The 2025 Wolf Man movie is finally opening in theaters this weekend, over a decade after Universal announced it was remaking the classic horror film.
Director Leigh Whannell—who already saw great success with his 2020 remake of The Invisible Man—has turned his talents to adapting another classic Universal Monster movie, aka 1941’s The Wolf Man. In the 2025 movie, Christopher Abbott steps into the role previously played by Claude Rains: a man bitten by a werewolf who is then plagued by lycanthropy himself. Julia Garner stars as Abbott’s horrified wife, and Matilda Firth stars as their traumatized daughter. How can a man protect his family from the monster when he is the monster?
Written by Whannell and Corbett Tuck, and produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions, Wolf Man is sure to kick off the 2025 movie season with some scares. Here’s what to know about where to watch the new Wolf Man movie, and when we expect to see the 2025 Wolf Man movie streaming on Peacock.
Wolf Man will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. on Friday, January 17 in theaters nationwide. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. Wolf Man is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.
Wolf Man 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 Wolf Man on Prime Video eventually, when the movie becomes available to buy and rent on digital, but you will not be able to stream Wolf Man for free on Prime Video any time soon, because it is not a Prime original movie. If you want to watch the Wolf Man 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.
Wolf Man is not yet streaming on Peacock. Right now, the movie is only in theaters. That said, we do expect to see Wolf Man streaming on Peacock eventually, but we’re not sure when. Another Universal release, Speak No Evil, began streaming on Peacock on December 6, which was about three months after the movie opened in theaters, and about two months after the film released on digital.
If Wolf Man follows a similar release pattern, you might see the movie on digital by February 2025, and streaming on Peacock around April 2025.
This is all speculation. Universal has not had a consistent digital release strategy. If you want to watch Wolf Man movie right away, you can catch the movie in theaters. You can also stream the original 1941 The Wolf Man movie on Peacock.