Don't Breathe

Don't Breathe (2016) - Directed by Fede Alvarez.  Written by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues.  Starring Jane Levy and Stephen Lang

★★★★

I can't decide if this home invasion thriller turned on it's ear has one twist too many or just enough, but either way it's almost sickeningly effective with it's turns of events.  To say anything more about the plot than Jane Levy plays a young woman in Detroit who goes to invade the home of a blind veteran (an excellent Stephen Lang) and then things spiral out of control would be to reveal too much.  Suffice to say that if Fede Alvarez and Jane Levy, who previously collaborated on the far-better-than-we-deserved remake of Evil Dead in 2013, want to keep on making movies together than I'm completely on board for that.

Incidentally, this is the third Detroit-based horror film I can think of in recent years after Only Lovers Left Alive and It Follows. That's an interesting mini-trend.