Prime Video Just Added “One of the most exciting films of 2025”
Every year, there’s always that movie that is unfortunately swept under the rug. It’s usually a good one, more often a great one, but by sheer circumstance or bad luck, the movie never quite finds the audience it needs. This year alone, it’s buried titles like The Woman in the Yard and Presence, exceptional horror films fighting against franchise behemoths like 28 Years Later or Final Destination: Bloodlines. Another such thriller fought against the odds, and while it flopped theatrically, it’s finding new life on Prime Video. Why don’t you Drop on by and check it out?
Drop, directed by horror mainstay Christopher Landon (who also scripted this year’s underrated Heart Eyes), is ‘90s in the best way possible. The concept is simple. Chicago-based therapist Violet Gates (Meghann Fahy) is set up on a blind date with Brandon Sklenar’s Henry, a local photographer. The location? A fancy restaurant atop a tower. Breezy enough, minus the expected first-date jitters. Until, that is, someone starts dropping messages on Violet’s phone, urging her to kill her date lest she put herself and her family in jeopardy. The $28 million worldwide haul was lackluster, but luckily, Drop is finding new life on Prime Video.
I’ve always been a fan of Landon’s capacity to manage high-concept thrills alongside resonant emotion, and Drop is no different. Sure, it’s absolutely ludicrous, and the script is awash in nonsensical technobabble that would make even Sandra Bullock blush—“digi-drop” is repeated so often, you’ll claw into your armrest wishing they could just say airdrop—but in Landon’s assured genre hands, it somehow all works. Fahy and Sklenar have remarkable chemistry, and Landon milks every ounce of tension out of what’s largely a one-stage show.
Our previous Editor-in-Chief Mary Beth McAndrews referred to Drop as “one of the most exciting and entertaining films of 2025,” and I’m right there with her. Landon is a distinctly tactile filmmaker, and when the action gets going, I was enraptured by all the flames, shattered glass, and close calls with the killer(s). It’s not groundbreaking by any means, but genre doesn’t always need to function as such. Sometimes, it’s enough to sit back and have some fun. With Drop, that’s exactly what you’ll get.
Drop is now streaming on Prime Video. If you decide to check it out, let me know your thoughts over on Twitter and Instagram.
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