The 'White Lotus' star plays a single mother whose attempt to get back into dating goes awry in Christopher Landon's feature, which also stars Brandon Sklenar.

Technology and trauma come together once again for Christopher Landon’s latest Blumhouse thriller Drop, a fun and satisfying ride through a first date from hell. Years after the traumatizing death of her husband,

SXSW: Meghann Fahy stars in the punchy, ridiculous thriller, 'Drop' from Christopher Landon, about a woman on the worst first date of her life.

His latest, Drop, is a modern send-up to the Hitchcockian thriller. While you might scoff when you hear a new Blumhouse movie compared to the works of Hitchcock, especially one that relies so much on the concept of smartphones.

Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar, stars of the new thriller (not horror, they say), “Drop” stopped by the L.A. Times studio at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival to talk about movie theatre pet peeves and weird photos they’ve received on their phones.

If you think you've had a bad first date, Christopher Landon's "Drop" is here to take your worst nightmare and multiply it by a thousand. It also adds a measured yet sincere performance from Meghann Fahy as a woman who finds herself being threatened over airdrop (a function where a nearby stranger can connect to your phone to share images and texts) with messages telling her that she must kill her date or her son dies.