The Best Horror Movies On Hulu

David Dastmalchian as Jack Delroy in Late Night with the Devil.
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If you and your significant other are planning on staying in for Valentine’s Day and your idea of a great date night is getting scared together, I recommend checking out some of the great horror movies on Hulu – one of the best streaming services to subscribe to if you are a fan of the genre. Beware: a Hulu subscription provides many a thriller to choose from, so allow me to help narrow down your search with my picks for the absolute best horror movies on Hulu as of February 2025.

Xenomorph attacks in Alien: Romulus

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Alien: Romulus (2024)

Director: Fede Álvarez

Starring: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson

What it’s about: A group of impoverished twenty-somethings plan to steal from an abandoned space station, only to make a deadly discovery.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: With special effects that earned a 2025 Oscar nomination, engaging characters, and relentless and brutal wall-to-wall thrills, Alien: Romulus is one of the best Alien movies yet.

The first Insidious

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Insidious (2011)

Director: James Wan

Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne

What it’s about: After their son mysteriously falls into a coma-like state, a family begins to experience horrific, unexplainable events.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: From writer Leigh Whannell, Insidious introduces a clever twist on the haunted house movie subgenre, complete with some indelibly frightening imagery.

Margaret praying for salvation in The First Omen.

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The First Omen (2024)

Director: Arkasha Stevenson

Starring: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson

What it’s about: A young American nun discovers a terrifying conspiracy while serving in Rome.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Taking place before the events of the original Omen movie, The First Omen was one of the biggest surprises of 2024 with terrifying, stomach-churning thrills.

Hunter Schafer stars as Gretchen in Cuckoo.

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Cuckoo (2024)

Director: Tilman Singer

Starring: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens

What it’s about: An American teenager becomes embroiled in a mystery of otherworldly circumstances after her family moves her to a German resort.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Featuring one of Dan Stevens’ best scene-stealing horror movie performances and a stunning lead performance by Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo is a creepy, funny, bewildering, and ultimately one-of-a-kind experience.

Alexander Skarsgard and Mia Goth wearing masks in Infinity Pool

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Infinity Pool (2023)

Director: Brandon Cronenberg

Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth

What it’s about: A writer on vacation at a seemingly idyllic coastal nation discovers an unusual legal loophole that allows him to get away with anything.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Brandon Cronenberg continues to prove that he has one of the most creative minds in the horror genre today with the deeply unsettling Infinity Pool.

David Dastmalchian in Late Night with the Devil

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Late Night With The Devil (2024)

Director: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes

Starring: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon

What it’s about: A late night talk show host attempts to boost his ratings with an ill-fated special Halloween episode.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Framed as a recording of a live 1977 broadcast, Late Night with the Devil is one of David Dastmalchian’s best movies for his career-best performance and its fun, ghoulish surprises.

Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate

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Immaculate (2024)

Director: Michael Mohan

Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte

What it’s about: A young American nun, at first, believes it is a miracle that she has mysteriously conceived a child until nightmarish revelations about her pregnancy come to light.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Sydney Sweeney also produces and gives a strong performance in Immaculate – a titillating take on the pregnancy horror subgenre with a hellishly wild ending.

Georgina Campbell in Barbarian at door of attic

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Barbarian (2022)

Director: Zach Cregger

Starring: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long

What it’s about: A mistakenly double-booked AirBNB eventually turns out to be the least worrisome thing about a Detroit house a man and woman are forced to share.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: With an intriguing hook and an increasingly horrifying and subversive plotline, Barbarian was one of the horror genre’s greatest surprises from 2022, especially as a thriller from The Whitest Kids U’Know member Zach Cregger.

James Badge Dale in The Empty Man

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The Empty Man (2020)

Director: David Prior

Starring: James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland

What it’s about: A former cop’s search for his friend’s missing daughter leads him to uncover an unspeakable conspiracy.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: Loosely inspired by a graphic novel from Cullen Bunn, The Empty Man is a recent horror movie that flew under the radar but is absolutely worth your time for its deliciously creepy aura and unique story.

Caitlin Stasey in Smile

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Smile (2022)

Director: Parker Finn

Starring: Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner

What it’s about: After witnessing a distressing event, a psychiatrist becomes attached to a metaphysical entity that taunts her with its horrid grin.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: There are other movies like Smile but that is no reason to miss out on Parker Finn’s relentlessly unnerving, thought-provoking meditation on trauma, especially if CinemaBlend’s raving Smile 2 review gets you interested in the follow-up.

Agathe Rousselle in Titane

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Titane (2021)

Director: Julia Ducournau

Starring: Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon

What it’s about: The story of a go-go dancer who received a cranial implant after suffering a car accident years earlier and a fire chief, whose unexpected reunion with his long-lost son is met with surprising circumstances.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: The French-language thriller, Titane, is a strikingly unique and deeply unsettling thriller that won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.

Amber Midthunder at the end of Prey

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Prey (2022)

Director: Dan Trachtenberg

Starring: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro

What it’s about: A Comanche 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 Amber Midthunder in the lead, Dan Trachtenberg, arguably, delivered the best Predator movie since the 1987 original with Prey.

Mary Woodvine in Enys Men

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Enys Men (2022)

Director: S. Mark Jenkin

Starring: Mary Woodvine

What it’s about: A wildlife volunteer who 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.

Nicolas Cage in Willy's Wonderland

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Willy’s Wonderland (2022)

Director: Kevin Lewis

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta

What it’s about: To pay off repairs to his car, a nameless, wordless drifter 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.

Kaitlyn Dever hides under a bed in No One Will Save You

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No One Will Save You (2023)

Director: Brian Duffield

Starring: Kaitlyn Dever

What it’s about: Brynn 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: Kaitlyn Dever gives one of her best performances yet in this 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.

Phone from Skinamarink

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Skinamarink (2022)

Director: Kyle Edward Ball

Starring: Lucas Paul, Dali Rose Tetreault

What it’s about: A young boy and his sister wake up to find themselves trapped inside their own house with their father nowhere to be found, but they soon discover they are not alone.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Hulu: 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.

Daisy-Edgar Jones and Sebastian Stan in Fresh

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Fresh (2022)

Director: Mimi Cave

Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan

What it’s about: Noa thinks she has found the man of her dreams in Steve 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.

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Jason Wiese
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Jason Wiese writes feature stories for CinemaBlend. His occupation results from years dreaming of a filmmaking career, settling on a "professional film fan" career, studying journalism at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO (where he served as Culture Editor for its student-run print and online publications), and a brief stint of reviewing movies for fun. He would later continue that side-hustle of film criticism on TikTok (@wiesewisdom), where he posts videos on a semi-weekly basis. Look for his name in almost any article about Batman.

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