Don’t breathe: Literally doesn’t let you breathe

Cast: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang

Rated: 8/10

Yes, you don’t breathe in this one. Almost all through. Only in the interval, perhaps. And, you return late night in fear, even of the radio taxi driver who is a good soul but scary because you’ve come out of such a tightly gripping murder mount.

Don’t Breathe is a fantastic house invasion action-thriller which keeps you on the edge all through — as I said, even in the interval and much after you’ve gone home.

Three young burglars come to know of a deserted house in which $300k are stashed away by a blind war veteran and they look for an invasion. Nothing unusual in that but what unfolds is such a night scream that you marvel at the director’s ability to throw up the fear factor to the maximum.

The dim lighting, the foiled escape sequences, the blind man himself, his secret prisoner and all the murders that happen through this night in a house on a deserted street are completely hair-raising. No it is not a horror story but the terror it evokes in you is what makes such dark action thrillers the one to not be missed.

Don’t Breathe is not about its actors. It is about the night-time drama, it is about fear, it is about being blood-curdled, it is about near perfection in this genre. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 4 September, 2016