Taglines: This house looked like an easy target. Until they found what was inside.
What seemed like a good idea for some easy cash, will end up in a pure nightmare as the Detroit teenage delinquents, Money, Rocky, and Alex come up with a seemingly fail-proof strategy to rob a blind grizzled hermit, planning a way out to sunny California. Hopefully, this last job will do the trick; however, there is more to this war-seasoned ex-Marine than meets the eye–and pretty soon–his secluded home will become his battlefield. Can the young intruders survive a lethal cat-and-mouse game?
Don’t Breathe is a 2016 American horror film directed by Fede Álvarez and written by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. The film stars Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, and Stephen Lang, and focuses on three friends who get trapped inside a blind man’s house while breaking into it.
The film was produced by Ghost House Pictures and Good Universe. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 12, 2016, and was theatrically released on August 26, 2016, by Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films. It received largely positive critical reviews and grossed over $157 million.
About the Story
Rocky, Alex, and Money are three Detroit delinquents who make a living by breaking into homes secured by Alex’s father’s security company and selling the items they take. However, the person buying the stolen goods for Money doesn’t give them a fair price, not enough to fund Rocky’s dream of moving to California with her little sister, Diddy, to escape their abusive mother and her alcoholic boyfriend.
Money receives a tip that a medically retired US Army Special Forces veteran living in an abandoned Detroit neighborhood has $300,000 in cash in his house, given as a settlement after a wealthy young woman, Cindy Roberts, killed his daughter in a car accident. The three stake out the house and discover that the man is in fact blind, as he was blinded from a blast during the Gulf War.
That night, the three approach the house and drug the Blind Man’s dog. Finding all entrances locked, Rocky enters the house through a small window and lets the other two in. The group searches the house for the money but are unable to find it. Money puts a sleeping gas in the Blind Man’s bedroom, then, assuming the money is behind a locked door downstairs, shoots the lock.
The noise wakes up the Blind Man, who demands to know who else is with Money. Money insists he is alone, and the Blind Man kills him with his own gun. Terrified, Rocky hides in a closet, where she witnesses the Blind Man open a safe to check on his money. After he leaves, she opens the safe and takes the money, which appears to be at least $1 million. The Blind Man however finds Rocky’s shoes and realizes that Money was not the only intruder.
Rocky and Alex evade the Blind Man and hurry to the basement. There, they are shocked to find a restrained, gagged woman in a homemade padded cell. Desperate, she shows them a newspaper article about the car accident; they realize that she is Cindy, the rich young woman, held captive by the Blind Man. They free her and run for the storm cellar door, only to be taken off guard by the Blind Man, who mistakenly shoots and kills Cindy. He breaks down crying when he discovers she is dead, sobbing “my baby.” Rocky and Alex flee into the cellar while the Blind Man shuts off the lights, plunging them into darkness. After a blind struggle, Alex knocks out the Blind Man, and they flee upstairs.
Don’t Breathe
Directed by: Fede Alvarez
Starring: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Stephen Lang, Daniel Zovatto, Jane May Graves, Katia Bokor, Sergej Onopko, Jon Donahue
Screenplay by: Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues
Production Design by: Naaman Marshall
Cinematography by: Pedro Luque
Film Editing by: Gardner Gould
Costume Design by: Carlos Rosario
Set Decoration by: Zsuzsa Mihalek
Music by: Roque Baños
MPAA Rating: R for terror, violence, disturbing content, and language including sexual references.
Studio: Sony ScreenGems
Release Date: August 26, 2016
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