horricks. ©Screen Gems/courtesy Everett Collection

As James’ vampire flick proves a sleeper hit on Hulu, it’s another critically panned horror effort that currently tops the charts. The film in question is Return to Silent Hill, the third movie installment in the Silent Hill franchise, which debuted to awful reviews earlier this year. In Ross Bonaime‘s review of the movie for Collider, he called it “an ugly, laughable adaptation.” Nevertheless, the film is currently topping the Hulu charts in America.

Underworld: Blood Wars is a streaming hit on Hulu. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.


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Release Date

January 6, 2017

Runtime

91 Minutes

Director

Anna Foerster


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