Fall movie ending explained: Who survives being stranded on the 2,000-foot radio tower? By Randall Colburn

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Those with vertigo should approach Fall with caution.

Scott Mann’s 2022 survival thriller, in which two thrill-seekers find themselves stranded on a 2,000-foot radio tower, is an absolute nightmare for those scared of heights. Mann’s camera trembles like the tower’s tiny platform, and his use of drone photography is as effective at highlighting the sun-dappled Mojave desert as it is at depicting just how little room our heroes have to navigate.

With the film now streaming on Netflix (and a sequel reportedly on the way this year), let’s answer the question on everyone’s minds: Does anybody actually fall?

Why would anyone climb that tower?

For the thrills, obviously, but also for the clicks.

The tower is massive — roughly twice the height of the Eiffel Tower — and Shiloh Hunter (Virginia Gardner) is an influencer known for sharing daredevil climbing clips. The fictional B-67 TV Tower is described by Hunter as having once been the “tallest structure in the U.S.,” and Mann has confirmed that it’s based on the KXTV/KOVR tower in Walnut Grove, Calif., currently the country’s second-tallest structure.

She’s joined on the climb by Becky Connor (Grace Caroline Currey), a fellow adventurer who’s been struggling with depression since witnessing her husband, Dan (Mason Gooding), fall to his death while scaling a mountain the year prior.

And therein lies the other reason for their climb: On Hunter’s suggestion, Becky plans to spread Dan’s ashes from the top of the tower while confronting the myriad fears that have plagued her since his death.

How do they get trapped on B-67?

The B-67 is abandoned and in disrepair, and as Hunter and Becky climb it, we see rickety ladder rungs, stripped bolts, and rust galore. The pair’s ascent is dangerous but goes over smoothly, with them spreading the ashes and creating content without incident. But when Becky begins to climb down, several rusty bolts give out and the ladder collapses, crashing to the sand below.

Hunter manages to save Becky, but they’re now trapped on top of B-67. Worse, the bag with their water and drone has fallen onto an old satellite further down the structure. Calling for help isn’t an option, as neither of them have signal that far up in the air.

Does anyone fall in Fall?

Yes, Hunter falls to her death while attempting to retrieve their bag from the satellite.

Her fall comes after a number of agonizing, ultimately fruitless efforts to get help. First, Hunter tries sending a message to her 60,000 Instagram followers. There’s no signal on top of the tower, but the pair knows there’s connection further down. Their plan is for Hunter to cue up a message, cushion the phone in her shoe, and drop her phone to the ground below, where the message will presumably send.

When that doesn’t work, they shoot a flare gun to catch the attention of some men wandering the desert below. After seeing the flare, the ne’er-do-wells steal Hunter’s car instead of calling for help.

With time passing and no one coming to their rescue, Hunter chooses to climb their rope down to the satellite to grab the bag. Not only do they need the water inside it, but the drone could potentially be used to send a note. Hunter, needing to get closer to the bag, unclips her carabiner and leaps to the satellite, which she lands on safely.

After clipping the bag to the carabiner, she climbs the rope as Becky pulls her up, but she falls before reaching the top. Miraculously, she lands on the bag and is able to pull herself back up with Becky’s help. The two hydrate and charge the drone, but it’s destroyed after being hit by a speeding truck.

As delirium begins to take hold, Becky comes to realize that Hunter didn’t survive her fall, after all. When she slipped, she fell onto the satellite below, bled out, and died.

“You didn’t really think your scrawny ass could pull me up, did you?” Becky’s vision of Hunter says. “I guess you were just too afraid that you were up here all alone.”

What happens at the end of Fall?

Becky is dehydrated and delirious, but manages to nourish herself after strangling and eating a vulture that attacked her on the platform.

She climbs the rope down to the satellite and, like they did with Hunter’s phone previously, writes and sends an S.O.S. message to her dad that will presumably send if the phone can land on the ground safely. To ensure it does, she packs the phone inside her shoe, slips it inside one of Hunter’s corpse’s open wounds, and pushes it off the tower.

Her dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) arrives on the scene to find multiple cop cars. After initially thinking Hunter’s body is Becky, he despairs. Then he sees Becky in an ambulance. The two hug and she tells him she’ll be okay.

“Life is fleeting,” Becky intones in a voiceover, echoing Hunter’s words from earlier in the film. “Life is short, too short. So you gotta use every moment. You have to do something that makes you feel alive.”

Will there be a Fall sequel?

Yes, Capstone Pictures greenlit two sequels to Fall in 2025. Entertainment Weekly can confirm that the first sequel, directed by Michael and Peter Spierig (Jigsaw), has finished filming and is slated for a 2026 release. Mann, who directed Fall, will helm the third film.

The first sequel follows Jax (Harriet Slater), Hunter’s sister, as she and a friend (played by Queen Charlotte‘s Arsema Thomas) attempt a dangerous “plank walk” on Mount Kwan in Thailand. As you might expect, things don’t go as planned, and a rockslide finds the pair stranded 3,000 feet in the air.

Where can I watch Fall?

Fall is currently available to stream on Netflix.

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