Fall spoilers follow.
Fall became a hit when it was released on Netflix UK, with many viewers left reeling over the movie's tragic ending.
What really happened to Hunter in the end? And how could the story continue in a potential sequel?
According to producers, there have already been discussions about Fall 2. The sequel, they teased, will "look to unsettle audiences with another terrifying tale set at a great height".
It sounds like it might be unconnected to Fall character-wise — which is a smart call, as we imagine Becky (Grace Fulton) is never going up a tall structure again.
The first movie sees Becky climb an abandoned radio tower in the desert with her best friend Hunter (Virgina Gardner), only for the pair to end up stranded 2,000 feet in the air with no help on the way. It all leads to an intense finale that delivers a surprise reveal that changes everything you thought you were watching.
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But if you were suffering from altitude sickness from all the movie's heights, we're here to help explain Fall's devastating ending. Now, it's among the best movies on Netflix, so let's delve into it.
Needless to say, major spoilers are ahead.
Fall ending explained
Rescue appears to be in sight for Becky and Hunter when they get their hands on the drone that was on the communications dish below them. To make up for the fact she had a four-month affair with Becky's husband, Hunter risks her life to climb down and collect the drone for them.
They send the drone on its way to the nearby diner with a written message for help, but in a cruel twist of fate, the drone is hit and destroyed by a truck before it reaches the diner. Before they give up entirely, Becky decides to use her mobile to send a message to her father.
Hunter had tried before with her phone by packing it inside her shoe and sending it off the tower. However, the padding wasn't enough to stop the phone from being destroyed when it hit the ground. Becky just thinks they can use more padding and the shoe approach will work this time.
She asks Hunter for her remaining shoe, but Hunter can't. "It's not up here, is it? It's down there," she replies, referring to the communications dish where she picked up the drone — and where Hunter's body now lies.
That's right folks: Hunter is dead.
How does Hunter die in Fall?
If Hunter's leap to the suspended backpack and subsequent climb seemed impossible at the time, that's because it was. Hunter fell in her attempt to get back up to Becky, and she's been a figment of Becky's imagination ever since.
It explains why Hunter suddenly knew about wrestling (despite the fact she's never watched it), and why she appeared more supportive of Becky after that incident. It wasn't because they had grown closer, it was just because Becky was imagining the support she needed.
After this devastating revelation, Becky is woken up the next day by a vulture eating her wounded leg. She kills it and eats it, naturally, before climbing down to the dish where Hunter's body lies.
Becky sends a message to her father on her phone, then she pops the phone into Hunter's remaining shoe which she then shoves inside of Hunter through a gaping wound. With the phone now suitably padded, she pushes Hunter's body off the tower and the message successfully gets through to her father.
Her father comes to the tower with the emergency services and Becky is saved. Although we imagine she's probably going to have nightmares for months — and will never actually climb again. Or possibly use a phone. Or even a shoe.
As mentioned above, Fall 2 is on the table, so don't say goodbye to Becky just yet.
Fall is available to watch now on Netflix UK.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
