A highly digitised Dublin stands in for Chicago in this stylish little thriller from Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. Meghann Fahy, break-out star of The White Lotus, plays Violet, a nervy psychotherapist recovering from an abusive marriage who goes on her first date in five years only to become trapped in a vicious game of blackmail with a mysterious stranger.
Watch our interview with Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar
By the time she's seated in an upmarket restaurant - with a vertiginous view of the city skyline - with her date, handsome photographer Henry (It Ends With Us star Brandon Skelnar), than she begins receiving a series of increasingly threatening AirDrops on her phone.
Rather than let the curse of mobile phones stymie the plot, Drop boldly embraces tech as the central conceit. Shot in real time and mostly in one room, it’s a brisk 95 minutes than fits a lot into the short running time, including a cautionary tale about the toxic trench that is social media, just how creepy technology can be and themes of claustrophobia and entrapment.
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Drop is a neat little movie that recalls airborne thriller Red Eye and Colin Farrell’s Phone Booth and it has some of twitchy paranoia of Hitchcock and De Palma but with a thoroughly modern twist.
