Drop

From director Christopher Landon (the Happy Death Day films, Freaky) and screenwriters Jillian Jacobs (Fantasy Island) and Chris Roach (Non-Stop), Drop is a mystery thriller that gets more wrapped up in a forced mystery than providing anything resembling actual thrills.

Violet (Meghann Fahy) is a widow and a domestic abuse survivor. She has prioritized her son for so long that shes forgotten what its like to try to meet someone. After using a dating app and finding someone she felt like there was a connection with, Violet agrees to meet up with Henry (Brandon Sklenar) the guy shes been talking to for a first date.

The date starts decent enough, but Violent begins getting strange memes AirDropped to her iPhone. She ignores them at firs...

'Drop' is a great thriller! I was hooked for every minute. It gave me vibes of 2024's 'Carry-On', which is a film I also enjoyed. This one - albeit certainly different - has similarities, but it is much more atmospheric. It left me on fair tenterhooks, that's for sure.

The performances are excellent, particularly from leads Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar. In the midst of the drama, there is actually a pretty solid romance in there featuring those two; they share terrific chemistry, despite also giving the necessary edge of first date awkwardness.

I enjoyed how the film portrayed the messaging, each one is shown onscreen in a clear but not in an in-your-face or an eyesore-y manner; the font/effects fitted with the ambience that the f...

Violet (Meghann Fahy) hasnt been on a date for years, since her husband died and left her to bring up their young son Toby (Jacob Robinson) on her own. Tonights the night, though, and so having been talked out of wearing a deckchair by her sister Jen (Violett Beane) she sets off to a rooftop restaurant for a rendezvous with her hunky online pal Henry (Brandon Sklenar). Things dont go so well for her as no sooner has she sat down than she starts to get dodgy text messages, then her (extensive) home security system shows there to be a black-clad gent in her living room and he isnt there to deliver the Milk Tray! Over the course of this increasingly perilous date, she is being given instructions that involve her in a cunning scheme to dispose ...