A few days ago, it was announced that the new Halloween movie, Halloween Ends, will be given a theatrical and Peacock streaming release on October 14th. Following that announcement, a press release was sent out to let subscribers know what else they can expect to see on Peacock this Halloween season – and among the movies that will be added to the service at that time is the survival thriller Beast, which just reached theatres last weekend!
Here’s what the press release had to say:
Peacock’s Halloween Horror destination will feature more thrilling film arrivals leading into Halloween including new movies THE BLACK PHONE and BEAST coming straight from theaters along with other horror films streaming on Peacock including original film THEY/THEM from Blumhouse along with YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT, SEPARATION from director William Brent, and some of the most iconic horror franchises of all time including CHUCKY, SAW, HALLOWEEN, TREMORS, and PHANTASM, plus many more titles to be announced.
Directed by Baltasar Kormakur (Contraband) from a screenplay by Ryan Engle (Rampage), Beast finds Idris Elba taking on the role of Dr. Nate Samuels,
a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa where he first met his wife on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy, begins stalking them.
Elba (Hobbs & Shaw) is joined in the cast by Sharlto Copey (District 9) as Nate’s old friend Martin Battles, Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give) as Nate’s 18-year-old daughter Meredith, and Leah Sava Jeffries (Empire) as his 13-year-old daughter Norah.
A collaboration between Universal, Will Packer Productions, Known Associates Entertainment, and South Africa’s Department of Trade Industry and Competition, Beast was filmed in the rural provinces of Limpopo and Northern Cape in Cape Town. Will Packer produced the film with James Lopez, while Jaime Primak Sullivan and Bernard Bellew served as executive producers.
Our own Chris Bumbray gave Beast an 8/10 review, which you can read at THIS LINK. The film opened at #2 at the domestic box office, pulling in over $11.5 million.
Have you seen Beast? Will you be watching it when it reaches the Peacock streaming service this Halloween season? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I will be watching the movie in October for sure.