While Netflix’s own programming tends to cling to the service in perpetuity (unless your name is Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), its library rotates titles with regular frequency. io9 already keeps you posted on what’s arriving each month, but what about all the good stuff that’s leaving?
Here are 10 genre picks with an impending expiration date on Netflix. Watch now or cry later.
This Is the End
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg co-wrote and directed this 2013 stoner comedy, which now exists as both a fun movie imagining a worst-case-scenario apocalypse and a time capsule of Hollywood’s cool kids at the time. While not everyone’s star has aged with equal brightness (trigger warning: James Franco), This Is the End is still stuffed with genuinely ridiculous and often laugh-out-loud moments. (Leaving Netflix February 28)
The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2
To some, Andrew Garfield’s 2012 and 2014 stints as the webslinger might have felt a little soon after the Sam Raimi-Tobey Maguire trilogy, which wrapped up in 2007. But the films still have their charms (Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy chief among them) that help cancel out some of their missteps, especially in the overstuffed second film. There was enough goodwill for Garfield’s performance that fans welcomed him back for his surprise cameo as an alternate-dimension version of the character in Spider-Man: No Way Home. (Both leaving Netflix February 28)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Red alert: today is the last day to make a grave miscalculation on your road trip and start poking around a random rural farmhouse, assuming (wrongly) that a chainsaw-wielding maniac and his equally maniacal family aren’t licking their lips while keeping tabs on your every move. Tobe Hooper’s 1974 masterpiece looks to be inspiring yet more fresh material, including a first-ever TV series, now that A24 has the rights; we’ll be curious to see what comes of that. No matter what, though, we’re safe in the knowledge that nothing will ever eclipse the original. (Leaving Netflix February 17)
Christine
The story goes that neither director John Carpenter nor source-material author Stephen King thought too highly of Christine, but there’s a reason why the ultimate car-horror movie has gained a cult following in the years since its 1983 release. There’s the cast, featuring Keith Gordon as a geeky 1970s teen who becomes obsessed with his possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury as he works to restore it; William Ostrander as Buddy, who stands high in the pantheon of sinister King-created bullies; and Harry Dean Stanton as the detective who must accept the idea that a vehicle can a) become sentient and b) commit murder. Silly? Yes! Scary? It’s John Carpenter, man! (Leaving Netflix February 28)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
If last year’s reboot left you dissatisfied with where Julie and Ray ended up in their lives (especially Ray, yikes), you can go back to 1997 and see where it all began, with the benefit of Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar (no de-aging necessary) along for the ride. While I Know What You Did Last Summer was seen as riding Scream’s slasher coattails back in the mid-’90s, it has its own charms, including a quaint beachy setting that would be a lovely place to live if not for the worrisome body count, plus a couple of convincing red herrings and a sly twist worked into its whodunnit. (Leaving Netflix February 28)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Everyone always remembers Gary Oldman’s ferociously campy performance as the Count, but even when he’s not onscreen in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 gothic extravaganza, there’s always something to marvel at. The (Oscar-nominated) art direction and (Oscar-winning) costumes are lush and lavish, and let’s not forget all the other divas who light up the screen: Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Richard E. Grant, Tom Waits, Monica Bellucci, and an outrageously miscast Keanu Reeves, to name a few. (Leaving Netflix February 28)
Brightburn
A few years before James Gunn became co-head of DC and then directed Superman, he produced this very grim 2019 spin on Superman’s origin story. A spaceship crashes on Earth, and a kindly Kansas couple adopts the very human-looking baby they find inside. But as the kid is approaching his teenage years, his powers begin to emerge, and his villainous instincts along with them. “Superhero horror” isn’t a very common genre mash-up, but Brightburn is an intriguing attempt that works more than it doesn’t. (Leaving Netflix February 28)
Hollow Man
In 2000, Paul Verhoeven capped a jaw-dropping Hollywood run (from 1987 to 1997, he directed RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, and Starship Troopers) with this visual effects-driven Invisible Man riff that alienated some audiences by injecting its mad scientist tale with a palpable mean streak. As the title character, Kevin Bacon brings his weird alchemy of always seeming like a nice guy even when playing monsters; the supporting cast includes Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, and Elisabeth Shue, not to mention some very charismatic apes. (Leaving Netflix February 28)
Timecop
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s action-star reign peaked with this 1994 sci-fi tale, which was his biggest box-office success and proved once and for all that his appeal was fan-based and critic-proof. Timecop is based on a Dark Horse Comics tale and imagines that in 1994, time travel is invented—necessitating the creation of a government agency to regulate its use, with a special branch of cops assigned to chase after crooks who abuse it. Van Damme plays an agent who becomes drawn into a political conspiracy in 1994 and 2004 and must fix the past to fix the present… while showering anyone who gets in his way with bullets, of course. (Leaving Netflix March 9)
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