- Violett Beane, Brandon Sklenar, Meghann Fahy, Ed Weeks
- April 11th 2025
- 95
- Christopher Landon
Meghann Fahy plays a widowed single mother who ends up on the first date from hell when she becomes terrorised by random texts.
Meghann Fahy has been slowly plugging away in supporting roles and she’s finally getting her leading lady moment in the thriller Drop.
In Christopher Landon’s new movie, The White Lotus actress plays widowed single mother Violet, who meets her dating app match Henry (Brandon Sklenar) at the upscale restaurant Palate for their first date.
Things go awry immediately when Violet begins to receive ‘drops’ to her phone from another person in the restaurant. They start off relatively harmless – albeit unsettling – before becoming more and more threatening.
Violet must carry out the instructions – without telling her date what’s wrong – otherwise her son will be killed.
Who is messaging her and what to they want? There’s only one way to find out.
Drop is a ridiculous, high-concept thriller that is best enjoyed if you don’t examine it too closely and just go on the crazy ride.
Landon slowly builds the stakes and tension and you become fully invested in Violet and want her to come out of this situation alive.
The writing is great in the beginning, particularly at the start of the date, but it gets progressively worse as the plot becomes more silly and contrived, with the on-screen text threats becomingly laughable cliched.
The whole plan is very elaborate way to get somebody to kill someone else, and you can’t help but think there must have been an easier way of achieving this.
Despite the silly concept, Fahy plays it totally straight and throws her all into this role. She does really well at building her character’s distress, especially as she’s reacting to nothing during the filming.
She makes the material better and turns Violet into this resourceful, authentic person instead of a basic stereotype.
As her date, Sklenar plays Henry as the nicest, most patient man in the world. This is the first date from hell and it’s a miracle he hasn’t run for the hills.
All in all, Drop proves why Fahy deserves to be a leading lady more often – she elevates the story and acts her socks off. More lead roles for her please!
In cinemas from Friday 11th April.
By Hannah Wales.
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