Of course, stars Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar, as well as director Christopher Landon, all have some IRL AirDrop stories of their own—just not as nightmarish, hopefully? You’ve heard of bad first dates,

Christopher LandonScreenwriter: Jillian Jacobs, Chris RoachLogline: A widowed mother (Meghann Fahy), on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she meets her handsome date. But their chemistry begins to curdle as she begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.

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.

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.

With Landon’s visually striking Hitchcock-ian direction, screenwriters Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach provide a fun tech-driven update on the urban legend that spawned 1979’s When a Stranger Calls (and its fun 2006 remake) as the drops come from inside the house.

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.

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

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.

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.

Drop starring Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar premiered at the SXSW film festival this weekend ahead of its April release, and first reactions are overwhelmingly positive. Meghann Fahy stars as Violet,