The Best Modern Horror Movies on Hulu Right Now

Availability last updated October 12, 2026. Streaming libraries change monthly, so this list gets updated regularly.

In the mood for something other than horror? Here are the best movies on Hulu right now, all hand-picked from my reviews.

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.

THE SUBSTANCE (2024)

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)

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.▶ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

NOSFERATU (2024)

Eggers rebuilds Murnau out of mud, candlelight and a rotting Orlok who wants to be invited. I succame.▶ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

PEARL (2022)

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)

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

TOGETHER (2025)

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

MIDSOMMAR (2019)

Ari Aster returns with this sun-drenched nightmare epic about a dysfunctional couple who become entangled with a sunny Swedish murder-cult. Florence Pugh is terrific in the lead role.▶ Watch on Hulu · See it in my Top Ten of 2019

THE MENU (2022)

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)

A Comanche healer in 1719 tracks a Predator through the Northern Great Plains with a rope-tethered tomahawk. A.K.A. Comanche vs Predator.▶ Watch on Hulu

X (2022)

A porn crew rents a Texas farmhouse in 1979, and the elderly couple who own it want something the crew has.▶ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025)

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)

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

LONGLEGS (2024)

An FBI agent with a psychic streak works a case of family annihilations where the killer never enters the house. We literally never see how long his legs are.▶ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

HERETIC (2024)

Hugh Grant’s villain era is ripping.▶ Watch on Hulu

FRESH (2022)

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.”▶ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

FRIGHT NIGHT (2011)

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.▶ Watch on Hulu

NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU (2023)

A shunned young woman fights a home invasion by grey aliens across a film with almost no dialogue at all.▶ Watch on Hulu

RUN (2020)

A homeschooled wheelchair user starts reading the labels on the pills her mother gives her. Misery by way of Mommy Dead and Dearest.▶ Watch on Hulu

ODDITY (2024)

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.▶ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

THE BOOGEYMAN (2023)

A family in mourning gets a visitor that lives in closets and feeds on grief, which the surviving daughters can see and the therapist father cannot. Rob Savage tosses overcooked conventions in a blender and gets a fright fest that could fling you out of your seat.▶ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

DANGEROUS ANIMALS (2025)

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.▶ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review

40 ACRES (2025)

Decent little zombie movie, hold the zombies. Danielle Deadwyler is quite good.▶ Watch on Hulu

SEND HELP (2026)

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)

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.▶ Watch on Hulu

FALSE POSITIVE (2021)

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.