The 3 Must-Watch Horror Movies Haunting Hulu and HBO Max This April 2026
Good Boy, one of last year’s best horror movies, claws onto Hulu later this month—miss it at your peril. The indie breakout also joins Watch With Us’ must-stream horror picks on Hulu and HBO Max.
April is coming in hot with three horror picks worth your time across Hulu, HBO Max, and Netflix. Leading the pack is last year’s indie breakout that finally hits Hulu, followed by Guillermo del Toro’s first feature, and capped off with a 2026 sequel to the movie that dragged zombies back into the multiplex. Here’s what to queue and why.
Good Boy (2025 ) — Hulu on April 25
This one is genuinely unusual in the best way: it ’s a horror movie told almost entirely from a dog’s point of view. Director and co-writer Ben Leonberg literally cast his own dog, Indy, as the lead. The setup is simple and quietly brutal. Indy and his person, Todd (Shane Jensen), hole up in a remote cabin because Todd’s health is failing. Indy can tell right away that something malevolent is sharing the house with them. The problem is obvious — he’s a dog. He can’t explain the whispers and the weirdness to Todd, and every time he panics, Todd assumes it’s a training issue.
There’s baggage baked into the location, too. Todd’s grandfather (Larry Fessenden) died in that very house — and so did the man’s dog. So Indy’s not just trying to protect Todd; he’s trying to make sure both of them don’t end up like the last pair who lived there. If you skipped this in theaters, now’s your chance: it lands on Hulu April 25.
Cronos (1993) — HBO Max
Guillermo del Toro’s debut is a Mexican horror fable with bite. The late Federico Luppi stars as Jesús Gris, an antiques dealer who stumbles onto a device crafted centuries ago by an alchemist. It can prolong life — basically a rough draft of immortality — but the price is ugly. Jesús starts showing vampire-adjacent symptoms, including an aversion to sunlight and a growing thirst for blood. His granddaughter, Aurora Gris (Tamara Shanath), senses something is off, but the bigger danger is external: a wealthy industrialist, Dieter de la Guardia (Claudio Brook), knows about the device and wants it at any cost, and his nephew, Angel de la Guardia (Ron Perlman), has orders to remove anyone in the way. It’s a hell of a first swing from one of the genre’s most acclaimed directors, and it’s streaming on HBO Max.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) — Netflix
Smart move: watch 28 Years Later first. Conveniently, both films are on Netflix, so you can make it a double feature. The sequel is set nearly three decades after the rage virus tore through the UK. Dr Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) befriends Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry), one of the infected, and uncovers something huge: the rage virus might actually be treatable. That doesn’t make the infected safe overnight, and meanwhile there’s a whole other nightmare brewing. Spike (Alfie Williams) owes his life to Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell), who turns out to be a full-on lunatic leading a cult of Satan worshipers. If Spike wants to get out alive, he’ll have to learn to kill on instinct and fast. The Bone Temple is streaming now on Netflix.