Updated October 1, 2026. This is iHorror’s running guide to the best horror movies on Hulu, and we rebuild it every month rather than letting a two-year-old list rot at the top of a search result. Hulu gets the 20th Century, Searchlight and FX catalogs, A24 titles on a delay, and its own originals every October, so the shelf changes faster than most people notice.
Every title below was checked against September and October 2026 listings from Hulu’s own press schedule and guides, Rotten Tomatoes’ Hulu catalog, TV Guide, Parade and our own weekly streaming coverage. If we couldn’t confirm a film was actually on the service this month, it isn’t here. Picks are ours, not an algorithm’s. (Huluween is underway, and it opened with the M3GAN spinoff Soulm8te.)
Huluween brings the biggest batch of additions this page has had all year: Soulm8te and Barbarian on October 1, The Substance on the 2nd, both of Ari Aster’s A24 films on the 3rd, and Damian McCarthy’s Hokum on the 10th.
What’s New This Month
- Soulm8te (2026) opened Huluween on October 1, the first subscription home for the M3GAN spinoff.
- Barbarian (2022) arrived October 1, The Substance (2024) follows October 2, and Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019) land October 3.
- Hokum (2026), Damian McCarthy’s follow-up to Oddity, streams from October 10.
- Clown Panic, a Hulu Original documentary about the 2016 killer-clown sightings, premieres October 12 (trailer here).
- Companion (2025) and Wolf Man (2025) both arrive October 18.
- American Horror Story: 13 now runs two half-hour episodes every Thursday through the October 29 finale.
- Last month’s additions Heretic, Sinister and Jennifer’s Body have moved into The Essentials. On the way out: Bodies Bodies Bodies and the animated Resident Evil: Damnation and Vendetta left at the end of September, per departure lists.
New on Hulu This Month
Soulm8te (2026)
The first spinoff from the M3GAN universe took the long way to Hulu: dated for January theaters, pulled from the calendar, then sent to digital in August. Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother) directs from a script she wrote with Rafael Jordan, and Lily Sullivan of Evil Dead Rise leads a cast that includes David Rysdahl, in a story about a grieving engineer who tries to program a tech giant’s new android into a genuinely sentient soulmate. She develops needs of her own. Dolan’s debut was one of the best Irish horror films in years, which is reason enough to take this seriously. Our Huluween story has the whole release saga.
Barbarian (2022)
Zach Cregger’s debut came home to Hulu on October 1, which makes sense, since it was a 20th Century film all along. Georgina Campbell books a Detroit rental and finds Bill Skarsgård already inside, and where it goes from there is still the best rug-pull in recent horror. Justin Long’s mid-movie arrival turns it meaner and funnier at once. Go in blind if you somehow still can. With Resident Evil past $100 million domestic and Weapons behind him, this is the place to see where Cregger’s whole bag of tricks started.
The Substance (2024)
Streaming from: October 2, 2026
Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror satire moves to Hulu, and it might play even better at home, where you can pause and look away. Demi Moore’s fading fitness-TV star injects a black-market serum that births a younger self, played by Margaret Qualley, and the two are supposed to share the week. They do not. It is loud and obvious on purpose, it won the Oscar for makeup, and its New Year’s Eve finale is the most gleefully disgusting thing a Best Picture nominee has ever put on screen. The “reverse Carrie” sequence is still the scene people warn each other about.
Hereditary (2018)
Streaming from: October 3, 2026
Ari Aster’s debut starts as a family drama about a funeral and ends somewhere up in the attic, and the trip between the two is the most upsetting two hours A24 has ever released. Toni Collette’s dinner-table scene should have been an Oscar clip, and the moment on the dark road is the single cut people still bring up first. Midsommar lands the same day, the daylight answer to the same grief, played out in a Swedish meadow full of flower crowns. Watch Hereditary first. Aster wants you rattled before he gets to the maypole.
Hokum (2026)
Streaming from: October 10, 2026
Damian McCarthy’s third feature, after Caveat and Oddity, sends Adam Scott to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, where the staff swear a witch lives in the honeymoon suite. Visions follow, then a disappearance, then the part of his own past he came there to avoid. NEON opened it in May to $6.4 million and a Certified Fresh score, a real result for an Irish haunted-hotel picture with no franchise attached. McCarthy is very good at holding a shot until you cannot stand it, and this is the Hulu horror premiere to plan a night around. Our streaming-date story has the details.
The Essentials
Heretic (2024)
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods wrote and directed this one, and A24 put it in theaters in November 2024, so most of us have already argued about the ending. Two young Mormon missionaries knock on the wrong door and spend the night being lectured, tested and cornered by Hugh Grant, who plays the whole thing like a genial podcast host who happens to own a basement. It’s a talky movie that somehow never loosens its grip, and Grant’s performance is the reason. As we noted in our weekend picks, it hit Hulu on September 8 and is the easiest recommendation on the service right now.
Sinister (2012)
Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill’s Super 8 nightmare is back on Hulu as of September 1. Ethan Hawke plays a true-crime writer who moves his family into a murder house and finds a box of home movies in the attic, each one a family being killed in a new and creative way. The films-within-the-film are still the nastiest thing Blumhouse has ever put in a wide release, and Bughuul remains a great piece of monster design because the movie barely lets you look at him. A 2020 heart-rate study famously named it the scariest movie ever made. We wouldn’t go that far, but the attic footage earns the reputation.
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Karyn Kusama’s demon-cheerleader comedy was sold as a Megan Fox vehicle in 2009 and got buried for it. Fifteen-plus years later it’s the cult movie everyone claims they always liked. Fox plays Jennifer, a high school queen bee who gets possessed after a botched sacrifice by an indie band and starts eating her male classmates, while her best friend Needy tries to stop her. Diablo Cody’s script is funnier and meaner than the marketing ever let on, and the movie has real things to say about teenage friendship that curdles. It’s a September 1 addition and a perfect gateway pick for a Halloween party crowd that thinks it doesn’t like horror.
Longlegs (2024)
Osgood Perkins’ occult procedural was the horror event of summer 2024, thanks to a marketing campaign that planted fake crime-scene photos online and kept Nicolas Cage’s face out of every trailer. Maika Monroe plays an FBI agent with a bad feeling about a string of family murders that all point back to a Satanic killer, and Cage, in full falsetto and pancake makeup, delivers one of the strangest performances of his career. The trailer promised something scarier than the movie delivers, but judged on its own terms it’s a gorgeous, dread-soaked mood piece, and Cage singing the lullaby is worth the runtime alone.
Cuckoo (2024)
Tilman Singer drops Hunter Schafer into a resort in the Bavarian Alps with her father, her stepmother and a host, played by Dan Stevens, who is far too pleased to see them. What follows involves a shrieking woman in sunglasses, time that skips like a scratched record, and a creature-feature reveal that the movie refuses to over-explain. Our Fantasia review called it a blast of fear and mayhem, and Schafer has since become the final girl a lot of us wanted her to be. If you like your horror loud, strange and a little Euro-sleazy, this is the pick.
Nosferatu (2024)
Robert Eggers spent most of his career trying to make this movie and it shows in every candlelit frame. Bill Skarsgård’s Count Orlok is a rotting Carpathian warlord with a mustache, not a bald bat-man, and Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen is the film’s real engine, a woman whose desire and dread are the same thing. We talked to makeup designer David White about building Orlok’s body, and the movie made enough waves that PETA got involved over the rats. It’s the most handsome vampire movie in decades and the coldest.
Together (2025)
Michael Shanks’ body-horror breakout casts real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a pair whose relationship is dying on the vine until a night in a cave starts physically fusing them. The metaphor is not subtle. It doesn’t need to be, because the practical effects are gleefully wet and the two leads are game for anything, including a bathroom scene that’s going to live in your head. Neon bought it out of Sundance, and it later drew a plagiarism lawsuit that only added to the chatter.
The Monkey (2025)
Osgood Perkins’ other Hulu movie is the opposite of Longlegs: loud, splattery and openly comic. Twin brothers find their absent father’s wind-up toy monkey, and every time it beats its drum someone nearby dies in the most elaborate way the effects team could dream up. It’s adapted from the Stephen King short story in Skeleton Crew, but Perkins treats the source as a launch pad for a movie about the randomness of death and how badly families handle it. If Final Destination ever let itself be sad, it would look like this.
Ready or Not (2019)
This wedding-night hide-and-seek movie is the Searchlight title that turned Samara Weaving into a genre star. Grace marries into a board-game dynasty and learns on her wedding night that the family tradition involves hunting the new bride until dawn. The joke, and it’s a great one, is that these rich people are terrible at killing anyone; the maids keep catching the crossbow bolts. Weaving in a ripped wedding dress with a bandolier is one of the defining images of 2010s horror, and the ending still gets a cheer from any crowd.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett came back for the sequel, and so did Weaving, this time dragging her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) into a new game where four rival families fight for control of the Council’s High Seat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kevin Durand, Elijah Wood and, yes, David Cronenberg round out the cast. Our Blu-ray review found it bloated and wished it gave Gellar more to do, but also called Weaving the best final girl of her generation, and that holds. It’s messier than the original and still a better time than most 2026 studio horror.
Late Night with the Devil (2023)
Cameron and Colin Cairnes built a lost 1977 Halloween broadcast of a failing talk show, complete with ad breaks and backstage footage, and let David Dastmalchian carry it as host Jack Delroy, a man who will book a possessed teenager if it gets him a ratings win. The period detail is immaculate and the slow slide from kitsch to carnage is expertly paced. We reviewed it at Fantasia and called it one of the best horror films of its year, and the final ten minutes still play like a dare. Keep an eye on the background; there are hidden images most people miss.
Alien: Romulus (2024)
Fede Alvarez set his entry between Alien and Aliens and made the franchise scary again by going small: a crew of young scavengers board an abandoned ship looking for a way off their colony and find the facehuggers instead. The third act swings big in a way that split fans. Early reactions were strong for a reason. This is the 20th Century deal working exactly as intended.
Dangerous Animals (2025)
Sean Byrne, who gave us The Loved Ones, finally made another one, and it’s a shark movie in which the sharks are the second most dangerous thing on the boat. Jai Courtney plays a tour-boat captain off the Australian coast who kidnaps surfers, ties them up on deck and feeds them to the water while filming it, and Courtney’s loose, dancing, grinning performance is the kind of villain turn that gets remembered. The trailer gave the game away and the movie still delivers.
Good Boy (2025)
Ben Leonberg’s haunted-house movie is told entirely from the point of view of a dog. Indy, a retriever with a sixth sense, moves with his owner Todd (Shane Jensen) into a family farmhouse in the woods, and only the dog can see what’s stalking the halls. It runs 73 minutes and never wastes one. The trick could have been a gimmick; instead it’s the most emotionally direct horror film of last year, because you spend the whole runtime worrying about a dog who is worrying about a person. Our review called Indy’s performance exceptional and the film a small-scale gem.
The First Omen (2024)
Nobody asked for an Omen prequel and Arkasha Stevenson made a great one anyway. A young American novitiate arrives at a Rome orphanage and slowly pieces together how, exactly, a certain baby is going to be born. It’s a 1970s Euro-horror pastiche done with real craft, a lead performance that goes to some genuinely unhinged places, and a birth sequence so extreme the film nearly got an NC-17. Paired with Immaculate, which is also on Hulu, it makes for the best evil-nun double feature streaming anywhere.
Send Help (2026)
Sam Raimi’s first proper genre picture in years is a survival thriller with a mean streak. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien play plane crash survivors stranded on an island, where the psychological dangers turn out to be as bad as the physical ones. It’s darkly funny in the way only Raimi manages, cruel to its characters without ever losing its grin. The film hit Hulu on May 7, 2026, and, as our look at 2026’s biggest streaming performances noted, it’s been one of the service’s genre workhorses since.
Huluween and Hulu Originals
Every fall Hulu bundles its spooky programming under the Huluween banner. These are the originals worth a night.
Prey (2022)
Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator prequel is the best Hulu original ever made, and it isn’t especially close. Amber Midthunder plays a young Comanche woman in 1719 who wants to be a hunter and gets a far bigger quarry than she bargained for when a Predator starts working its way up the food chain of the American wilderness. It’s a taut, clean thriller with a star-making lead and a Predator that feels dangerous again. It also rebooted the franchise: Predator: Badlands and the animated anthology below both exist because this one worked.
Hellraiser (2022)
David Bruckner’s reboot went straight to Hulu in fall 2022 and deserved a bigger launch than that. Odessa A’zion plays Riley, an addict who steals the wrong puzzle box, and Jamie Clayton’s Hell Priest is a genuinely new take on Pinhead, regal and quietly amused rather than growling. The Cenobite designs are the best since the first two films, and the addiction allegory is handled with more care than the franchise usually bothers with. Our Fantastic Fest review called it fascinating, and it’s aged into one of the reboots people actually defend.
Fresh (2022)
Daisy Edgar-Jones meets Sebastian Stan in a grocery store produce aisle, they have one charming date, she agrees to a weekend away, and then the movie reveals what it really is. Say no more than that to anyone who hasn’t seen it. Stan’s performance is the draw, weaponizing his rom-com charm until it becomes the scariest thing on screen, and Edgar-Jones makes Noa’s survival instincts feel earned. Our review called it a study in all-consuming love, and that’s the polite way to put it.
No One Will Save You (2023)
Brian Duffield’s alien home-invasion movie has almost no dialogue and doesn’t miss it. Kaitlyn Dever plays Brynn, a seamstress shunned by her small town for reasons the film reveals slowly, who wakes one night to find a visitor in her house that did not arrive by car. The creature work is inventive, the set pieces are relentless, and the ending is one of the strangest and most argued-over of the decade. We flagged it as a fresh take on home invasion when the trailer dropped, and it turned out to be the most underrated Hulu original in the library.
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
Trachtenberg’s animated anthology, released straight to Hulu in June 2025, is R-rated, gorgeous and vicious. Three chapters drop Predators into ninth-century Scandinavia, feudal Japan and the Pacific theater of 1942, then pull the surviving warriors together on an alien world for a final round. The animation style is painterly and the kills are unrestrained in a way live action rarely gets to be. The extended cut that followed in July 2025 ties the whole thing back to Prey and the earlier films in a way that made franchise fans very happy.
Mr. Crocket (2024)
Brandon Espy’s Huluween original is a 1990s kids’ TV host from hell, literally. Elvis Nolasco plays the title character, a Mister Rogers type in a cardigan who steps out of the VHS tape to punish bad parents and take their children back into his show, and Jerrika Hinton plays the mother who goes in after her son. It premiered at Fantastic Fest before landing on Hulu in October 2024, and it plays like a lost Full Moon movie with a bigger budget: puppets, gore, a candy-colored studio set that gets progressively more wrong. Not deep, but a perfect October party pick.
Control Freak (2025)
Shal Ngo’s body-horror drama gave Kelly Marie Tran the role she’d been waiting for. She plays Val, a motivational speaker with a compulsive itch on the back of her head that gets worse the closer she gets to a big career moment, and worse still after she reconnects with her estranged father, a former monk who tells her about a parasitic ghost from Vietnamese folklore that may run in the family. It landed on Hulu in March 2025 and got mixed reviews for its pacing, but Tran is remarkable and the scratching scenes will make you wince.
American Horror Story: 13 (2026)
Ryan Murphy’s anthology came back September 24 with a three-episode premiere and three more a week later, and the pitch is a greatest-hits season: thirteen half-hour episodes, two every Thursday from here to the October 29 finale, with Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters back in the fold and John Waters joining the cast. The teaser brought Constance, Kai and Twisty back on screen, and the full trailer promises the reunion fans have been asking for. Whether the show can still land the plane is a fair question, but this is the biggest thing on Hulu’s Halloween calendar and the reason a lot of lapsed viewers will be back on Thursdays.
How We Keep This List Current
This page is refreshed each month against current Hulu listings, and our weekly new horror streaming this weekend posts feed directly into it, so additions and departures get caught fast. If a title you love has left the service, or something new is missing, tell us through the Contact page and we’ll check it for the next update.
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