10 Recent Horror Movies That Were ALMOST Amazing
8. Drop
If nothing else, Christopher Landon's Drop touted one hell of a Hitchcock-for-the-smartphone-era setup, as a windowed single mother, Violet (Meghann Fahy), finds herself being terrorised by threatening AirDrops while out on a date at a restaurant, which ultimately threatens her family's safety.
And to Landon's credit, he has a lot of fun turning the screws in the movie's first two acts, continually dialling up the suspense as Violet's predicament becomes ever-more dire, while audiences rack their brains trying to figure out who the nearby culprit might be.
Yet despite a game performance from Meghann Fahy in the lead role, Drop ultimately unfurls in its creaky clunker of a third act as it descends into unrepentant schlock.
From a predictable and underwhelming villain reveal to some extremely silly high-wire action, Drop becomes pure, daft camp in the final stretch in a way that totally undermines the more stylish and composed thrills of the first hour. So close.