Warner Bros. If you’re a Hulu subscriber, you’ve got access to tons of horror films, so many that it might be hard to choose which ones to watch. We’ve rounded up the best for you. For this list of the best scariest horror movies on Hulu, anything scary or even playfully horrific is fair game. Settle in for a scare-i-fying night at home. Here are the best, scariest horror movies on Hulu right now. This list is updated regularly.
Best Horror Movies on Hulu
1. The Lodge (2019)
Co-directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala follow their disturbing, acclaimed German-language festival hit debut Goodnight Mommy with The Lodge, an equally unsettling, impressively economic descent into madness. Front and center is a scorching performance from Riley Keough; she plays a haunted young woman tasked with watching her new lover’s resentful kids, alone in an isolated snowed-in cabin. Bad stuff happens.
2. Parasite (2019)
Bong Joon-ho‘s funny, terrifying, tragic, tense, erotic, gross and compulsively, feverishly entertaining crime comedy/thriller examines the internationally relevant topic of classism. Following astounding, highly deserved top honors at the SAG Awards, Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
3. Lights Out (2016)
Inventive, enthusiastically scary direction from David F. Sandberg and excellent performances from Teresa Palmer and Maria Bello drive this surprise box-office smash about a fractured family tormented by an entity that thrives in the dark. It’s a scary movie; you will want a bedside lamp when it’s over.
4. Oculus (2013)
A sign of good things to come, Mike Flanagan’s stylish and character-driven haunted mirror movie was a modest hit, also notable for a breakout big-screen turn from Avengers and Jumanji star Karen Gillan post-Doctor Who.
5. Let the Right One In (2008)
Rightfully considered one of the best horror movies of the century so far, this Swedish adaptation of the acclaimed novel came out when horror was at a low point stateside. The torture films made popular by Saw and Hostel were king. This was a welcome reminder that inspired, gifted filmmakers can actually tell rich and moving stories with violence and scariness. It’s no small feat that such a dark story, about a bullied boy who befriends a vampire child, features lead performances from two actors who were only 11 years old at the time of filming.
6. Fresh (2022)
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan have bloody brilliant chemistry in a brilliant, bloody genre mashup about a meet cute that takes a hell of a turn around act two. The less you know about Fresh going in, the better. It’s terrific, and deserved to be the word-of-mouth hit it is. Bon appétit.
7. Predator (1987)
Plain and simple, John McTiernan is one of the best action directors of all time, and Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the best genre pictures ever made. Critics in 1987 perhaps had a hard time seeing past the simple plot and the near-cartoonish surface machismo of Predator (that notorious, much-memed high-five knows it’s silly), but just beneath that is sophisticated, patient visual storytelling. This is The Most Dangerous Gameon steroids. 20th Century Fox
8. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Taking a cue from Francis Ford Coppola’s magnificent, borderline gaudy Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this adaptation of the first science fiction book ever ups the violence, sex, and lavish production values with an A-list cast led by Robert De Niro and director Kenneth Branagh. It’s not nearly on the same level as Coppola’s film, but at the very least a campy pleasure for horror hounds who also love a period piece.
9. Prey (2022)
Four years after the series hit bottom with the trashy The Predator, director Dan Trachtenberg delivered the Predator prequel we didn’t know we needed. Placing the iconic hunter in the American wilderness of 1719, Prey is a taut, outstanding thriller led by a star-making performance from Amber Midthunder. 20th Century Studios
10. Evil Dead (2013)
Sam Raimi’s original 1981 splatterfest The Evil Dead, about demonic possession in a remote cabin, is the first appearance of Bruce Campbell’s indelible monster-killer Ash. A shoestring-budgeted, ambitious and morbidly creative little movie that could, phantasmagorically mega-gory The Evil Dead spawned a franchise after catching fire at the box office. Fede Álvarez’ 2013 modernization is fittingly extremist, well-executed and fun. Jane Levy is terrific as a final girl who goes through hell and then some.
11. Hellraiser (2022)
Perhaps the most notorious horror movie to come out of Britain since Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, Clive Barker’s body horror tale of resurrection initially received the X rating from the MPAA before getting a few cuts–or, shall we say, slices. At least ten times better than many would expect a modern Hellraiser reboot to be (after many, many bad sequels), David Bruckner’s Hellraiser focuses on a young addict (Odessa A’Zion) who stumbles upon the golden puzzle box, unknowingly unleashing the Cenobites including a new terrifying female Pinhead (Jamie Clayton). The performances and characters are actually pretty good here, the relationships interesting. The production design is better than it needed to be, and the pleasure and pain lore of Hellraiser all kind of works as an allegory for addiction. This is far and away the best entry since the original, and many younger fans will even prefer this one. All of a sudden it’s easy to get excited about Hellraiser again.
12. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Scott Derrickson directs Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson in a box-office hit that combines legal drama and supernatural thriller, about a homicide case in the aftermath of an exorcism. Despite lukewarm reviews, The Exorcism of Emily Rose grossed over $145 million against a $19 million budget, and remains a part of the horror conversation to this day.
13. Saw (2004)
Unfortunately, Saw’s runaway box-office success led to a “torture porn” trend that dominated popular horror for several years and offered little beyond misery. The lethal puzzle master’s first outing has its merits, though: namely crisp direction from James Wan, and some truly effective twists and surprises. Lionsgate
14. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Zack Snyder’s stylish and exciting remake of George Romero’s all-time zombie essential, like its predecessor, sees a band of survivors holed up in a shopping mall after the zombie apocalypse. The ensemble cast includes Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames; this modernization has become something of a classic in its own right.
