"Drop" New Trailer: A Woman's Worst Date Turns Into a Deadly Ultimatum in Blumhouse's New Horror Thriller, Starring Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar
Meghann Fahy stars in this new tense Blumhouse thriller about a blind date, a kidnapped child, and a terrifying choice—kill or be killed!
Who hasn’t been on a bad date? But at least we can all take comfort in knowing we’ve never had a date so disastrous that it turned deadly.
Drop, a new Blumhouse thriller, isn’t just a date-night-gone-wrong story—it’s a full-blown hostage horror!
Meghann Fahy stars as a woman thrown into a tense and terrifying scenario where she’s given an unthinkable ultimatum: kill her blind date, or her young son will be murdered.
So, a second date is totally out of the question, right?
From Christopher Landon, the director behind Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U, and Freaky, this nerve-racking horror thriller recently premiered at SXSW, where critics were over the moon. It currently holds an 88% score on the Tomatometer.
Fahy—best known for her Emmy-nominated performance in The White Lotus Season 2—plays Violet, a single mother finally carving out some time for herself. She sets up a date with Henry (Brandon Sklenar of 1923 and It Ends with Us), a charming guy she met online. The two meet at a sleek rooftop restaurant overlooking the city skyline.
But just as the night begins, Violet receives a mysterious “digiDrop”—an anonymous text message claiming her son has been kidnapped. The demand? Kill Henry, or her son dies.
The nightmare only escalates as more ominous messages roll in, threatening not just her child but the other innocent diners around them. Violet quickly realizes that the sadistic puppet master pulling the strings is somewhere inside the restaurant—and she’s running out of time to uncover who it is before she’s forced to do the unthinkable.
What would you do in her place?
Essentially a one-location pressure cooker, Drop is written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach, the screenwriters behind Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare and Fantasy Island.
Produced by Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Studios, the film also stars Violett Beane, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, and Reed Diamond.
Drop hits theaters April 11th. Just maybe leave your phone on airplane mode—or better yet, leave it at home.
Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
First dates are nerve-wracking enough. Going on a first date while an unnamed, unseen troll pings you personal memes that escalate from annoying to homicidal? Blood-chilling.
Director Christopher Landon returns to the thriller genre with the playful, keep-you-guessing intensity he perfected in the Happy Death Day films with this of-the-moment whodunnit where everyone in the vicinity is a suspect . . . or victim.
Emmy nominee Meghann Fahy, breakout star of White Lotus and The Perfect Couple, plays Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, who arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry (It Ends with Us’ Brandon Sklenar) is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone. She is instructed to tell nobody and follow instructions or the hooded figure she sees on her home security cameras will kill Violet’s young son and babysitting sister. Violet must do exactly as directed or everyone she loves will die. Her unseen tormentor’s final directive? Kill Henry.
