Lately, a cycle of home invasion movies have vulnerable protagonists – the deaf heroine of Hush, the agoraphobic of Shut In (aka Intruders) – turning the tables on murderous, larcenous thugs. Don’t Breathe takes a slightly different tack on this premise, focusing on three varied crooks – an unstable bad boy (Daniel Zovatto), a girl who needs cash to escape a horrible home life (Jane Levy) and a basically decent guy with a crush (Dylan Minnette) – who make the mistake of picking on a grizzled, wiry-tough blind ex-soldier (Stephen Lang). Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs and the French Livide have played this reverse-the-threat game – though another contemporary run of movies have regular criminals clashing with outright maniacs (No One Lives, The Neighbour, The Collector).
Don’t Breathe Review
Three robbers (Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto) target a house in a derelict area of Detroit, believing a blind combat veteran (Stephen Lang) has a large cash sum to hand. Once inside, they discover the home-owner has other secrets and is dangerously resourceful.
Release Date:
09 Sep 2016
Original Title:
Don’t Breathe