The 10 Weirdest, Most Non-Disney Movies to Watch on Hulu Right Now
Disney+ and Hulu are now a single destination, after a beta period designed in part to let parents fiddle with the settings ahead of Disney+’s impending influx of edgier titles. But the gates are open now, kiddos—so here are 10 wonderfully weird movies (and one TV series) you can watch on Hulu through Disney+.
Predator 2
Predator is the action classic; Prey is the excellently imaginative prequel. You can watch both on Hulu as well. But the most delightfully trashy entry in the series is 1990's Predator 2, which stars Danny Glover as an cop in Los Angeles, circa 1997, who discovers the uptick in brutal violence he’s seeing at crime scenes is not in fact the result of gang wars, but rather bloodthirsty alien visitors. Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
Poor Things
Sure, Poor Things just picked up a ton of Oscars—including Best Actress for Emma Stone—but it also has some serious cult-movie tendencies; those Mouse House parental controls were definitely intended for titles like this. Now at last you can utilize Hulu through Disney+ to learn Bella Baxter’s distinctive, floor-clearing dance moves ahead of summer wedding season.
Damien: The Omen II
With The First Omen arriving on Friday, Hulu has just added the entire Omen saga for your Satanic enjoyment. The 1976 original is obviously a horror classic, but the 1978 sequel—which ages Damien Thorne up to his hell-raising teenage years—is absolutely underrated and has some seriously harrowing moments. Your mileage may vary on Omen III: The Final Conflict (starring Sam Neill!) and Omen IV: The Awakening (which asks, “What if the Antichrist was a little girl?”), but the 2006 remake is for completists only. Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
Skinamarink
On the same app streaming every sweet G-rated Disney classic that teaches kids to believe in their dreams, you can flip over to this deliberately lo-fi 2022 experimental film that’s all about kids coming to realize their nightmares are, in fact, totally and completely real. What a time to be alive! Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
Prometheus
Fans of the long-running sci-fi horror franchise can pick from Alien, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection, as well as both Alien vs. Predator entries, while they wait for Alien: Romulus and the TV series to arrive. But while Aliens and Alien: Covenant are absent, 2012's Prometheus—Ridley Scott’s first series prequel—is available for reappraisal. The movie might not come close to the first two Alien films overall, but the scene in which Noomi Rapace performs emergency self-surgery on the unwanted alien invader that’s growing inside her is an all-timer. Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
Censor
This 2021 release follows a young woman whose job—working as a 1980s film censor at the height of Britain’s “video nasty” panic—provides fascinating historical context, not to mention a perfectly unsettling milieu as she becomes obsessed with the idea that she’s spotted her long-missing sister in a sleazy exploitation film. Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
Day of the Dead
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Kids who’ve graduated from watching those Disney Channel Original Zombies films can now flip over to George A. Romero’s 1985 capper to his own original zombie trilogy, set in a Florida bunker amid soldiers and scientists trying to figure out an endgame for the post-apocalypse. Day of the Dead has far fewer musical numbers than Zombies, but it has exponentially more gruesomely eviscerated body parts. Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
Dog Soldiers
“Werewolves target a squad of soldiers,” reads the Hulu description, which accurate but also fails the capture the way writer-director Neil Marshall—who made his feature debut with Dog Soldiers in 2002—perfectly blends the military and horror genres. How about “Weary soldiers on a training mission somehow make for the perfect creature-feature protagonists” instead? Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
The Eyes of My Mother
Another debut film, this 2016 release from writer-director Nicolas Pesce explores the strange life of a woman who grows up on an isolated farm protecting some rather extreme family secrets—then starts adding her own dirty deeds to the pile. The Eyes of My Mother is shot in beautifully bleak black and white, a choice that amplifies its artistic qualities while also protecting the viewer from what would otherwise be some extremely vivid gore. Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
Castle Rock
Max has that long-promised It prequel series Welcome to Derry in the works, but in the meantime, treat yourself to the two seasons we were lucky to get of Castle Rock. Rather than a straight adaptation of any one book or story, it weaves various Stephen King threads into its own “small town where bad, bad things happen” narrative. It captures the eerie essence of King perfectly, and the cast (Sissy Spacek, Bill Skarsgård, Melanie Lynskey, Lizzy Caplan) is top-notch. Watch on Hulu through Disney+.
