Pretty People in a Popcorn Flick

What’s not to love? Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar elevate Drop

- MARA REINSTEIN

Goodbye to the days when a ringing landline and an unknown caller could spook someone on the big screen! In Drop (in theaters April 11), our heroine is terrorized via a series of AirDrop text messages on her phone. But all the tech trauma — combined with an absurd yet intriguing premise — leads to a totally taut Blumhouse mystery.

Violet (Meghann Fahy, The Perfect Couple) earns our empathy from the start. A widowed mother who’s survived abuse, she’s decided to enter the dreaded online dating world. Now she’s in jittery anticipation of meeting Henry (Brandon Sklenar from