Don't Breathe (Cert 15, 89 mins, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Horror/Thriller/Romance, also available to buy DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99/Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray £29.99 or on-demand from various streaming services)
Starring: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang, Emma Bercovici, Katia Bokor.
Rocky (Jane Levy) intends to move to California with her little sister Diddy (Emma Bercovici) to escape their spiteful mother (Katia Bokor). To finance the relocation, Rocky robs valuables from homes with her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto) and pal Alex (Dylan Minnette), whose father runs a security firm that has spare keys to the targeted properties. The trio spy on a blind Army veteran called Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang), who lives in the neighbourhood and apparently has 300,000 US dollars in a safe in his ramshackle home. The thieves gain access and leave a homemade chloroform bomb in Norman's bedroom to temporarily incapacitate the owner. Rocky, Money and Alex learn to their cost that Norman isn't helpless. He locks the exits, cuts the electricity and prepares to hunt his terrified prey in the dark using his heightened sense of hearing and smell. Don't Breathe is a masterful exercise in nerve-jangling simplicity, which begins as a predictable home invasion thriller but gradually morphs into something far more tense and diabolical. The script, co-written by director Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues, sends beads of cold sweat down the spine as the filmmakers' Machiavellian intentions are revealed in a series of audacious flourishes that will leave viewers gasping in disbelief. Political correctness and preconceptions are gleefully upended as the narrative veers down genuinely unexpected tangents, with no guarantee that anyone on screen will have a pulse when the end credits roll. Lang is a chilling antagonist while Levy, Minette and Zovatto essay wonderfully clueless lambs to the slaughter.
Rating: ****
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