The new Blumhouse movie Drop, which is coming to theaters this Friday, might just be the first AirDrop-based horror movie. You have to respect a film that keeps up with the culture!
Directed by horror filmmaker Christopher Landon (known for the Paranormal Activity and Happy Death Day franchises), with a screenplay written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach, Drop stars White Lotus actor Meghann Fahy as a single mother putting herself out there on a date, when she receives a series of anonymous messages AirDropped to her iPhone. The messages instruct her to follow orders and tell no one, lest her younger sister (Violett Beane) and young son (Jacob Robinson) be killed.
Also starring Brandon Sklenar, Reed Diamond, Ben Pelletier, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, and Travis Nelson, Drop sounds like the kind of fun, entertaining, and silly horror movie that we could all use to help us take our mind off of the horrors of the real for a few hours. Here’s what to know about where to watch the Drop movie, and when we expect to see Drop streaming on Peacock.
Drop will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. on Friday, April 11 in theaters nationwide. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. Drop is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.
Drop is not streaming on Netflix, and likely will not be on Netflix any time soon, due to the fact that the film is a Universal release. Almost all Universal movies go to the NBCUniversal streaming platform, Peacock.
You will be able to purchase Drop on Prime Video eventually, when the movie becomes available to buy and rent on digital, but you will not be able to stream Drop for free on Prime Video any time soon, because it is not a Prime original movie. If you want to watch the Drop movie at home, you’ll have to wait for the film to be available to buy or rent on digital platforms, or wait for it to stream on Peacock.
Drop is not yet streaming on Peacock. Right now, the movie is only in theaters. That said, we do expect to see Drop streaming on Peacock eventually, but we’re not sure when. Another Universal release, Wolf Man, will be streaming on Peacock on April 18, which was about three months after the movie opened in theaters, and about two months after the film released on digital.
If Drop follows a similar release pattern, you might see the movie on digital by May 2025, and streaming on Peacock around August 2025.
This is all speculation. Universal has not had a consistent digital release strategy. Nosferatu, for example, took just two months to stream on Peacock, rather than three. So it’s possible you’ll see Drop streaming on Peacock by July. But if you want to watch the Drop movie right away, your best bet is to catch the movie in theaters.