3 Great Hulu Movies You Need to Stream This Weekend (December 20-22)

If you’ve been keeping an eye on your calendars, you’ll know that this is the penultimate weekend of 2024, and the last before Christmas. While you may need to do some last-minute shopping or run errands, Hulu has plenty of movies to keep you entertained when you get home. If you’re feeling particularly festive, you might want to catch it best Christmas movies on Huluone of which also landed on our list of the three big Hulu movies you need to stream this weekend.

Our first pick of the week is an underrated horror film that hit theaters earlier this year, followed by one of our favorite Christmas movies, as well as Hugh Jackman’s biggest musical yet.

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Cuckoo (2024)

If you know what a cuckoo bird is, then you might have an idea why the horror movie Cuckoo share the same name. But it’s best to come into this movie cold and unsure of what’s going on, just like Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), the teenage girl at the heart of the story. Having recently lost her mother, Gretchen is forced to move to the German Alps with her father, Luis (Marton Csokas), her stepmother, Beth (Jessica Henwick), and her half-sister, Alma (Mila Lieu).

Alma is mute, and therefore cannot explain why a strange sound causes her seizures. But Gretchen realizes something sinister is going on around them, centering on her father’s boss, Herr König (Dan Stevens), as well as a hooded woman who leaves something unexpected in her wake.

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

The irony of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation becoming a holiday classic is that it’s not a traditionally heartwarming movie, and it never tried to be. Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) went a little crazy in the first Vacation movie, but he’s much better now. And this year, Clark is determined to give his wife, Ellen (Beverly D’Angelo), and their children, Audrey (Juliette Lewis) and Rusty (Johnny Galecki), a great Christmas experience. He probably would have done that too if parents-in-law from both sides of the family hadn’t come to their home.

The most outrageous vacationer is Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid), who is technically the husband of Ellen’s cousin, Catherine (Miriam Flynn). Eddie just brings an extra level of chaos to the household and he has an unfortunate tendency to take things too literally. It may come back to haunt Clark sooner than he thinks.

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The Greatest Showman (2017)

About seven years before he reprized his iconic Marvel role in Deadpool and WolverineHugh Jackman starred in The greatest showmanthe holiday musical sensation of 2017. The film casts Jackman as PT Barnum, a man whose big dreams simply cannot be contained. As his humble life crumbles, Barnum slowly assembles a circus of acrobats, freaks and wonders.

Barnum’s partner, Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), soon realizes that he only has eyes for Anne Wheeler (Zendaya), one of the best performers in the circus. But despite their shared feelings, the 19th century does not offer much tolerance for their interracial romance. There’s potential heartbreak ahead, but also soaring musical numbers that make this 20th Century Fox film feel more like a live-action Disney movie than anything else.

Clock The greatest showman on Hulu.