For those with a Hulu subscription, everyday can be “Huluween” with how many great horror movies are available to stream on the platform. With so many scary movies to choose from, we thought we would help narrow down your search with our choices for the absolute scariest and smartest thrillers available at the moment.
It Follows (2015)
After a disturbing sexual encounter, a young woman (played Maika Monroe) inherits a curse that makes her the target of a ruthless, shapeshifting entity only she can see.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Writer and director David Robert Mitchell introduced one of the scariest modern horror movie villains with his sophomore effort, It Follows – a visually striking, uniquely crafted, and thoroughly unsettling thriller that has a follow-up called They Follow in the works.
Saw (2004)
Two strangers (played by Cary Elwes and co-writer Leigh Whannell) wake up to find themselves trapped in a dirty, old bathroom where their unseen captor forces them to play a deadly game.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Whannell and director James Wan became instant horror icons with the first installment of the Saw movies, which is surprisingly light on gore when compared to the sequels, but high on subversive suspense.
Split (2016)
Three teenage girls (played by Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, and Jessica Sula) are held captive by a man (played by James McAvoy) with Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Taylor-Joy further solidified herself as a great modern female horror movie actor with a great performance opposite an astonishing McAvoy in one of M. Night Shyamalan’s best movies, Split.
Dog Soldiers (2002)
A seemingly routine mission for a group of British soldiers turns sour when they find themselves hunted by half-human, half-animal creatures in Scotland.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Before he released The Descent, writer and director Neil Marshall made a striking debut with Dog Soldiers – a now classic werewolf movie.
I Saw The Devil (2010)
A South Korean NIS agent (played by Lee Byung-hun) hunts down the cannibalistic cab driver (played by Min-sik Choi) who killed his fiancée and puts him through a series of torturous circumstances.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: In addition to being one of the most gripping Asian horror movies of its time, director Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw the Devil is one of most chilling revenge movies of all time.
Stream I Saw the Devil on Hulu.
Scream (2022)
Past and present citizens of Woodsboro come together to face a new killer donning the mask of Ghostface.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Radio Silence inherited the Scream movies franchise with a fun, satisfyingly clever, star-studded “requel” that the late Wes Craven would have been proud of.
The Omen Movies (1976-2024)
A series of increasingly terrifying and world-threatening circumstances arises after an American ambassador (played by Gregory Peck) and his wife (played by Lee Remick) after he passes off a boy offered to him by a priest as his own son.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Relive all of the scariest deaths from the Omen franchise by streaming the whole franchise on Hulu – including the well-received 2024 prequel, The First Omen.
Stream The Omen movies on Hulu.
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
The continuing struggles of the Abbott Family – some of the most resourceful characters in horror movies – in a world overrun with vicious, man-eating, sound-detecting aliens.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: John Krasinski returns to write and direct the second chapter of the A Quiet Place universe, A Quiet Place Part II, which could be considered a perfect sequel for its intriguing expansion of the lore and spine-tingling tension.
Stream A Quiet Place Part II on Hulu.
Splinter (2008)
A young, vacationing couple (played by Jill Wagner and Paulo Costanzo) are taken hostage by an escaped convict (played by Shea Wigham), but then must join forces with him to survive against a strange, manipulative parasite.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: With a cleverly constructed plot, high-wire suspense, and intense moments of body horror, director Toby Wilkins’ Splinter is a criminally underrated creepfest that will, to quote the tagline, “get under your skin.”
Escape Room (2019)
Six strangers are invited to participate in an immersive, puzzling challenge for a prize, only to discover that the consequences are deadly.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Any frustrations you may have faced when participating in a real-life escape room will seem like nothing compared to the horrors our protagonists face in director Adam Robitel’s surprisingly fun nail-biter.
Titane (2021)
The story of a go-go dancer (played by Agathe Rousselle) whose life has been strangely affected by the cranial implant she received after suffering a car accident years earlier and a fire chief (played by Vincent Lindon) whose unexpected reunion with his long-lost son is met with even more surprising circumstances.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: From French writer and director Julia Ducournau, Titane is a strikingly unique and deeply unsettling thriller that won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.
V/H/S (2012)
A group of thieves bear witness to some strange footage while searching for a valuable video cassette tape in a decrepit house.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: The first installment of the V/H/S franchise is a blistering, increasingly terrifying blend of found footage thrillers and anthology horror movies from filmmakers including Adam Wingard, Ti West, and Radio Silence.
Prey (2022)
A Comanche (played by Amber Midthunder) takes on her biggest hunting challenge yet when she discovers a cunning, hulking creature from another planet on her tribe’s land in the 18th Century.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: By setting the story centuries in the past and casting a talent like Midthunder in the lead, director Dan Trachtenberg, arguably, delivered the best Predator movie since the 1987 original with Prey.
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
A sheriff (played by Kurt Russell in one of his most badass roles), his deputy (played by Richard Jenkins), an injured rancher (played by Patrick Wilson), and a cocky gunman (played by Matthew Fox) set out to find the local doctor (played by Lili Simmons) – also the rancher’s wife – who has been kidnapped by a tribe of cannibals in the Old West.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Writer and director S. Craig Zahler pulls off one of the best Western movies of its time (and one of the all-time most terrifying) with Bone Tomahawk, which also boasts one of the scariest horror movie scenes in recent memory.
Enys Men (2022)
A wildlife volunteer (played by Mary Woodvine) begins to lose her grip on reality while researching a plant on a Cornish island in 1973.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Pronounced “ennis mane,” Enys Men is a dizzying surrealist nightmare from writer and director S. Mark Jenkin.
Mandy (2018)
After losing the love of his life (played by Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough) to a deadly cult, a lumberjack (played by Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage) is driven to go on a bloody rampage in the early 1980s.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Featuring one of the most beautifully unhinged Cage performances, writer and director Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy is an instant revenge movie classic that converts the unearthly world of a heavy metal album cover to celluloid.
Willy’s Wonderland (2022)
To pay off repairs to his car, a nameless, wordless drifter (played by Nicolas Cage) takes an overnight job cleaning up a closed down family entertainment center inhabited by goofy animatronic characters that turn out to be alive and hungry.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: While the plot sounds eerily similar to that of the Five Nights at Freddy’s video games and its film adaptation, writer G.O. Parsons claims he conceived the idea for the gloriously campy B-movie, Willy’s Wonderland, before the game became popular, and the result is an absolute blast featuring a badass Nic Cage.
Stream Willy’s Wonderland on Hulu.
Alien (1979)
A commercial space freighter crew intercepts a distress signal that leads them to make a bizarre discovery that could endanger them all.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Before the slasher genre really began to take off, director Ridley Scott incorporated some of its traditional elements into Alien – a classic space movie dripping with intense, creature feature suspense.
The Babadook (2015)
A single mother (played by Essie Davis) becomes convinced that she and her son (played by Noah Wiseman) are being haunted by a sinister storybook character.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Writer and director Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook is a thoroughly, viscerally traumatic experience and is also a horror movie that addresses grief in cleverly symbolic ways.
Day Of The Dead (1985)
A group of military officers and scientific researchers struggle to figure out how to survive the ongoing apocalypse – and each other – while stationed together in an underground bunker.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: The third installment of George A. Romero’s long-running series of zombie movies, Day of the Dead, has some of the franchise’s most eye-popping special effects and thought-provoking social commentary.
Stream Day of the Dead on Hulu.
No One Will Save You (2023)
A young woman (played by Kaitlyn Dever) finds her quiet, isolated existence uprooted by the intrusion of dangerous visitors from another planet.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Dever gives one of her best performances yet in writer and director Brian Duffield’s ingenious, tautly crafted, nearly dialogue-free take on the alien invasion movie that may have you perplexed by the No One Will Save You ending, but still ultimately satisfied.
Stream No One Will Save You on Hulu.
Skinamarink (2022)
A young boy (played by Lucas Paul) and his sister (played by Dali Rose Tetreault) wake up to find themselves trapped inside their own house with their parents nowhere to be found, but they soon discover they are not alone.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Writer and director Kyle Edward Ball demonstrates a distinct talent for recreating the authentic aura of a nightmare in his feature debut, Skinamarink – a highly experimental indie horror flick that may not be for everybody, but is undeniably unique.
Fresh (2022)
A young woman (played Daisy Edgar-Jones) thinks she has found the man of her dreams (played Sebastian Stan) until his true intentions for her are revealed.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: A movie that takes the already anxiety-inducing concept of modern dating into an intriguingly subversive and disturbingly cautionary direction is the Hulu exclusive, Fresh, which is already among the finest horror movies created by women — namely first-time director Mimi Cave and writer Lauryn Kahn.
There are also many great horror TV shows on Hulu, which means fans of the genre who subscribe to the platform should have no problem getting a good scare as much as they want, anytime that they want.
