2016 · horror · thriller · crime
Don't Breathe
Directed by Fede Álvarez1h 29m2016
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Our read: Don't Breathe (2016) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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“You want home-invasion tension that keeps flipping the power balance.”
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