Samara Weaving Fights Back in #1 Thriller on Peacock Streaming Charts
Fall is almost here, and for horror fans, that means a couple of things. We’re all getting ready for Halloween, of course. We’re also looking to play catch-up on all the spooky, scary, and otherwise gruesome movies we missed in 2025 so far. So it’s a good thing for Peacock.
If I’m pointing fellow fans toward overlooked films from earlier this year, there are a few key places to look. One of them is a dark comedy starring modern scream queen Samara Weaving, and it’s climbing the streaming charts right now. It’s not exactly horror, but it’s scary, and it’s got loads of macabre energy.
In Borderline, written and directed by her husband Jimmy Warden, Weaving plays Sofia, a pop star with a stalker problem. The stalker, Paul (Ray Nicholson), is convinced he’s meant to marry Sofia, and he has a violent history with her security detail. So when Paul breaks out of prison after his last outburst, he makes a beeline for Sofia’s mansion. His arrival, along with the return of Sofia’s head bodyguard, Bell (Eric Dane), sets in motion a truly wild night.
Borderline is now streaming, but it originally hit theaters back in the spring. Dread Central’s Mary Beth McAndrews said the “increasingly ridiculous situation and unhinged performances keep Borderline entertaining,” in her three-star review. Borderline is indeed unhinged, bringing the kind of energy that put Weaving on the map in films like Ready or Not and The Babysitter. It’s also a showcase for Nicholson, who gives Paul such humanity that we’re forced to reckon with the film’s (albeit glancing) explorations of fame, obsession, and what happens when power dynamics get not just flipped, but all-out jumbled. It’s a fun ride with a blackhearted sense of humor, and I had a blast watching it.
After a VOD run, Borderline is now streaming on Peacock, where it’s still one of the platform’s Top 10 movies.
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