3 Prime Video Movie Masterpieces You Need to Watch in May 2026
How does Prime Video do it?
Amazon's streamer keeps expanding its already impressive digital library by adding one hit after another. The online platform is now home to the six-time Oscar-winning action-drama One Battle After Another, which is scheduled to be added on Saturday, May 23.
That Leonardo DiCaprio-starring movie is already a masterpiece, but Watch With Us has found a couple of other modern classics that are worth adding to your queue.
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is just as potent now as it was when it sparked a firestorm of conversation in 1989, while the gory horror classic The Return of the Living Dead might make you swear off meat for the rest of your life.
‘One Battle After Another' (2025)
When toxic gas is accidentally released from an old Army canister in Louisville, Kentucky, all hell breaks loose - and the dead rise from their graves to feast on brains, brains and more brains. A group of teens is stuck in a cemetery when these zombies come a-calling, and they have to survive the night with few resources, an acid rain storm and a growing horde of the undead chasing them. How do you kill what's already dead? That's the question they'll all have to answer if they're going to make it out alive.
The Return of the Living Dead has nothing to do with George A. Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead franchise, save for some slow-moving zombies and some snarky social commentary. This homage is more violent, though, with some pretty gnarly kills and all sorts of decomposed bodies on display. It's not for the faint of heart, especially when that organ and others are consumed so vociferously - and so graphically. I can't think of another horror film that mixes such macabre humor, shocking violence and blunt nihilism as The Return of the Living Dead, which makes it the rare masterpiece you probably never want to watch ever again.
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This story was originally published May 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM.