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.

Presence, his excellent new film and his first real foray into the horror genre, is shot entirely from the perspective of a ghost who inhabits a house where a new family has moved in. In the hands of nearly any other director,

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.

From long-awaited sequels like 28 Years Later to exciting remakes like Frankenstein, these are the most hotly anticipated horror movies of 2025.

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