Hulu is home to David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (2022) and Fede Álvarez's Alien: Romulus (2024). There's also black comedy slasher American Psycho (2000), twisty thriller Barbarian (2022) and romance-gone-wrong Fresh (2022). Finally, you should check out Cuckoo (2024), Smile (2022) and Immaculate (2024), starring Sydney Sweeney.

The 2010s elevated genre cinema to new heights, with horror proving to be the most prolific playground for talented filmmakers.

Drew Hancock’s directorial debut delves into the darkly comic chaos of an AI ‘companion’ bot gaining sentience and spiralling into madness. Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) cements her status as a rising star in the horror world, delivering a standout performance amid a whirlwind of campy, satirical mayhem set in an unsettlingly near future.

Some of the best horror movies in history are independent films produced outside of the Hollywood major-studio system. Horror hounds appreciate that these smaller indie films showcase a level of creative freedom not often found in a big-budget studio flick.

One of the most critically acclaimed horror films of all time, 1992’s Candyman, will be available to stream on Peacock on February 1st. The film tells the story of semiotics student Helen Lyle who decides to learn about local urban legends and stumbles upon one about Candyman.

Presence is out now in cinemas, and Steven Soderbergh's innovative haunted house chiller is the first great horror movie of 2025.