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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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