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Horror movies on Hulu right now
9 horror films from our catalog are streaming on Hulu in the US. 6 of them were checked on Hulu's own site on 2026-09-04; the other 3 are from our last hand-check; availability changes, confirm before you settle in. Everything below is ranked by our combined score — the mean of IMDb, the Tomatometer, the Popcornmeter and Douban — with its own jump scare, gore and dread numbers beside it.
Every horror film on Hulu9 films
Ranked by combined score. The buttons re-sort by our own intensity ratings — how much it makes you jump, how much it shows you, how much it sits on your chest.
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Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994
Jumps4 Gore6 Dread4 7.8/10
Anne Rice campaigned publicly against Tom Cruise's casting, then bought ad space to apologize once she saw it — and she was right the second time; his Lestat is all appetite and bad manners.
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Hereditary 2018
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread10 7.7/10
Ari Aster's debut smuggles a full-blown occult nightmare inside a family grief drama, and modern horror hasn't recovered since.
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Barbarian 2022
Jumps10 Gore8 Dread8 7.5/10
Book an Airbnb, find it double-booked, discover the basement has a basement.
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Saint Maud 2019
Jumps6 Gore4 Dread10 7.2/10
Rose Glass turns a hospice nurse's private faith into a pressure cooker of ecstasy and delusion.
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Possessor 2020
Jumps6 Gore10 Dread8 7.0/10
Brandon Cronenberg's assassins hijack other people's bodies to do their killing, and the film is as clinical and merciless as that premise deserves.
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The Blair Witch Project 1999
Jumps4 Gore2 Dread10 6.8/10
Three student filmmakers hike into the Black Hills and the map stops mattering.
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Longlegs 2024
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread10 6.7/10
Perkins shoots an FBI procedural like a half-remembered nightmare: dead air, wrong framings, and Nicolas Cage as a satanic killer kept mostly at the edges.
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Paranormal Activity 2007
Jumps8 Gore2 Dread6 6.7/10
A static bedroom camera, a timestamp, and a door that moves an inch.
Questions
How many horror movies are on Hulu right now?
9 horror films from the WhatScares catalog of 323 are on Hulu in the US. That list is from our last hand-check; availability changes, so confirm on Hulu before you settle in.
What is the scariest horror movie on Hulu?
By our own jump-scare rating, Alien (1979) — 10/10 for jump scares and 10/10 for dread, on a scale we score by hand rather than take from review sites.
Where this comes from. 6 of 9 titles here were read from Hulu's own public pages on 2026-09-04. The rest come from the catalog's hand-maintained availability list, which nothing re-checks automatically. No streaming API is used anywhere on this site, so there is nothing here licensed from a third party and nothing to attribute — and equally, nothing that updates itself the moment a licence expires.
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