Christopher Abbott in “Wolf Man.”
Wolf Man — a remake of the Universal Studios Monsters classic The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jr. — begins streaming on Peacock this week.
Directed by Leigh Whannell, who directed the 2020 remake of Universal’s monster movie classic The Invisible Man, Wolf Man opened in theaters on Jan. 17.
Julia Garner (Ozark) and Christopher Abbott (Kraven the Hunter) star in Wolf Man as Charlotte and Blake, a couple with a strained marriage who travel with their young daughter, Ginger (Matilda Firth) to a remote house in the Oregon mountains that belonged to Blake’s late estranged father, Grady (Sam Jaeger).
While the family is trying to locate the abode, Blake is clawed by a werewolf and soon begins to physically transform and exhibit attributes and senses that are not human. Before too long, Blake turns into a werewolf himself, which puts Charlotte and Ginger in grave danger.
Wolf Man will begin streaming on Peacock on Friday, April 18, according to the streaming service.
Peacock offers a pair of streaming package options. Viewers can get an ad-based package for $7.99 per month or $79 per year or an ad-free package for $13.99 per month or $139.99 per year.
Julia Garner Details What Makes The New Version Of ‘Wolf Man’ Effective
Universal Studios, of course, produced the original version of The Wolf Man with Lon Chaney Jr., in 1941 and the character or other werewolf interations appeared in several follow-up movies including a the 2010 remake of The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Anthony Hopkins.
The new version of Wolf Man differs though, in the pacing of how Christopher Abbott’s Blake transforms into the werewolf and the manner in which it happens. For that reason, Julia Garner told Screen Rant in a January interview, the transformation is what makes the scares more effective.
“It’s more scary when it is a slower transition because I still recognized little elements of Chris. His skin and his hair was changing, but he still had his eyes and I think if you want to make anything scarier just go with something familiar,” Garner told Screen Rant.
“That’s why they always put dolls in horror films because you see a doll, like, almost every day,” Garner added. “So I think that this Wolf Man is almost scarier for that reason — that there’s something familiar, that Charlotte still sees her husband, but he’s not there anymore.”
Wolf Man has earned $20.7 million domestically and $14.1 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $34.6 million against a $25 million production budget before prints and advertising, per Variety.
The film received a 50% “rotten” rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 260 reviews and a 56% “rotten” score based on 1,000-plus verified user ratings from audience members.
Rated R, Wolf Man arrives on streaming video on demand on Peacock on Friday.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/04/16/horror-thriller-wolf-man-coming-to-streaming-on-peacock-this-week/