{"id":275302,"date":"2025-11-21T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275302\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:25:10","slug":"one-of-2025s-best-thrillers-that-will-keep-you-guessing-lands-new-uk-streaming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/275302\/","title":{"rendered":"One of 2025’s best thrillers that “will keep you guessing” lands new UK streaming home"},"content":{"rendered":"

As 2025 is drawing to a close, it’s safe to say we’ve been treated to many great tense films this year, with one of the most compelling now available to stream on a new platform in the UK.
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Starring The White Lotus’ Meghann Fahy and 1923’s Brandon Sklenar, Christopher Landon’s thriller Drop has just landed on Sky Cinema and NOW for those with a Cinema subscription.
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The claustrophobic film is written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach and sees Fahy’s character Violet Gates, a therapist and widowed mother of one, going on her first date in years only to find herself in a hostage situation. <\/p>\n

As far as bad first dates go, we wouldn’t blame Violet for being forever traumatised over this one. <\/p>\n

As she’s waiting for her date, photographer Henry Campbell, Violet starts receiving “Digi-Drops” from an anonymous sender nearby.<\/p>\n

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Related: Netflix’s “chilling” new thriller that leaves you “entertained the whole time” hits top of UK chart<\/a><\/p>\n

The increasingly threatening texts continue as the pair enjoy a fancy dinner at a high-end Chicago restaurant. <\/p>\n

Soon, Violet realises the sender is watching her every move and any attempt to alert the staff or escape would be pointless as she’s tasked with murdering one of the diners.<\/p>\n

We won’t spoil the surprise twist \u2014 better go in knowing as little as possible and revel in Fahy’s dramatic performance as Violet is trying to make sense of her nightmare.<\/p>\n

When it hit cinemas back in April, Digital Spy predicted the movie would be a sleeper box-office hit and praised the “hookable” and “irresistible” concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Related: Best streaming services in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t just take our word for it as Drop is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 83% out of 235 reviews. <\/p>\n

Other critics delighted in the deranged tone of the film, as The Sunday Independent (Ireland)<\/a> reviewed Drop as a “demented tech thriller” that “will keep you guessing” and The New York Times<\/a> called it “pleasantly silly”. <\/p>\n

As the temperatures out there are, well, dropping (bad pun intended), Drop is an excellent choice for a cosy movie night in. If you do watch it with a date though, better put your phone away.<\/p>\n

Drop is streaming on Sky Cinema and NOW.<\/p>\n

The new edition of Living Legends is here! Buy Ariana & Witches in newsagents or online<\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99.
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Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times<\/a> and Digital Spy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As 2025 is drawing to a close, it’s safe to say we’ve been treated to many great tense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[379,112850,381,96,1156,2839,112849,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-275302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-ef79cb5b-563a-419c-b732-bd607ac76b09","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-one-of-2025s-best-thrillers-is-now-streaming","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}