3 Must-Watch Hulu Movies This Weekend (April 17–19), Including Shelby Oaks

Hulu gets a lot of love for volume, but not enough for range. If you want a quick tour of just how all-over-the-map the catalog is, here are three weekend watches that could not be more different. All hover around that two-hour sweet spot, all are worth your time, and all are streaming on Hulu right now.

Shelby Oaks (2025 )

File this under: spooky, ambitious, and a little messy in a way horror fans will still appreciate. Written and directed by YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Chris Stuckmann, this one leans hard into found-footage. The setup: four YouTubers vanish after poking around the supposedly dead town of Shelby Oaks. No answers, no leads… until a camera turns up with their final night on it. That tape becomes the obsession of Mia (Camille Sullivan), whose sister Riley (Sarah Durn) is one of the missing. Watching it might blow up Mia's marriage, and maybe her life, but she presses play anyway.

Once that footage starts unspooling, a demonic cult appears to be in the mix, and the movie goes for broke. The mood work is strong — a stretch in an abandoned prison is especially skin-crawling — and the faux-shaky digital camerawork feels uncomfortably authentic. It also tries to be a lot of things at once: modern Rosemary's Baby paranoia, Blair Witch-style dread, and a dash of grief horror in the Hereditary lane. It does not hit all those targets cleanly, but the scares land often enough to make it a solid night-with-the-lights-off watch.

Shelby Oaks is streaming on Hulu.

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

Before he was Captain America, Chris Evans was very good at playing a beautiful doofus. Case in point: this early-2000s parody that throws jokes at the wall with a hit-to-miss ratio that still nets plenty of big laughs a quarter-century later.

Evans plays Jake Wyler, the human embodiment of the popular-jock stereotype: heart of gold, rocks for brains. He crosses paths with Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh), the 'ugly duckling' who turns into a swan the second she ditches her glasses and loosens the ponytail. Their maybe-romance has hurdles, including Jake's aggressively horny sister and — of course — a secret bet to turn Janey into prom royalty.

Plot is not the point. This is a delivery system for riffs on teen staples like American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait, and 10 Things I Hate About You. Because those movies still live rent-free in our heads, the gags click: Evans strutting around in only whipped cream and a strategically placed banana, football bits that cheekily nudge Varsity Blues — it is broad, it is dumb, and Evans is very funny in a lane he does not visit much anymore. More of this from him would not hurt.

Not Another Teen Movie is streaming on Hulu.

Micki & Maude (1984)

This is a full-on screwball comedy with a premise that would set Twitter on fire today, which is part of its charm. Reporter Rob (Dudley Moore) adores his high-powered attorney wife Micki (Ann Reinking), but he wants a baby and she is not eager to pump the brakes on her career. Enter Maude (Amy Irving), a cellist who makes Rob feel seen — and then makes him a father-to-be. Rob plans to come clean and divorce Micki, but before he can, she announces she is pregnant too and keeping the baby. His solution is, uh, bigamy. What could possibly go wrong?

The movie works because Moore plays Rob as a lovesick mess who sincerely wants to keep everyone happy, even as his lies do the opposite. If you can roll with a flawed guy at the center and suspend a healthy amount of disbelief, the payoffs are plentiful — culminating in a gloriously chaotic, packed delivery-room finale that still kills.

Micki & Maude is streaming on Hulu.