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Scream 1996
Jumps6 Gore6 Dread4 7.6/10
Craven and Williamson autopsy the slasher while running a first-rate one: the rules recited on screen while the phone keeps ringing.
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Horror movies on Hulu right now
11 horror films from our catalog are streaming on Hulu in the US. 8 of them were checked on Hulu's own site on 2026-10-20; 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.
Added this month2 films
First seen on Hulu by our checks in October 2026. Everything here is also in the full list below.
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The Exorcist 1973
Jumps10 Gore6 Dread8 8.1/10
Still the benchmark for possession cinema fifty years on.
Every horror film on Hulu11 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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The Exorcist 1973
Jumps10 Gore6 Dread8 8.1/10
Still the benchmark for possession cinema fifty years on.
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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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Scream 1996
Jumps6 Gore6 Dread4 7.6/10
Craven and Williamson autopsy the slasher while running a first-rate one: the rules recited on screen while the phone keeps ringing.
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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?
11 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.
What horror was added to Hulu most recently?
Scream (1996), which our checks first saw on Hulu on 2026-10-19.
Where this comes from. 8 of 11 titles here were read from Hulu's own public pages on 2026-10-20. 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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