Film Review - Drop (2025)

Drop is the new horror film by Christopher Landon who also made Happy Death Day and Freaky and stars Meghann Fahy as Violet, a widow with a young son who goes on a first date with photographer Henry (Brandon Sklenar from 1923) but during their evening she gets mysterious air drops on her phone telling her to kill her date or her young son will be murdered.

Drop shows once again why Chris Landon for the most part does great horror movies, he doesn’t just couch them in the usual “evil person with a metal blade” running around and carving up young teens like their animals in the wild their couched in a fun concept at their core be it repeating the same day in HDD, body swapping Captain Ginyu style in Freaky or “Kill your Date or I Kill Your Son” in this movie and Landon does a great job generating tension and suspense throughout the film and its single location of a Chicago high rise restaurant and the way he moves the camera around also won me over as well.

The cast also deliver the goods as well mainly Fahy and Sklenar who have great chemistry together even though at times I was thinking of Julia Schalepfer from 1923 and the chemistry she and Sklenar had in that show and how once again he is romancing a young blonde woman and as someone who was a big fan of 1923 it was hard for me not to want to make that comparison.

Where this movie does sadly fall over somewhat is its use of domestic violence in a key sideplot, this issue is far too serious to be in what should be a fun high concept horror movie and it could’ve easily been removed with only some minor tweaks to the script and I think the movie would’ve worked just as well if not better without it.

And so that was Drop and once more another movie comes along that shows 2025 as an overall movie year off to a strong start with a fun concept well executed with a great duo of leads, 3 and a half out of 5.