The Best Horror Movies On Hulu Right Now
Every streaming service has a glut of options for your viewing needs, and Vulture is doing its part to help you find the signals among the noise. Just as we try to keep abreast of the top horror-movie options on Netflix, so too do we want to curate a best-of-the-best list for other platforms. In this case: Hulu. Here are the 40 best titles available to you right now for your art-house-horror and simple-jump-scare needs.
This follow-up to the zombie-redefining hit 28 Days Later takes us further into hopelessness, as the contagion, once thought to be under control, comes roaring back and threatens to expand beyond its U.K. origins. Plus it stars Imogen Poots, which immediately gives it a higher start value than almost any other zombie movie.
Anna and the Apocalypse not only has zombies, it has musical numbers and friendship and coming-of-age drama that follows the titular Anna (Dickinson star Ella Hunt) and a handful of her high-school classmates as they try to survive an onslaught of the undead. See also: large lawn candy canes used as bludgeoning instruments.
Alex Garland’s adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel of the same name is a hard-sci-fi horror trip into an earthbound alternate dimension called Area X. A research team is sent beyond the barrier to find another team that went missing before them, but instead they find a gorgeously mutated landscape that threatens to destroy each of them in a uniquely terrifying way.
Director Brandon Cronenberg treads in his father David’s legendary footsteps with this body horror about an even more celebrity-obsessed near future in which you can pay to contract the diseases of famous people. (You can also eat their vat-grown tissue, but that’s just a detail.) Caleb Landry Jones plays an employee at a bespoke-disease clinic — and a part-time black-market smuggler — who gets caught up in the mystery of a dead starlet whose pathogens are suddenly in high demand. It’s gross, and it’s great.
It’s common for horror movies to conjure the experience of being in hell, but few accomplish the task as effectively as Baskin, from Turkish director Can Evrenol. When a group of police officers answer a distress call that takes them to an abandoned building, they find a gruesome charnel house that gets only more nightmarish the further they descend into its bowels. Baskin is surreal, colorful chaos.
Roxanne Benjamin has been producing horror content for years, but Brighton Rock, which takes us on an eerie one-night journey into the woods with a newly minted park ranger, is her feature debut. When Wendy finds a dead body in the middle of nowhere, she’s instructed to wait with it until help arrives. Help, however, won’t reach her until the next morning, leaving Wendy to spend the night alone with a festering corpse and whoever — or whatever — caused the death.
This Joss Whedon–penned meta-horror-comedy was one of those olive-branch extending scary movies that made wider audiences realize how smart and varied the genre could be. A group of friends take a vacation to a secluded cabin, and everything that can go wrong — and has gone wrong in slasher movies for decades — does go wrong for our attractive, overwhelmed 20-somethings. Huge bonus points for the pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth.
This creepy-kid classic follows a 20-something couple on a cross-country move who get hung up in a tiny midwestern town that is suspiciously devoid of adults. John Franklin gives an all-time horror performance as the child preacher and cult leader Isaac Chroner, whipping his young peers into a murderous frenzy in the name of He Who Walks Behind the Rows. If you’re feeling something aggressively ’80s, join Linda Hamilton for this road trip gone wrong.
This entry in Hulu’s Into the Dark anthology series is one of its strongest chapters to date. Up-and-coming feature director Gigi Saul Guerrero helmed this story about a pregnant woman who gets swept up by a nefarious U.S. government operation while trying to cross the border from Mexico to the United States. Horror legend Barbara Crampton co-stars as an evil emissary of the American Dream in this immigration nightmare.
Of all the internet-horror movies out there, The Den is really one of your best options: A graduate student is combing through video-chat forums to gather data for her thesis project when she witnesses a murder over someone’s webcam. As she tries to solve the murder, she and her loved ones become targets of the killer, and we watch the whole thing play out on her desktop monitor.
This possession-horror film is set at a Catholic asylum for women in Northern Ireland and follows a pair of priests dispatched by the Vatican to investigate reports of a Virgin Mary statue that weeps blood. It turns out, though, that the crying plaster isn’t nearly as scary as the brutal nuns in residence or what they have chained up in the basement.
This rowdy postapocalypse movie features an America divided into two factions: violent gang members who belong to themed mobs and nonviolent people dubbed Domestics. A husband and wife set out to make a perilous drive across the Midwest to reach family, but the several hundred miles between their starting point and their destination are filled with Mad Max–esque heathens looking to kill or imprison anyone who invades their territory.
This quiet French film takes place on a remote island inhabited only by young boys and the very similar-looking, somewhat ghostly women who care for them. When one of the boys gets dangerously curious about the medical experiments the women perform on their charges and starts spying on what they get up to on the beach at night, he realizes their bucolic existence masks something much more sinister.
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