There’s a dearth of compelling new movies at the theaters this week. Fortunately, Hulu has a stellar library full of hits, classics and everything in between.
Watch With Us prefers to spotlight under-the-radar films, and there are three criminally underrated movies on Hulu you should watch this weekend.
The indie hit The Brothers McMullen is a heartwarming coming-of-age story for grown-ups, while The Sessions is a compelling drama about the need for love.
Finally, the 2013 remake of Evil Dead is pure horror cinema, complete with severed body parts, scary demons and some very aggressive tree limbs.
‘Evil Dead’ (2013)
Remaking a horror classic can be a thankless task — just ask Gus Van Sant, whose 1998 redo of Psycho almost killed his career. That’s why the 2013 version of Evil Dead is so impressive — it’s a remake that keeps what worked in the 1981 original and adds new elements that make it just different enough to feel new and appealing.
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Five friends venture deep into the woods to stay at a secluded cabin. Once there, they discover it’s been broken into, with only a double-barreled shotgun, some rotting cat corpses and an ancient book called Naturom Demonto. This being a horror film, someone recites an enchantment from it that awakens a supernatural entity that possesses the lead protagonist, Mia (Jane Levy), and terrorizes the others. Will anyone make it out alive?
What makes Evil Dead so effective is that it’s not explicitly tied to all the movies that came before it. Director Fede Álvarez lets the blood and viscera fly, and the cast look and sound appropriately horrified to be vomited upon, stabbed, blown up and worse. This Evil Dead is a wild ride, and one of the few remakes to honor its source material while carving out its own gory path.
Evil Dead is streaming on Hulu.
‘The Sessions’ (2013)
Mark O’Brien (True Detective: Night Country‘s John Hawkes) is a 38-year-old poet who has never had sex. There’s a good reason for that — he’s been confined to an iron lung due to having polio when he was a child. Thinking he might be near death, he hires a professional sex surrogate, Cheryl (Helen Hunt), for six sessions designed to help him achieve his last wish. But as the sessions progress, Mark and Cheryl develop real feelings for each other, which complicates Mark’s professional life and Cheryl’s relationship with her husband. Can Mark stop his sessions with Cheryl even though they’ve given him a new reason to live?
Part of what makes The Sessions so absorbing is that it’s based on real-life people. Mark O’Brien was a real person, and he really did hire someone to help him have sex. With this context in mind, what could’ve been an outlandish premise transforms into something more meaningful and moving. Hawkes is terrific as the still-vibrant Mark, while Hunt does career-best work as the sex therapist who becomes too emotionally attached to her client. The Sessions is a subtle drama that respects its characters and tells a story that’s honest, intimate and rewarding.
The Sessions is streaming on Hulu.
‘The Brothers McMullen’ (1995)
Barry McMullen’s (Edward Burns) life is at a crossroads. His dad just died, his mother is moving to Ireland to reunite with her childhood sweetheart and the apartment he wants to rent is snagged at the last minute by a beautiful stranger, Audrey (Maxine Bahns). He moves in with his brothers, Patrick (Mike McGlone) and Jack (Jack Mulcahy), who are just as messed up as he is. The siblings all face romantic woes, but will their unexpected living arrangement help them find the key to succeeding at love that has always eluded them?
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The Brothers McMullen was an indie hit in the mid-’90s, grossing nearly $20 million off a minuscule $25,000 budget and launching the careers of writer/director Burns and costar Connie Britton as Jack’s fed-up wife. It’s easy to see why audiences embraced this movie — it’s a small-scale drama that feels like a slice of life. It’s romantic without being gooey and comedic without being too broad.
The Brothers McMullen is streaming on Hulu.
