First dates can be murder. This is especially true for Violet (Meghann Fahy), the heroine of Christopher Landon’s latest high-concept thriller, Drop, who receives anonymous and increasingly threatening messages on her cellphone while on her first night out following the death of her husband.

The evening comes to a head when she is ordered to murder her date, Henry (Brandon Sklenar), or risk her young son being killed instead.

Fahy, best known for her performance in season two of The White Lotus, is convincingly discombobulated as Violet, a victim of domestic abuse who is taking her first tentative steps back out into the dating world.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here