A month’s worth of scary programming heads to Hulu with its annual “Huluween” celebration starting today. Viewers can head to Hulu’s personalized, Halloween-themed hub for a bone-chilling selection of popular Halloween TV episodes and movies, featuring 800 premium Halloween titles and more than 5,000 episodes of new and library TV series.
- The curated experience will also bring fans exclusive, new content throughout the month, including seven spooky short films from up-and-coming filmmakers, selected in collaboration with Sundance Institute, and the premieres of returning Original series Castle Rock, Light as a Feather, and Into the Dark and the highly anticipated Hulu original films Little Monsters and Wounds.
- The Huluween Film Fest, will give seven up-and-coming filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their horror-themed short films on Hulu throughout the month.
- Collaboratively curated with the Sundance Film Institute, the short films, including – Hidden Mother, Ride, Swiped to Death, Flagged, Undo, The Dunes and The Ripper – will premiere today, Tuesday, October 1 in conjunction with the Huluween experience and on Hulu’s social channels.
- The filmmaker with the highest level of engagement on Hulu and Hulu's YouTube channel will win $50,000 towards production of their feature length film.
- Hulu and Blumhouse Television returns with the year-round horror event Hulu Original Series, Into The Dark with a special Halloween episode, “Uncanny Annie,” launching on October 4.
- The new episode follows a group of college students who get trapped in a mysterious board game that brings their darkest secrets and fears to life, where they must play to escape… and win to survive.
- Hulu Original Series Light As A Feather, produced by AwesomenessTV, Wattpad and Grammnet, also returns to the service October 4
- Doubling down by playing a new round of “Light as a Feather” putting all their lives on the line, Season 2 continues as McKenna and friends are optimistic that they’re finally done with the curse. But is the curse done with them?
- Hulu Original Film Little Monsters makes its streaming premiere on Friday, October 11.
- Starring Academy Award-Winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad and Alexander England, the critically-acclaimed Australian horror comedy begins with a harmless school field trip which ends with a zombie outbreak. Little Monsters world-premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
- Written and Directed by Under The Shadow’s Babak Anvari, Wounds streams on Hulu on October 18.
- The feature film follows the story of a New Orleans bartender whose life begins to unravel after a series of disturbing and inexplicable events that begin to happen to him after picking up a phone left behind at a bar.
- With a star studded cast including Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson and Zazie Beets, Wounds also made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019 followed by a screening at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019.
- Rounding out the month of Original premieres, Hulu’s critically acclaimed series Castle Rock returns for Season 2 on October 23.
- Season 2 follows a feud between warring clans that comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, Stephen King’s nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.
- And finally, Zomboat!, a zombie-horror-comedy import, will premiere on Friday, October 25 in co-production with iTV.
- The series features a pair of sisters as they escape the apocalypse with the help of Dorothy, an early-80’s wood paneled canal boat.
- Huluween begins today with the launch of the Huluween content hub.