First dates can be nerve-wracking, let alone when you’re pressured by anonymous threats urging you to kill your date. It happens to The Perfect Couple actress Meghann Fahy in the new horror film Drop (2025). Watch the blood-curdling trailer below.
First date
When Violet, a widowed mother, arrives on her first date with Henry, she is relieved to find him more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle when Violet becomes irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous phone calls
She is ordered not to tell anyone and to follow instructions or the hooded figure she sees on the home security cameras will kill Violet’s young son and babysitting sister. Violet must do exactly as she is told or everyone she loves will die. The final directive from her invisible tormentor? Kill Henry.
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The role of Violet is played by The White Lotus star Meghann Fahy and It Ends With Us actor Brandon Sklenar stars as Henry. The remaining cast consists of Violett Beane (Truth or Dare (2018)), newcomer Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks and Travis Nelson.
Director Christopher Landon co-wrote almost all of the Paranormal Activity films (except the first) and also directed the Happy Death Day films and Freaky (2020). The new thriller is produced by Jason Blum, the man behind horror hits like Insidious (2010) in M3GAN (2022)and Transformers director Michael Bay.
Drop runs from Thursday 10 april at the cinema. For a complete overview of all new films that will soon appear on the silver screen, you can go here.

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