New on Hulu in October 2026

Hulu added 56 movies in the first week of October 2026, and 40 of them landed in one drop on October 6. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, The Sixth Sense and Die Hard top the list, Soul and Ghostbusters sit just behind, and the horror shelf picked up Hereditary, Midsommar, Barbarian, The Menu and The Substance in a single afternoon. Hulu also added the first three Die Hards, The Holiday and The Family Man, so somebody over there has already started on Christmas. Seventeen titles leave before the month is out, Late Night with the Devil and The Avengers among them.

Every title below is live on Hulu in the US, and the full shelf updates daily on the Hulu what-to-watch page. For the scary stuff that was already there, the best horror movies on Hulu list has the standing shelf.

The best of the new arrivals

1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025)

156 min · IMDb 8.4 · RT 98 · Metascore 67 · October 7

The best-reviewed arrival of the month on Rotten Tomatoes, a 98, and the highest TMDB score too, an 8.8 from 2,249 votes. The first part of the series finale: the Corps is dropped into a fortress of endless shifting rooms, and the strongest fighters on each side pair off for duels while the hunt for Muzan begins. Anime, based on the manga, and the longest film in the top ten at 156 minutes. Hulu's link is the subtitled cut.

2. The Sixth Sense (1999)

107 min · IMDb 8.2 · RT 86 · Metascore 64 · October 7

Philadelphia. A child psychologist takes on a nine-year-old patient with a secret about the afterlife, and works the case while his own marriage goes quiet. Psychological thriller, and tied with Die Hard for the second-highest IMDb score of the month. Landed on October 7, the last day of the drop, with 13,351 TMDB votes behind it.

3. Die Hard (1988)

132 min · IMDb 8.2 · RT 94 · Metascore 72 · October 6

An off-duty cop at his wife's office Christmas party in a Los Angeles tower, a team of heist men posing as terrorists, a vault, and a SWAT team outside making it worse. One man, one building, the whole night. A 94 on Rotten Tomatoes, and the argument about whether it counts as a Christmas movie starts right in the keywords.

4. Soul (2020)

101 min · IMDb 8.0 · RT 95 · Metascore 83 · October 6

The month's highest Metascore, an 83, for a Pixar film about a middle school teacher in New York who plays jazz on the side, gets the jazz gig of his life and then gets separated from his body on the way home. Most of it happens in the before-life, where souls pick up their personalities, with a cat involved. Two stingers in the credits.

5. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)

105 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 96 · Metascore 71 · October 6

A prequel to the series: a high schooler haunted by his dead childhood friend, who has become a curse, gets recruited into a school for exorcists. Shounen anime, based on the manga, and Hulu's link is the English dub. A 96 on Rotten Tomatoes, two points behind Demon Slayer, and the two landed a day apart.

6. Edward Scissorhands (1990)

105 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 92 · Metascore 74 · October 6

An inventor dies before finishing his creation, and the young man with blades for hands gets taken in by a suburban family. A hairdressing career, love at first sight, a burglary he did not plan, and a town that turns on him. A fairy tale in pastel, with a 92 on Rotten Tomatoes.

7. Ghostbusters (1984)

105 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 95 · Metascore 71 · October 6

Three academics get thrown out of their university and go into business trapping ghosts in New York. A haunted library, a lot of slime, a possession, and the Environmental Protection Agency as the antagonist. Comedy from 1984 with a 95 on Rotten Tomatoes, tied with Soul and one point behind Jujutsu Kaisen 0. Hulu's link is the Spanish-language listing.

8. The Fly (1986)

96 min · IMDb 7.6 · RT 83 · Metascore 81 · October 6

A Toronto scientist, a teleportation pod, a housefly that got in with him, and a slow transformation the film refuses to look away from. Body horror played as tragedy, a remake, and 96 minutes. The second-highest Metascore among the horror arrivals, behind Hereditary.

9. Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

128 min · IMDb 7.6 · RT 60 · Metascore 58 · October 6

Third in the series. McClane is back in New York, and a bomber who calls himself Simon runs him and a civilian he gets paired with across the city on riddles while a gold robbery happens underneath. A 60 on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest critic score in the top ten by some distance, and a 7.6 on IMDb anyway.

10. Ice Age (2002)

81 min · IMDb 7.5 · RT 76 · Metascore 61 · October 6

A human baby, three prehistoric animals who do not like each other, and a long walk to hand it back to its father. The squirrel with the acorn is a running gag, not the plot. Animated, the shortest film in the top ten at 81 minutes, and Collision Course landed the same day.

Also arriving

• Scream (1996). 112 min · RT 78 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · October 6.
  A masked killer with a landline and a working knowledge of horror movies stalks a small-town high school a year after a murder. Slasher and whodunit at the same time.
• Hereditary (2018). 128 min · RT 90 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · October 6.
  A grandmother's funeral opens it, and the family slowly finds out what she had been part of. Possession, ritual, and an 87 Metascore, the highest among the horror arrivals.
• True Lies (1994). 141 min · RT 77 · Action, Thriller · October 6.
  A spy whose wife has no idea, a used-car salesman who claims to be one, and nuclear warheads headed for the Florida Keys. Action comedy at 141 minutes.
• A Complete Unknown (2024). 141 min · RT 81 · Drama, Music · October 6.
  A 19-year-old from Minnesota turns up in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s with a guitar and a folk repertoire, and the film ends with an electric one. Music biography, based on the book.
• Testament of Youth (2015). 129 min · RT 84 · Drama, History, War · October 6.
  Based on Vera Brittain's First World War memoir: an aspiring writer becomes a nurse while the men in her life go to Flanders. Pacifism, arrived at the hard way.
• The Menu (2022). 107 min · RT 88 · Horror, Comedy · October 6.
  A couple takes a boat to a private-island restaurant where the tasting menu has been planned around the guests. Horror comedy about food and the people who write about it.
• The Substance (2024). 141 min · RT 89 · Horror, Sci-Fi · October 5.
  A celebrity past the age television wants injects a black-market compound and gets a second, younger body out of the deal. Satire as body horror, 141 minutes. Take The Menu over it on a weeknight: one point apart on Rotten Tomatoes, and 34 minutes shorter.
• Monsters University (2013). 104 min · RT 80 · Fantasy, Animation, Comedy · October 6.
  Mike and Sulley before the factory: rival freshmen in a scare program, a fraternity of misfits, and a campus games tournament. Pixar prequel.
• Die Hard 2 (1990). 124 min · RT 68 · Action, Thriller · October 6.
  A snowed-in Dulles airport on Christmas Eve, terrorists in the control tower, and McClane's wife circling overhead in one of the planes. The middle of the three Die Hards in this drop.
• Midsommar (2019). 147 min · RT 83 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · October 6.
  A grieving student follows her boyfriend and his friends to a midsummer festival at a Swedish commune, shot almost entirely in daylight. Folk horror, 147 minutes, the longest of the horror arrivals.
• The Holiday (2006). 136 min · RT 51 · Comedy, Romance · October 7.
  A Surrey cottage and a Los Angeles house trade occupants over Christmas, and both women do better in the other one's life. Critics gave it a 51; TMDB voters gave it a 7.1.
• Nightmare Alley (2021). 151 min · RT 80 · Drama, Thriller, Crime · October 7.
  A carnival drifter learns the mentalist act, takes it to high society, and meets a psychologist who is better at the con than he is. Noir, 151 minutes, the second-longest arrival of the month behind Demon Slayer.
• Hotel Transylvania (2012). 91 min · RT 45 · Fantasy, Animation, Comedy · October 6.
  Dracula runs a resort where humans are not allowed, until a backpacker wanders in during his daughter's birthday weekend. Animated. Hulu's listing is the Spanish-language one.
• Barbarian (2022). 103 min · RT 92 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · October 5.
  A double-booked rental, a stranger already inside, and a basement that keeps going. Horror with a hard swerve halfway through, and a 92 from critics, the best Rotten Tomatoes score among the new horror.
• The Family Man (2000). 125 min · RT 54 · Fantasy, Drama, Comedy · October 6.
  A rich, single businessman wakes up on Christmas morning in the suburban life he would have had if he had stayed with his college girlfriend. A guardian angel is involved. Romantic fantasy.
• Soulm8te (2026). 99 min · RT 47 · Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi · October 5.
  A grieving engineer gets his company's companion android to think for herself, which goes the way these things go. A 2026 release and a spin-off, with 445 votes so far.
• Signs (2002). 106 min · RT 76 · Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi · October 6.
  Crop circles appear in a family's cornfield, then on the news, then everywhere. A widowed farmer, his brother, two kids, and a house to board up. Alien invasion seen from one porch.
• From Hell (2001). 122 min · RT 57 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · October 7.
  London, a Scotland Yard inspector with an opium habit, and the Ripper murders. Based on the comic, with a theory about who he was.
• Surf's Up (2007). 85 min · RT 78 · Animation, Comedy, Family · October 6.
  Animated mockumentary: a penguin surfer, a world championship, and a chicken. 85 minutes.
• Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015). 89 min · RT 57 · Fantasy, Animation, Comedy · October 7.
  Sequel: a wedding, a baby, and a great-grandfather vampire who disapproves of all of it. Animated.

Leaving Hulu in October 2026

17 movies leave Hulu in October, four of them on Halloween itself. These are the ones to catch first.

• Late Night with the Devil (2024). 93 min · RT 97 · Horror · Leaves October 19.
  The best critic score on the departures list, a 97, one point behind Demon Slayer on the arrivals side, and it leaves on October 19, twelve days before Halloween. A 1977 late-night talk show's Halloween special, presented as the recovered broadcast, with a possession on air. 93 minutes.
• The Avengers (2012). 143 min · RT 91 · Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi · Leaves October 31.
  The most-voted title on either list, 39,873 votes on TMDB, and it stays until Halloween. Nick Fury assembles the team for an alien invasion of New York. Two stingers.
• American Psycho (2000). 102 min · RT 69 · Drama, Thriller, Crime · Leaves October 31.
  A Wall Street banker who is also a serial killer, or thinks he is. Satire with a chainsaw. Leaves Hulu on October 31, but it landed on Peacock on October 1, so nobody needs to hurry.
• Benediction (2021). 137 min · RT 91 · Drama, History, War · Leaves October 16.
  Siegfried Sassoon after the trenches: decorated, then publicly against the war, then moving through London's literary and theatre set. 137 minutes, a 91 from critics, and only 90 votes on TMDB.
• Drinking Buddies (2013). 90 min · RT 84 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · Leaves October 10.
  Two brewery coworkers, their partners, and a line that keeps getting blurrier. Mumblecore, 90 minutes, and among the first to go on October 10.
• Black Death (2010). 102 min · RT 72 · Drama, Horror, History · Leaves October 10.
  Plague-era England, a knight and a young monk sent to investigate a village the plague has skipped, and a necromancer who may be running it. Medieval horror. Leaves October 10 with Drinking Buddies.
• Mayhem! (2023). 99 min · RT 81 · Action, Thriller, Crime · Leaves October 12.
  A boxer out on parole flees to Thailand, gets blackmailed into a drug run, and ends up on a revenge spree. Action with a lot of gore, 99 minutes.
• Adrift (2018). 96 min · RT 70 · Adventure, Thriller, Romance · Leaves October 31.
  A couple sails a yacht into a hurricane, based on the true story, and she does most of the surviving. 96 minutes. Leaves on Halloween with The Avengers.

The full list

Everything else that landed this month, by day.

October 5

• Grown Ups (2010) · Comedy

October 6

• Aloha (2015) · Drama, Comedy, Romance
• File 253 (2015) · Horror
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) · Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
• Grown Ups 2 (2013) · Comedy
• Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) · Fantasy, Comedy
• Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) · Adventure, Animation, Comedy
• Night at the Museum (2006) · Fantasy, Comedy, Family
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) · Adventure, Fantasy, Action
• Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) · Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy
• No Good Deed (2014) · Thriller, Crime
• No Me Sigas (2025) · Horror, Mystery
• Scream 2 (1997) · Horror, Mystery
• Scream 3 (2000) · Horror, Mystery
• Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2017) · Animation, Comedy, Family
• The Empty Man (2020) · Horror, Thriller, Mystery
• The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) · Horror
• The Swan Princess (1994) · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
• The Village (2004) · Drama, Thriller, Mystery
• The Watch (2012) · Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

October 7

• Be Careful What You Wish For (2020) · Horror
• Fright Night (2011) · Horror, Comedy
• Ghostbusters II (1989) · Fantasy, Comedy
• Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was... (2024) · Comedy, Documentary
• One of Them Days (2025) · Comedy
• The Exorcism of Carmen Farias (2021) · Horror

Pick one without the scroll

Fifty-six arrivals and 17 departures is a lot to argue over. Start a Hulu swipe room, send the link around the couch, and let the matches pick. Then hit the concessions machine and press play.