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Start the new year off with a frightening flick.
Hulu is packed with great horror films. Before we list the streaming service’s absolute best options, let’s cover some worthy alternatives.
Hulu is home to Zach Cregger’s Barbarian (2022) and Fede Álvarez’s Don’t Breathe (2016). There’s also the post-apocalyptic horror movie 28 Weeks Later (2007), slasher Thanksgiving (2023) and romance-gone-wrong Fresh (2022). Finally, you should check out The Ugly Stepsister (2025), The Host (2006), A Quiet Place Part II (2020) and Bone Tomahawk (2015), starring Kurt Russell.
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Now, on to a roundup of the best horror movies on Hulu.
This wild, disturbing dark comedy is upping Hulu’s horror game. Together stars real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco as a pair in a years-long relationship. A move from the city to the country introduces chilling body horror.
- Director: Michael Shanks
- Stars: Dave Franco, Alison Brie
- Runtime: 102 mins
If you count incredibly capable, invisible killing machines as scary, you may be watching some of the scenes in Prey through your fingers. This addition to the Predator franchise takes place in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago and centers on a young warrior named Naru. Watch this one for a compelling underdog story about a human determinedly fighting against a powerful alien.
- Director: Dan Trachtenberg
- Stars: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro
- Runtime: 99 mins
A seemingly made-up monster creeps more and more into the lives of a single mother and her young son in this critically acclaimed movie. The horror escalates after a haunting storybook turns up. The film is written and directed by Jennifer Kent, who also wrote and directed the 2018 thriller The Nightingale.
- Director: Jennifer Kent
- Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall
- Runtime: 94 mins
A teenage girl is viciously bullied at a local pool and then happens upon a stranger abducting her three tormentors. This gripping, Spanish-language movie is based on a short film and stars Laura Galán.
- Director: Carlota Pereda
- Stars: Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Claudia Salas
- Runtime: 99 mins
A possessed girl is a special guest on a 1977 talk show in this horror flick that gradually gets more intense. The film stars David Dastmalchian as Jack Delroy, a charismatic host who wants to boost his ratings. If you’re craving supernatural horror, stay seated for this terrifying Halloween special.
- Directors: Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes
- Stars: David Dastmalchian, Ingrid Torelli, Laura Gordon
- Runtime: 95 mins
This horror comedy adapts a Stephen King short story and revolves around estranged twin brothers (both played by White Lotus star Theo James) and an evil toy monkey. Directed by Osgood Perkins (Longlegs), the flick sees brutal deaths occur when the unsettling, drum-playing primate is around.
- Director: Osgood Perkins
- Stars: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery
- Runtime: 98 mins
This bleak thriller — the second film on this list from writer-director Osgood Perkins — delivers twists, haunting visuals and a highly unsettling villain. The flick follows a young FBI agent looking into multiple baffling family murders. Nicolas Cage stars as the sufficiently startling titular character.
- Director: Osgood Perkins
- Stars: Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood
- Runtime: 101 mins
Reserve your seat for this surreal psychological horror movie about a talented ballerina’s unraveling. Natalie Portman’s character Nina feels pressure to embody not only the innocent and elegant White Swan but the dark and sensual Black Swan for the leading part in a production of Swan Lake. But she doesn’t fit the latter swan’s mold as much as newcomer Lily (Mila Kunis). The film follows her obsessive hunt for perfection.
- Director: Darren Aronofsky
- Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel
- Runtime: 108 mins