Before Fall 2 Takes You Higher, Go Back to Where It Started

If watching two people cling to a tiny platform 2,000 feet above the ground made your palms sweat in 2022, apparently somebody looked at Fall and thought: higher. Fall 2: Deadpoint runs it back this week with another group of climbers, another spectacularly terrible decision involving heights and a new survival thriller unfolding thousands of feet above Thailand. 

But before going up another thousand feet, there's a very good reason to revisit where all this vertigo started. The original Fall movie follows best friends Becky and Hunter as they climb an abandoned 2,000-foot radio tower in the desert, only for the deteriorating ladder to collapse and leave them stranded on a platform roughly the size of absolutely not. Water is limited. Cell service is nonexistent. The ground is very, very far away. And director Scott Mann spends the next 107 minutes making your couch feel like the safest place on Earth.

More importantly, there's a connection between Fall and Fall 2: Deadpoint that makes the first movie more than franchise homework. Fall 2 carries the original movie's story forward through Hunter's family, following her sister Jax as grief pulls her toward another dangerous climb. That makes revisiting Becky and Hunter's original ordeal particularly worthwhile before the sequel raises the altitude and the stakes. If Fall leaves you craving another survival thriller, the Thrillers collection has plenty more bad situations to observe safely from sea level.