PG-13 | 1h 47m | Survival Thriller, Adventure, Horror | 2022 “Fall” has so much in common with 2005’s monster movie “The Descent” that it should be titled “The Ascent.” The original was about six rock-climber girl buddies who go spelunking and run into some blind, cave-dwelling, orc-looking, ceiling-crawling, pasty-white humanoids who eat people.
“Fall” is about two rock-climber girl buddies who ascend a rusty, rickety relic—the 2,000-foot-tall, defunct B67 radio tower out in the desert. For reference, that’s twice the height of the Eiffel Tower, and the World Trade Center’s North Tower was 1,368 feet (1,730 feet including the antenna). It’s got screws rattling around; it creaks and groans in the wind—what could possibly go wrong?…