The 15 best films hitting Hulu in July 2022

In the mood for a ’90s slasher film? While 1996’s Scream reinvented the slasher film for a generation who loved self-aware, meta horror, is one of the more enjoyable movies that capitalized on Scream’s successful formula. In Urban Legend, a hooded killer is dispatching college students in a manner based on urban legends. The clever whodunit stars a young Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid, Loretta Devine, and cinema’s original Freddy Krueger, horror icon Robert Englund. The movie’s two sequels are also available this month on Hulu, but neither of them make the “must watch” cut.

Angela Bassett landed a Best Actress Oscar nomination—and should have won—for her electrifying performance as Tina Turner in this musical biopic that follows the star’s life from her start as a young Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her reinvention as Tina Turner and her comeback in the 1980s following a difficult divorce from her abusive husband, Ike. is still not available on Blu-ray in the United States, but you can at least stream it in HD on Hulu.

Aspects of the ’80s rom-com may seem laughably dated today—especially when Melanie Griffith’s Tess McGill character goes from Staten Island big hair to a “serious” business ’d0 but it’s still an enjoyable climbing-the-corporate-ladder fantasy. Tess is an ambitious secretary working in Manhattan who tries to take over for her boss (Sigourney Weaver) after the latter injures her leg in a ski accident. Harrison Ford plays the handsome businessman caught between the two ladies, while Joan Cusack shines as the extra New York hairdresser who gives Tess her more professional haircut.

, based on the animated series Bob’s Burgers, just premiered in theaters in May and is now available to stream on Hulu. The plot follows Bob and his family after a sinkhole opens in front of their business and affects their ability to pay back a loan. The film is dedicated to character designer Dave Creek and matte painter Denise Fuller, both of whom passed away before the film’s theatrical release.

This action-exploitation film directed by Jason Eisener is based on a faux trailer sandwiched between the two features in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse. The late Rutger Hauer stars as the titular hobo who reinvents himself as a vigilante after witnessing Hope Town’s out-of-control crime and ineffective police. wins the prize for Most Outrageous and Unapologetic Exploitation Film this July on Hulu.

If you’re itching to see a bunch of aging action-movie stars from various decades together onscreen, has you covered. This testosterone-overload action flick is directed by Sylvester Stallone stars Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren (Stallone’s on-screen nemesis in Rocky IV), Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Gary Daniels and Terry Crews. Stallone plays Barney Ross, the head of an elite group of mercenaries tasked with taking down a Latin American dictator. If you’re not exhausted after watching this movie, The Expendables 2 and 3 are also available on Hulu this month.

It’s summer … why so serious? Well, if you’re not interested in the typical summer popcorn fare, Hulu has the biopic for you starring Sean Penn as gay rights activist and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk. Penn earned a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the slain gay icon, and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.