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,

Netflix has just added what fans believe was the best horror film of 2023, and it's certainly worth a watch with that cast.

Horror fans feasted well in 2024 with the year capped off by the release of Nosferatu (even if UK viewers had to wait until New Year's Day), and we haven't had to wait too long for the first stand-out horror of 2025.

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.

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