Red Sonja Starring Matilda Lutz Now Streaming On Tubi

This is a great opportunity not only for Red Sonja fans who may not have seen the film yet, but also for anyone interested in sword-and-sorcery movies. It’s a shame the theatrical window was basically a blink-and-you-miss-it event, but Tubi is the perfect platform to finally give the film a wider, global audience. The streaming service already features plenty of fan-favorite fantasy films, and Red Sonja is a worthy addition to the list. For those who already caught it, this is the perfect excuse for a rewatch. Tubi has not made the movie available on its Canadian platform, and it’s possible that might be the same for some other countries.

The film had a highly limited theatrical run in August 2025, followed by a VOD release on various platforms later that month. A physical release hit the UK and US in the fall. While the Blu-ray remains the best way to watch the film in all its uncompressed glory, Tubi now allows a much larger audience to experience the latest cinematic outing of the She-Devil with a Sword.

This release was highly anticipated after several false starts since the original Red Sonja film starring Brigitte Nielsen was released in 1985. I was incredibly enheartened when M.J. Bassett took over directorial duties. Bassett’s take on Solomon Kane (2009) was a sleeper hit that truly captured the gritty essence of the Puritan swashbuckler’s world and adventures. That track record boded well for Red Sonja, and Bassett delivered. Proving her mastery of the genre once again, she brought that same indie-action resourcefulness to the table, keeping the focus on grounded, brutal combat over flashy studio spectacle.

While fans were divided on the movie as a whole, Matilda Lutz’s interpretation of the Red Goddess was undeniably impressive. Lutz brought a raw, visceral energy to the role, channeling the exact same intensity she delivered in the thriller Revenge.

The scene where she strides onto the arena’s sand in the closest thing we’ll ever get to the trademark iron bikini is iconic. Bassett and Lutz collaborated to bring a modern Red Sonja to life—one that still embodies the core essence of the original comic book character while appealing to both old and new fans alike.

Hopefully, this widespread streaming release will make the movie more visible to a massive audience, which might eventually lead to the production of more Red Sonja films or even a series.

In the meantime, as we wait for Sonja’s cinematic future to unfold, Dynamite Entertainment is still regaling us with monthly tales of the She-Devil in comic book form. Fans can look forward to the brand-new series, Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword #1, hitting comic shop shelves on May 6th (read a quick preview here: https://www.comicsforsinners.com/red-sonja-is-back-in-a-brand-new-series/).

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Jules-Pierre Malartre currently lives on a small island west of Montreal (Quebec), which is as close to the Great White North that he will ever dare go, but still cold enough to save him from big-ass spiders, alien abductions, undead dinosaurs and tourists who find his French accent charming. In 2005, he quit a promising aerospace engineering career to go into freelance writing, which was a very, very bad idea according to his mother. Since then, he has become considerably poorer, but he has grown much happier. Along the way, he adopted cats—lots of cats! When he is not writing technical manuals, newspaper articles, press releases or blogs on anything from comic books to yoga, he is busy working on his first novel, a semi-autobiographical fictional account of his life that dares to ask the question, “where did God go wrong with me anyway?” His first short story, “The Rest Was Easy,” was published by the online literary magazine Amarillo Bay in 2013. The five people who read it liked it. He’s well aware that it took him over a decade to publish another one, so he’d really appreciate it if you'd cut him some slack about it! He loves coffee, cats and reading, mostly because those three things go very well together.