Best horror movies on Hulu

Halloween is a month out and Hulu has the most current horror shelf of any service. These are the best horror movies streaming on Hulu in the US right now, ranked by rating, and the list gets refreshed as titles rotate in and out through spooky season and after. The shelf skews recent: eight of the top ten came out in 2020 or later, and only one is older than 2012. For the full movie shelf beyond one genre, the Hulu what-to-watch page updates daily.

The 10 best horror movies on Hulu right now

1. Coraline (2009)

100 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 91 · Metascore 80

The best-rated horror movie on Hulu by every score in this list, and the only one you can put on for a kid. An 11-year-old finds a small door in her new house that opens on a better version of her family, run by a mother with buttons for eyes. Stop-motion, based on the novel, and tagged horror for children, which is accurate on both words.

2. Alien: Romulus (2024)

119 min · IMDb 7.1 · RT 80 · Metascore 64

Young colonists strip a derelict space station for parts and wake up what it was built to contain. A spin-off from the Alien series that plays as a haunted house in space: cryo chambers, sealed corridors, an abandoned station. The only science fiction in the top ten.

3. Nosferatu (2024)

133 min · IMDb 7.1 · RT 85 · Metascore 78

A remake of the silent classic: a young woman in 19th-century Germany is drawn to a plague-carrying count who has wanted her for years. Gothic in the literal sense, and the longest film in this top ten at 133 minutes.

4. The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

109 min · IMDb 7.0 · RT 96 · Metascore 70

Cinderella from the stepsister's side. Elvira has one ball to win the prince and a beautiful stepsister in the way, so she starts cutting, starving and rebuilding her body to compete. Body horror with a satire tag, and the second-highest Rotten Tomatoes score in this top ten. Hulu carries the English dub at this link.

5. Pearl (2022)

102 min · IMDb 7.0 · RT 93 · Metascore 76

A prequel to X, set on the same Texas farm decades earlier. Pearl nurses an ailing father under a devout mother's eye and wants to be in pictures badly enough to kill for it. A slasher dressed as melodrama, with an alligator. X is further down this page.

6. Late Night with the Devil (2024)

93 min · IMDb 7.0 · RT 97 · Metascore 72

The highest Rotten Tomatoes score in this top ten. A late-night host puts a possession on air for his 1977 Halloween broadcast, and the film plays as the tape of that night: a studio audience, a hypnotist, and 93 minutes on the clock. Take this over Nosferatu for a group: a higher critic score, 40 minutes shorter, and the talk-show format keeps a room watching.

7. Heretic (2024)

111 min · IMDb 7.0 · RT 89 · Metascore 71

Two Mormon missionaries knock on the door of a polite man who wants to talk about religion, and the house does not let them leave. Mostly three people in rooms arguing about faith, with the horror arriving through the arguments rather than around them.

8. Send Help (2026)

113 min · IMDb 6.9 · RT 92 · Metascore 75

A plane goes down and the two survivors on the island are a bullied employee and the boss who bullied her. The power flips, then flips again. Filed as comedy and thriller alongside horror, so expect laughs between the survival beats. The newest film in the top ten.

9. Sinister (2012)

110 min · IMDb 6.8 · RT 64 · Metascore 53

A true-crime writer moves his family into a murder house for the book and finds a box of old home movies in the attic. Each reel is a different family, a different year, the same ending. The oldest live-action film here and the one the critics liked least, with a Metascore of 53. Audiences rate it well above that, and the reels are why.

10. Run (2020)

90 min · IMDb 6.7 · RT 88 · Metascore 67

A homeschooled teenager in a wheelchair starts reading the labels on her medication and stops trusting her mother. Munchausen-by-proxy thriller, and the shortest film in the top ten at 90 minutes.

More horror movies on Hulu worth a look

• Fresh (2022). 114 min · TMDB 6.9.
  A grocery-store meet-cute, a weekend away, and a boyfriend whose business is meat. Rom-com for half an hour, then not.
• Together (2025). 102 min · TMDB 6.9.
  A couple moves to the country and something in a cave starts fusing them, literally. Body horror as relationship metaphor.
• Oddity (2024). 98 min · TMDB 6.7.
  A blind medium takes a life-size wooden mannequin to the house where her twin was murdered. Irish, and a 96 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Sleep (2023). 94 min · TMDB 6.7.
  A husband starts talking in his sleep, then doing worse. A Metascore of 80, tied with X for the highest in this section. English dub at this link.
• Life (2017). 104 min · TMDB 6.5.
  The ISS crew revives a Mars soil sample and it grows faster than they can seal it off. Alien on a real station.
• Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026). 108 min · TMDB 7.6.
  Grace survived the wedding-night hunt; now four families want her head for a throne. Satanic pacts, gore, sisters.
• 40 Acres (2025). 113 min · TMDB 6.7.
  A Black farming family in a famine-struck Canada defends the land against a militia that eats people. Siege film first, horror second.
• X (2022). 106 min · TMDB 6.7.
  1979, a porn shoot on a Texas farm, elderly hosts who object. The film Pearl is the prequel to; a 94 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Longlegs (2024). 101 min · TMDB 6.5.
  A rookie FBI agent works a decades-old string of family murders with a satanic code and finds her own name in it.
• Dangerous Animals (2025). 98 min · TMDB 6.5.
  A surfer is held on a boat by a serial killer who feeds people to sharks on camera. Shark movie and captivity movie at once.
• Little Monsters (2019). 94 min · TMDB 6.5.
  A kindergarten field trip meets a zombie outbreak and the teacher keeps the kids convinced it is a game.
• No One Will Save You (2023). 93 min · TMDB 6.7.
  Aliens come for one woman alone in an isolated house, and the film stays with her the whole way.
• Thanksgiving (2023). 106 min · TMDB 6.5.
  A Black Friday stampede in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and a year later a Thanksgiving-themed killer starts settling accounts in the town where the holiday started.
• Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022). 94 min · TMDB 6.2.
  Rich twenty-somethings play a murder-in-the-dark party game during a hurricane, and then the bodies are real. Whodunit played as satire.
• Good Boy (2025). 73 min · TMDB 6.6.
  A haunted house where the dog is the one who notices. 73 minutes, the shortest thing on this page.
• Presence (2025). 84 min · TMDB 6.1.
  A family moves into a suburban house that already has someone in it. One location, 84 minutes.

Pick one before the popcorn goes cold

Horror night stalls on the same question every time: how scary, and does anyone have to close their eyes. Start a Hulu swipe room, let everyone swipe through the deck, and watch whichever one matches. The concessions machine handles the snacks.