‘Drop’: Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar Talk Harness Stunt and Relationships With Their Phones After Blumhouse Thriller Impresses SXSW Crowd
variety.comEmily Longeretta Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar play a pair on a first date gone very wrong in Blumhouse’s latest thriller, “Drop,” which had its world premiere at Austin’s Paramount Theater on March 9 at the SXSW TV & Film Festival.
But the duo and the event couldn’t have gone more right. In one of the loudest receptions of this year’s SXSW premieres, the crowd loudly applauded multiple times throughout the movie, which follows Fahy’s Violet as she’s on a first date with Sklenar’s Henry.
During the date, she begins receiving threatening drops sent to her phone, threatening to kill her son and sister. Soon, she’s tasked with the impossible: murder her date.
The film leans heavy into the drama and forces the audience to suspend belief in the thrilling third act, but the beautiful filming style and twisty mystery makes that all the more possible.
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