Title – Drop (2025)

Director – Christopher Langdon (Freaky)

Cast – Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar

Plot – On her first date in years, single mum Violet (Fahy) is terrorised by an unknown assailant communicating through her phone creating confusion for her and her date Henry (Sklenar) and setting in motion a dangerous game of life and death.  

“I’m playing chess while you’re playing Yahtzee”

Review by Eddie on 04/08/2025 

The newest high-concept thriller from the struggling Blumhouse production line, Drop is the type of affair where you know beforehand you’re going to need to switch your brain and better judgement into off mode but despite being one of the better looking and technically sound low-budget genre efforts you’re likely to see this year, Christopher Langdon’s increasingly undercooked effort isn’t one you’ll be overly glad you partook in.

A director who has proved in times past he has an ability to make low-budget films that can provide simplistic entertainment for willing audiences, with the Vince Vaughan starring Freaky or the Happy Death Day series proof of this, Langdon struggles to keep some early momentum in Drop going as we grow ever bored by Meghann Fahy’s Violet trying to unearth a criminal culprit taunting her while on a date with Brandon Sklenar’s charisma free date Henry.

Early on here there appears to be lots of potential for Drop to become a B movie delight as we join Violet in trying to juggle a first date after years out of the scene all the while trying to lockdown who in the fancy restaurant she finds herself in is taunting her and threatening her family but as Fahy and Sklenar fail to create sparks together and the film becomes a repetitive and progressively more far-fetched offering, the goodwill towards Drop falls all the way into general disinterest when the final revels and set-pieces arrive.

With such an over the top concept and a bizarre plan by a villain who could’ve easily accomplished their job in a much simpler fashion, Drop really needed to ramp up the fun factor and creativity to make its mark and while Langdon has a few visual tricks and technical powers to unleash across Drop’s thankfully short 90 minute running time, there’s not playfulness or payoffs here to mark his latest effort as a success, clearly represented by Drop’s dismal box office return that is yet another Blumhouse miss after years of sustained success.

Bursting onto the scene in a big way with 2009’s Paranormal Activity and riding high on the likes of Insidious, The Purge and even Whiplash, producer Jason Blum and his company have hit a genuine rough patch in recent times and one suspects crunch time is coming if they can’t manage to nail some huge hits critically and commercially soon.

Final Say –

There’s some mindless moments of fun to be found in your reservation with Drop but for the most part this over the top and bland offering gives us very little to care about or remember.

2 excitable waiters out of 5