The rusty-red radio tower sticks out of the completely flat American landscape like a needle into the blue sky. Adrenaline junkie Hunter (Virginia Gardner) wants the steel structure as Dare for her social media followers (illegally) climb. Her friend Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) even had to persuade her to come along after she lost a loved one on their last climb together.
Scott Mann’s case on Amazon starts off a bit bumpy into familiar clichés, but once the two young women soar, that’s forgotten.
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Fall – Fear Reaches New Heights
I’m actually not afraid of heights. I thought. But Fall still manages to make me break out in a cold sweat with every additional rung on the ladder. Because the thriller understands Amazon Prime in an incomparable way, a never forget the enormous distance to the ground. In the staging, the seemingly endless tower that reaches down into the depths becomes the anchor of our fear. With the movie title in mind, which sets up the catastrophe of a fatal fall as a constant threat, your nails will be chewed down in no time.
Vertical and Emotional Horror: Fall Takes Unexpected Directions
The horror of this struggle for survival comes in stages: first the altitude, then the denied way back in the form of a broken ladder, the lack of cell phone reception and finally the lack of water, which makes the rescue attempts more and more daring. Creeping doom convincingly alternates with adrenaline rushes of pure panic. Nevertheless, Fall always manages to surprise. And that, although at the beginning one still thought that when climbing a tower (direction: upwards or downwards), the events were very limited and predictable.
The vertical thriller’s local limitations match it’s horizontal range emotionally gripping story out of. Because between all the near crashes and outbursts of desperation, Fall still manages to make credible comments about friendship and internet fame.
The unexpected twist at the end of the film will not be revealed at this point. Like altitude, it has to be experienced at Amazon to really feel it.
And if that’s not enough for you, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) is the icing on the cake as a guest appearance.
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