The 10 exciting films on Hulu you can watch currently!

Provided you’re a horror purist, you’ll find that Hulu is severely lacking in great horror flicks. While there are plenty of scary and thrilling movies on offer from the popular streaming service, the pure horror genre is in meager supply. Luckily, we can still make a great list of the best scary movies on Hulu, assuming you won’t go into a rage over how many of our selections are not traditional horror films.

1. Child’s Play

The remake of the original version of Child’s Play is one of the best scary movies on Hulu. You might not think that a movie about a possessed small doll would be a good horror film, but it’s surprisingly effective at what it sets out to do: scare the pants off of you.

2. Parasite

Parasite was the surprise winner of the 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture. In retrospect, it shouldn’t have been a surprise at all. Direct Bong Joon-ho created a timely look at the class system that is still around all over the world. A poor family in South Korea poses as more well-to-do individuals in order to get employed by a highly wealthy family. The movie quickly takes a very dark turn and exposes both the poor family’s lies and the rich family’s secrets. This is definitely one of the best scary movies on Hulu.

3. The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods, in many ways, is a quintessential horror film. The only reason it’s not a “pure” horror film is that it’s so damn funny.

Written by Joss Whedon — the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer — The Cabin in the Woods is like a horror version of The Wizard of Oz. The curtain is pulled back and we see that the old tropes of scantily clad teenagers getting lost in the woods and making stupid decisions that get them killed is actually by design.

4. Let The Right One In

This 2008 movie is yet another foreign language film (from Sweden) on this list. However, it is still one of the best scary movies on Hulu. A 12-year old boy is dealing with typical things from his age. He gets picked on by bullies and is just looking for a friend to help him out.

5. Hellbound: Hellraiser 2

Unfortunately, the original Hellraiser is not currently one of the scary movies on Hulu that you’re able to watch. That film is a bonafide horror classic, and it’s essential you watch it before attempting to watch Hellbound: Hellraiser 2.

If you’ve seen Hellraiser before or are able to watch it via another streaming service, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 is worth checking out. While it’s definitively not as good as the original, it’s absolutely the best of the sequels (of which there are too many, and most of them are awful).

6. Overlord

Before the release of Overlord, rumors suggested that it would be a new installment in the very loose Cloverfield series. However, the final cut of the film has no connection with the Cloverfield universe although, after watching it, you can see how it could easily fit with just one expository scene inserted.

7. Pet Semetary

This 2019 movie version of Stephen King’s novel has a lot going for it. Of course, the biggest one is adapting one of the scariest stories from King’s long line of horror novels. A family moves to rural Maine and discovers a burial ground where it appears that you can bring the dead back to life. The father buries their deceased cat Church in this ground, and the cat does later return to life. Only this cat appears to be changed by the experience.

8. Sputnik

This is a Russian language (with English subtitles) horror film from 2020 that offers a very different fictional view of the Soviet Union’s space program in the 1980s. Cosmonauts bring . . . something back with them on their return to Earth. As it turns out, the only surviving cosmonaut from the trip has an alien that’s living inside of him. It’s not friendly. While this movie is clearly influenced by the original 1979 Alien, Sputnik takes some excellent turns of its own, making a truly scary sci-fi film.

9. Super 8

Five years before the premiere of the Netflix TV show Stranger Things, we saw a film with a very similar plot called Super 8. Developed by J.J. Abrams, the film is essentially a mix of all your favorite 80s films involving kids, including The Goonies, Stand By Me, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. It’s also one of the best scary movies on Hulu at the moment.

10. Thelma

This film doesn’t tell a simple story with some jump scares scattered throughout. Instead, it’s much artsier and abstract and might even take a second watch for you to fully understand what’s going on.

The plot of Thelma centers on the titular character, a young woman heading to college. Although she seems like a fish-out-of-water at the large school, she eventually befriends another young woman to whom she is instantly attracted. However, Thelma is harboring a dark power that she doesn’t even know about — but it could destroy everything she holds dear.