“Drop” (2025)
I wasn’t sure what to expect going into “Drop,” but I knew I wanted to see it after loving Meghann Fahy’s performance on “The White Lotus.”
Violet (Fahy) is a domestic abuse survivor who is finally putting herself back out there and going on a date with Henry (Brandon Sklenar), who she’s been talking to on a dating app for a while.
They have cute chemistry, but things take a turn when she starts getting persistent air drop messages that reach a head when the mysterious messenger tells her to take a look at her house camera, where her young son and her sister are for the evening. A masked figure appears on camera.
The mysterious messenger then starts demanding increasingly tricky and dangerous tasks be carried out by Violet, all with the caveat that she can’t alert Henry to what’s going on.
“Drop” is being billed as the latest from Blumhouse and the director of “Happy Death Day” (Christopher Landon), which might scare folks who don’t like horror away. However, this movie is firmly more on the thriller side, a 21st-century take on the Hitchcockian classics.
It is by no means a perfect thriller, but “Drop” is a fun way to spend a couple hours at the theater. Its pacing and the lead performance by Fahy kept me on the edge of my seat, wondering how this premise will play out.