The 30 Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies on Hulu (July 2026)

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 90% 2h 26m

Directed by Francis Lawrence

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHunger Games' surveillance state and forced spectacle-killing transform gladiator fiction into dystopian horror: entertainment as state control mechanism.

After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.

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The Hunger Games (2012)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 84% 2h 22m

Directed by Gary Ross

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDystopian surveillance state weaponizes children as entertainment—explores how technology enables authoritarian spectacle.

In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 76% 2h 26m

Directed by Steven Spielberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpielberg's tragic android protagonist interrogates whether programmed love constitutes genuine consciousness and deserves moral consideration.

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

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Predator: Badlands (2025)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 86% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 47m

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlien hunter exiled from clan forces confrontation with android—merges cosmic horror with existential isolation themes.

Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

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Alien: Romulus (2024)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 59m

Directed by Fede Álvarez

✦ MovieMuse AI takeXenomorph hive-structure and parasitic lifecycle embody evolution's inhuman perfection: reproductive biology as pure horror-mechanism.

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

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Boss Level (2021)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 73% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 41m

Directed by Joe Carnahan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime loop mechanic transforms action thriller into sci-fi horror where each death reveals technological conspiracy layer.

A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.

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The Animal Kingdom (2023)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.6 2h 7m

Directed by Thomas Cailley

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBiological mutation wave explores body horror as evolutionary punishment—human transformation becomes civilization's reckoning.

In a world hit by a wave of mutations transforming humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he and their son Émile embark on a quest that will change their lives forever.

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40 Acres (2025)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 89% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 53m

Directed by R.T. Thorne

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIsolation meets cosmic dread as ancestral land becomes hunting ground for incomprehensible extraterrestrial entities.

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.

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Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 100% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 40m

Directed by Makoto Kamiya

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBio-Organic Weapons as weaponized body horror—transforms human soldiers into mutant combat abominations.

U.S. federal agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into the "East Slavic Republic" to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, which the U.S. and Russia are making preparations to jointly intervene in. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the BOWs.

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Strange Harvest (2025)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 34m

Directed by Stuart Ortiz

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSerial killer's return coincides with alien phenomena—blurs supernatural horror with extraterrestrial invasion ambiguity.

Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.

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No One Will Save You (2023)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 33m

Directed by Brian Duffield

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlien encounter stripped of dialogue forces visceral isolation—extraterrestrial threat becomes internal psychological reckoning.

A lonely woman battles extraterrestrials who threaten her future while forcing her to face her past.

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Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 43% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 37m

Directed by Takanori Tsujimoto

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBioweapon virus weaponizes human biology—transforms infected agents into mindless viral vectors of destruction.

When a fearless enemy out for revenge unleashes a brutal and deadly new virus, BSAA captain Chris Redfield enlists the help of Agent Leon S. Kennedy and Professor Rebecca Chambers to bring down the death merchant and save New York City.

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Color Out of Space (2020)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 86% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 50m

Directed by Richard Stanley

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLovecraftian cosmic intrusion via meteorite corrupts family and landscape—adaptation captures indescribable cosmic wrongness.

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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All That We Destroy (2019)

IMDb 6.0 Letterboxd 0.0 1h 25m

Directed by Chelsea Stardust

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGeneticist creates clone army to cure serial killer son—weaponizes biotech against inherited psychopathy.

A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies by allowing him to relive the murder of his first victim.

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Retreat (2011)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 62% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 29m

Directed by Carl Tibbetts

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIsolation amplifies paranoia when man emerges from sea—confined-space thriller becomes contagion nightmare.

Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.

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Books of Blood (2020)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 20% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 47m

Directed by Brannon Braga

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpatial-temporal manipulation via forbidden texts—Clive Barker's signature body-horror cosmic dread across dimensions.

A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

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New Life (2023)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 94% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 24m

Directed by John Rosman

✦ MovieMuse AI takePregnant woman hunted by mysterious benefactor—sci-fi thriller weaponizes fetal biology as plot McGuffin.

A mysterious woman on the run, and the resourceful fixer assigned to bring her in. Their two unique stories inextricably link, as the stakes of the pursuit rise to apocalyptic proportions.

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We Bury the Dead (2026)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 88% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 35m

Directed by Zak Hilditch

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMilitary propaganda collapses when resurrected soldiers reveal intelligent predation, subverting zombie genre expectations entirely.

After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don't just rise—they hunt. The military insists they are harmless and slow-moving, offering hope to grieving families. But when Ava enters a quarantine zone searching for her missing husband, she uncovers the horrifying truth: the undead are growing more violent, more relentless, and more dangerous with every passing hour.

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Aporia (2023)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 91% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 44m

Directed by Jared Moshé

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWidow exploits temporal manipulation device to resurrect husband—grief weaponized through quantum physics.

Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.

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Crawlers (2020)

IMDb 5.6 Letterboxd 2.3 1h 21m

Directed by Brandon Zuck

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSaint Patrick's Day body-snatching swarm—sci-fi horror grounds alien invasion in drunken college chaos.

On Saint Patrick's day—a night of wild parties and drunken revelry—three unlikely friends band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-snatching aliens.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 38% Letterboxd 2.2 1h 47m

Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMars base discovers Martian microbiology resurrects dead—planetary horror weaponizes infection across worlds.

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

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The Last Days on Mars (2013)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 18% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 38m

Directed by Ruairi Robinson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBacterial resurrection on Mars transforms scientific curiosity into existential contamination horror—discovery becomes doom.

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.

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Arcadian (2024)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 78% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 32m

Directed by Benjamin Brewer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNocturnal creature attacks on isolated farm weaponize darkness itself—sci-fi horror stripped to primal survival mechanics.

In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.

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Humane (2024)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 70% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 33m

Directed by Caitlin Cronenberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEco-collapse dystopia weaponizes family intimacy, making dinner table ethics more horrifying than any alien invasion.

In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.

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T.I.M. (2023)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 42% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 41m

Directed by Spencer Brown

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAI prosthetics assistant weaponizes intimacy—technological dependency becomes domestic horror apparatus.

Prosthetics scientist Abi and her adulterous husband Paul adjust to life outside the city as Abi begins working for high-tech company Integrate, developing a humanoid AI - T.I.M.

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65 (2023)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 35% Letterboxd 2.1 1h 32m

Directed by Scott Beck

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDinosaurs weaponized as prehistoric apocalypse—space-crash survivors face evolution's deadliest predators.

65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

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The Mill (2023)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 46% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 46m

Directed by Sean King O'Grady

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAncient mill machinery becomes torture apparatus—industrial technology enslaves prisoner in existential nightmare.

A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.

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The Predator (2018)

IMDb 5.3 🍅 34% 1h 47m

Directed by Shane Black

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntergalactic predator invasion weaponizes hunting as cosmic sport—Earth becomes galactic slaughterhouse.

When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

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Simulant (2023)

IMDb 5.3 🍅 41% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 35m

Directed by April Mullen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAndroid replacement threatens to usurp deceased husband's identity—simulant becomes uncanny double horror.

Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back while at the same time being on-the-run from a government agent chasing down SIMs who have become “conscious” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City poster

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 30% Letterboxd 2.0 1h 47m

Directed by Johannes Roberts

✦ MovieMuse AI takeUmbrella's bioweapon facility transforms city into undead necropolis—corporate biotech creates zombie pandemic.

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies on Hulu