Meghann Fahy

Interview: Christopher Landon on directing Drop, calibrating thrills, and inverting the damsel in distress trope

First dates are nerve-wracking enough.  Going on a first date while an unnamed, unseen troll pings you personal memes that escalate from annoying to homicidal? Blood-chilling! Returning to the thriller genre with the playful, keep-you-guessing intensity he perfected in the Happy Death Day films, director Christopher Landon delivers an of-the-moment whodunnit where everyone in the…

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Film Review: Drop; Cat-and-mouse thriller easily maintains its sense of entertaining tension

However far fetched Drop proves to be with its wild, pulling-the-wool-over-our-eyes premise, director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) and screenwriters Jillian Jacobs (Fantasy Island) and Chris Roach (Non-Stop) maintain a sense of unpredictable fun across the film’s tight 95 minutes as it presents a cat-and-mouse thriller ripe for the digital age. After opening with…

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Film Review: Your Monster is a deliciously deranged win for original cinema

It’s not an uncommon trope for a female character to be introduced to her audience at her lowest moment.  She indulges in a sense of self-loathing (we’ve all been there) and through either her friends, her career or a fresh male presence, she builds herself back up and becomes the best version of herself. In…

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