‘Fall 2: Deadpoint’ movie review: Time to eat your fears once more
The film 'Fall 2: Deadpoint' follows two sisters who attempt a dangerous cliff-side hike in Thailand to process grief. The movie serves as a survival thriller that utilizes high-altitude tension and callbacks to its predecessor.
Why it matters
It highlights the ongoing popularity of high-concept survival thrillers in modern cinema and the evolution of franchise storytelling.
The fear of falling is an elemental one, running contrary to the human desire to conquer heights. Sir Edmund Hillary famously said, “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Scott Mann’s 2022 survival thriller, Fall , is built on these opposing human impulses.
In the film, two friends, Shiloh (Virginia Gardner) and Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) decide to climb an abandoned 2,000-foot TV tower. Shiloh climbs all sorts of scary heights to create content for her social media account while Becky agrees to the join her to come to terms with her husband’s death a year before in a trekking accident. After being stranded at the top of the tower for a few days, Becky makes it down alone.
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