After an American sub ventures into Russian waters responding to a ship in distress-and winds up on the ocean floor itself-Commander Joe Glass (Gerard Butler) draws the dicey duty of leading the investigative voyage. Dealing with literal treacherous waters as well as diplomatic tides, he discovers that the naval disasters may be part and parcel of an audacious power grab at the Kremlin. Throwback thriller also stars Gary Oldman, Common, Linda Cardellini, Toby Stephens, Michael Nyqvist. 122 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

A quartet of bored high school friends thought it'd be all giggles if they went online to discover how to summon the shadowy, willowy child predator whispered of in internet myth. Their search results, however, came up with unholy terror, as visions of the Slender Man began to fill their waking moments as well as their nightmares-from which there was no hitting Inchescape.Inch Effective shocker stars Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, and Javier Botet as the Slender Man. 93 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

Heroine hacker Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) faces another harrowing challenge when she sets out to safeguard a programmer (Stephan Merchant) and his autistic son (Christopher Convery) when the father's missile defense override application has placed them in the crosshairs of both the NSA and a covert cadre of Russian cyber-terrorists. American reboot for the Stieg Larsson-created suspense series also stars Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, and Sverrir Gudnason as Mikael Blomkvist. 117 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Two-disc set.