The Best Modern Horror Movies on Hulu Right Now (November 2026)

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Hulu doesn’t get enough credit as a horror destination. Between its Searchlight titles and Hulu originals, it quietly hosts some of the best scary movies of the last fifteen years. These are the best modern horror movies on Hulu right now, all released from 2010 on and pulled straight from my rankings of the best horror movies of the 2020s and the best horror movies of the 2010s. You’ll find favorites like The Substance, Hereditary and Nosferatu, plus a handful of deeper cuts worth adding to your watchlist. Every pick is streaming in the U.S. right now, and I’ll keep the list updated as titles come and go. For the latest releases, see my roundup of new horror movies.

THE SUBSTANCE (2024)

🍅89%Critics🍿76%Audience⭐7.2IMDb

A fired aerobics star injects a black-market serum that spawns a younger self, and the two have to split every week between them. She doesn’t just regain her glow, she loses herself piece by horrifying piece to the version she thought she wanted. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley are phenomenal, and their fearless performances are the film’s highlight.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

HEREDITARY (2018)

🍅90%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

The death of a controlling matriarch sparks the implosion of a family unit in this horrifying study of grief amidst supernatural angst. Toni Collette was robbed. Heads should roll. Ari Aster’s debut is a grief-soaked nightmare, and Toni Collette’s ferocious performance is one of the great horror turns of all time.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

NOSFERATU (2024)

🍅85%Critics🍿73%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

With Nosferatu, Robert Eggers conjures a gothic horror that feels both timeless and daringly fresh. A masterful blend of craft, performance, and atmosphere, it’s a haunting reimagining that lingers like a shadow you can’t escape, an instant horror classic.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Every Robert Eggers Movie, Ranked

PEARL (2022)

🍅93%Critics🍿83%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

A farm girl in 1918 auditions for a dance troupe as her escape and murders her way toward it. She thinks she can hide her budding psychopathy behind a Hollywood-worthy performance. The trouble is she’s not all that great an actor.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

BARBARIAN (2022)

🍅92%Critics🍿70%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

A woman arrives at a double-booked Detroit rental at night, and the man already inside offers her the only bedroom with a lock and opens the wine in front of her to prove nothing’s in it. Part Don’t Breathe, part Wrong Turn, and it rules.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

HOKUM (2026)

🍅90%Critics🍿82%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

Damian McCarthy returns to Irish folk horror, recruiting Adam Scott for his first proper venture into the genre to tell a witches-and-ghosts tale that’s rich with atmosphere, if short on novelty (ironic for a horror movie about an author).▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

TOGETHER (2025)

🍅89%Critics🍿75%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

A twisted, tactile meditation on love, compromise, and the bodily cost of staying too close for too long, brought to life by Michael Shanks’ sharp direction and a pair of knockout performances from Alison Brie and Dave Franco. Together, they make the film’s grotesque intimacy feel oddly, disturbingly relatable.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE MENU (2022)

🍅88%Critics🍿76%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

A riotous dark satire that uses the upper echelon of the food world to skewer class warfare, with Ralph Fiennes delivering an icy tour-de-force as a mesmerizing, disturbed chef at the end of his rope. Full of twists and full-bellied laughs, consider it a dish that should be consumed immediately.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

PREY (2022)

🍅94%Critics🍿74%Audience⭐4.4IMDb

Amber Midthunder plays a young Comanche hunter who has to prove herself against the most dangerous game imaginable in 1719. Dan Trachtenberg strips the Predator franchise back to its survival roots, and it is the best entry since the original.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

X (2022)

🍅94%Critics🍿76%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

Ti West sends a crew of amateur adult filmmakers to an elderly couple’s farm in 1979 Texas, where their hosts turn out to have very different appetites. Mia Goth pulls double duty in a grimy, gorgeous tribute to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre that has its own morbid things to say about aging, desire, and being left behind.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

COMPANION (2025)

🍅93%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

A weekend at a lake house where one guest turns out to be a rented robot girlfriend with an adjustable personality setting. Always thought the fembot movie would be hornier.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025)

🍅96%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

A confident, stomach-churning debut that cements Emilie Blichfeldt as a thrilling new voice in horror. Fairytale whimsy and grotesque body horror collide in a nightmarish fable about the violence of beauty standards, anchored by a breakout performance from Lea Myren.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)

🍅80%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

Colony kids board a derelict station to steal cryo-pods and find the facehugger breeding program still running. The best Alien since Cameron’s Aliens, back to horror roots and practical effects, though one legacy character is resurrected with VFX sorcery that’s truly hard to take.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review · Every Alien Movie, Ranked

LONGLEGS (2024)

🍅85%Critics🍿61%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

Oz Perkins delivers another sinister vision of the occult in taut, skin-crawling Longlegs. Maika Monroe is excellent as a nervy, kinda-clairvoyant FBI agent, while Nicolas Cage creeps as the eponymous killer but is not always an additive force. While never outright terrifying, this deliberately-paced supernatural horror film is dripping with atmosphere and tension.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

HERETIC (2024)

🍅89%Critics🍿76%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

Two Mormon missionaries knock on the wrong door and end up in a theology debate with Hugh Grant that turns into a labyrinth. Grant is having the time of his life as a charming, chatty monster, and the first hour is as tense as anything in modern horror.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

MAXXXINE (2024)

🍅73%Critics🍿73%Audience⭐6.2IMDb

Maxine survived the Texas farm and is now chasing a B-movie break through the 1985 Video Nasty panic, with the Night Stalker working the same streets. One thing remains certain: Mia Goth is a fucking star.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

WOLF MAN (2025)

🤢47%Critics🍿54%Audience⭐5.6IMDb

A father drives his family to his own childhood farmhouse in Oregon and gets bitten on the way in, then transforms across one night while they watch. Whannell is the modern maestro of Universal Monsters. Reinforced my desire to never get rabies.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

FRESH (2022)

🍅82%Critics🍿80%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

A dating-app match sweeps a woman off to a weekend house, then reveals he sells human meat to wealthy clients and she is inventory. American Psycho and Martyrs on a meat-cute, giving new meaning to “eating butt.” Daisy Edgar-Jones and a gleefully unhinged Sebastian Stan turn a modern-dating nightmare into a cannibal horror-comedy with real bite.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

FRIGHT NIGHT (2011)

🍅72%Critics🍿59%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

A sexy vampire next door (Colin Farrell in rare cheeseball form) wants to take a bite out of the suspicious neighbor in this tongue-in-cheek remake of the 1985 cult classic. Colin Farrell is a blast as the predatory vampire next door, and David Tennant steals scenes as a Vegas magician turned reluctant expert.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU (2023)

🍅82%Critics🍿56%Audience⭐6.2IMDb

Kaitlyn Dever lives alone in a too-quiet house when aliens come calling, and there is almost no dialogue in the entire movie. Brian Duffield turns that gimmick into a lean, inventive home-invasion thriller carried by Dever’s terrific physical performance.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

THE MONKEY (2025)

🍅77%Critics🍿55%Audience⭐5.9IMDb

A wind-up toy monkey kills someone at random every time its drum gets struck, which Oz Perkins plays entirely for grisly slapstick. Not Longlegs eerie, but a full-tilt grindhouse descent with its own deranged drum.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

RUN (2020)

🍅88%Critics🍿73%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

A teenager who uses a wheelchair starts to suspect her devoted mother is keeping her sick on purpose. Sarah Paulson is terrifying as the mom from hell, and Aneesh Chaganty keeps the twists coming at a clip that never lets up.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

ODDITY (2024)

🍅96%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

A blind antique dealer moves a life-size wooden man into her dead twin’s house and waits. Doles out breadcrumbs at a healthy pace, and McCarthy’s sinister streak will delight anyone craving a scare. Damian Mc Carthy’s Irish chiller is built on precise, patient scares, and its wooden mannequin is one of the creepiest horror props around.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

DANGEROUS ANIMALS (2025)

🍅87%Critics🍿74%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

A serial killer runs a shark cage tour and feeds his victims over the side, until he takes a surfer who fights. No species is harder to hunt than man, and he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Jai Courtney plays a serial killer who feeds his victims to sharks, and Sean Byrne turns that absurd premise into a lean, nasty survival thriller.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

40 ACRES (2025)

🍅89%Critics🍿94%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

In a famine-wrecked near future, a Black Canadian farming family led by Danielle Deadwyler defends its land from roving cannibals. R.T. Thorne’s debut is lean, mean survival horror with a matriarch you would not want to cross, and Deadwyler makes every hard choice land.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

SEND HELP (2026)

🍅92%Critics🍿86%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

A woman and the boss who made her life hell wash up on a desert island, where she is the only one with survival skills. Raimi is mostly back. O’Brien is a convincingly smug douche and McAdams is electrifying as the capable one.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE POPE’S EXORCIST (2023)

🤢50%Critics🍿80%Audience⭐6.1IMDb

Russell Crowe rides a Vespa through Spain as Father Amorth, taking on a pig-demon squatting inside an abandoned abbey. Much better once it stops being a possession movie and becomes straight up Indiana Jones. Russell Crowe has a blast as a scooter-riding Vatican exorcist in a gleefully over-the-top possession movie.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

FALSE POSITIVE (2021)

🤢46%Critics🍿20%Audience⭐4.6IMDb

A fertility clinic gives a woman the pregnancy she wanted and a doctor who keeps telling her she’s imagining things. Juicy performances (Glazer! Theroux! Brosnan!) and half-baked thoughts on patriarchy versus mommy brain. Half a star for that lasting final image.▶︎ Watch on Hulu

Want more? See the full ranking of the best horror movies of the 2020s.

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What’s the scariest movie on Hulu right now?

If you want pure terror, start with Hereditary, followed by Barbarian and Longlegs. Hereditary remains the most traumatizing horror film of the last decade.

What are the best horror movies on Hulu?

By my ranking, the best modern horror movies on Hulu right now are The Substance (2024), Hereditary (2018) and Nosferatu (2024).

How often is this list updated?

Every couple of weeks. I re-check Hulu’s catalog regularly, adding new arrivals and removing anything that has left the service.

What are the best non-horror movies on Hulu?

For my picks across every genre, see The Best Movies on Hulu Right Now.

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