Amazon Prime has added a gripping horror thriller to its lineup and is teaching even giddy suspense fans to be scared: Fall is the best thrill movie in a long time.
The survival thriller Fall – Fear Reaches New Heights seems superficially like a B-movie horror film, but develops on Amazon Prime * surprisingly to the nerve-racking suspense cinema. For when two girlfriends climb a 600-meter radio tower in the middle of nowhere, this vertical trip skillfully plays with the horror of height and still has surprises in store.
Horror thriller Fall awakens your fear of heights on Amazon Prime – even if you’re otherwise free from vertigo
Like a needle, the rusty-red radio tower pokes out of the perfectly flat American landscape into the blue sky. Adrenaline junkie Hunter (Virginia Gardner) wants to (illegally) climb the steel structure as a dare to her social media followers. She even had to persuade her friend Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) to come along, as she lost a loved one on their last climb together.
Scott Mann’s case starts off a bit bumpy on Amazon into familiar clichés, but once the two young women take to the heights, that’s forgotten.
Fall – Fear Reaches New Heights
I’m not really afraid of heights. I thought. But Fall still manages to make me break out in a cold sweat with each successive ladder rung. Because the thriller understands on Amazon Prime in an incomparable way, never let you forget the enormous distance to the ground. The sheer endless depth of the tower becomes the anchor of our fear in the production. With the film title in mind, which erects the catastrophe of a fatal fall as a constant threat, the fingernails are chewed down there in no time.
Vertical and emotional horror: Case 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 that makes rescue attempts increasingly daring. The creeping doom convincingly alternates with adrenaline surges of pure panic. Nevertheless, Fall manages to surprise again and again. And that, although at the beginning one still thought that with a tower ascent (direction: up or down) the events were very limited and predictable.
