Drop

Drop (2025) (trailer)

Horror-adjacent as a suspense film with some violent elements, from Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day and 2U, Freaky) and harking back to his earlier Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones in its use of surveillance technology. Nothing supernatural involved and funny in places but mostly his first “serious” movie.

A single mother on a first date receives threatening anonymous messages on her phone, escalating to a command to kill her date and home camera footage showing an armed and masked man in her house. The messages are off-brand Airdrop, meaning they can only be coming from fifty feet away at most, so they’re being sent by someone in the restaurant.

Mostly staying in one place in the style of Wes Craven’s Red Eye (with which it shares a structural issue but never mind) largely laser focused on Meghann Fahy as Violet, and sometimes playing with stylised lighting to add to the play-like feel, it’s a lot of fun.

Content warning for portrayals of domestic abuse. (Odd fit for the overall tone.)