Hope (2026) Guide: Where to Watch, Cast and Rating

A Cannes competition film that opens as a monster movie and ends as something stranger

Hope is not currently on any subscription service in the US. Na Hong-jin’s first film since 2016’s The Wailing competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May 2026 before NEON opened it in US theaters that September, and as of this guide it is rent-or-buy only: $19.99 to rent, $24.99 to own, on Prime Video and Apple TV. There is no announced date for it to land on a subscription plan.

The premise undersells the film by design: a remote Korean harbor town, a mysterious creature, a search party that becomes the hunted. Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander — married in real life, on screen together for the first time since 2016 — play two of the otherworldly beings behind it, and Hwang Jung-min and Zo In-sung lead the human side as the officers investigating. Na Hong-jin’s films (The Chaser, The Wailing) tend to start as one genre and end as another, and the film’s own synopsis signals the same turn here: what starts as a search for a dangerous animal escalates into something closer to cosmic horror, with the searchers becoming the hunted.

At 157 minutes it is a long sit for a horror film, and the R rating covers strong bloody violence, language throughout, and flashing-light sequences worth knowing about if you are photosensitive. Nothing about it requires prior viewing — it is an original screenplay, not an adaptation or a franchise entry. The production record has the full Cannes and release history. If a creature feature with something stranger underneath is your thing, our Disclosure Day guide covers another recent first-contact story, and everything else we track by release date is in our watch guides.