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Name: Don't Breathe
Director: Fede Álvarez
Genre: crime, horror, thriller
Released: 2016
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 7.1

Don't Breathe has an iRankMovies score of 75.4/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Don't Breathe (2016)

This house looked like an easy target, until they found what was inside.

Release:2016

Runtime:1h 29m

Country:United States

Director:Fede Álvarez

Language:English

Genre

CrimeHorrorThriller

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Keywords

KidnappingThiefBlindHeld CaptiveBreak InBlind ManTrapped In A House

iRank75

Don't Breathe rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.1/10· 328K votes

Rotten Tomatoes88%

Metacritic71%

TMDb7/10· 8K votes

With 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 71/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Don't Breathe

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Cast of Don't Breathe

Stephen Lang
as The Blind Man
Jane Levy
as Rocky
Dylan Minnette
as Alex
Daniel Zovatto
as Money
Emma Bercovici
as Diddy
Franciska Törőcsik
as Cindy
Christian Zagia
as Raul
Katia Bokor
as Ginger
Sergej Onopko
as Trevor
O
Olivia Gillies
as Blind Man's Daughter (Young Emma)
D
Dayna Clark
as TV Anchor

Don't Breathe facts

Budget: $9.9M
Box office: $158.9M
Collection: Don't Breathe Collection

Our take on Don't Breathe

Fede Álvarez turns a simple home-invasion premise into a taut chamber piece: three young thieves target the house of a blind man, expecting an easy score, only to find that their prey knows the darkness better than they do. Working the 2016 crime-horror-thriller space, Álvarez leans on silence, tight geography and the sightless advantage to wring dread from every creaking floorboard. It suits viewers who like their horror lean and mechanical rather than supernatural, and who appreciate a thriller that keeps rearranging your sympathies. If you want relentless tension in a confined space and can stomach some nastiness, this delivers a genuinely suffocating ninety minutes.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Blind protagonist creates innovative tactical advantage challenging conventional thriller setup
•Kidnapping and held captive elements generate sustained suspenseful tension throughout
•Crime thriller premise explores moral ambiguity between burglars and blind antagonist

What the audience disliked

•Graphic violence and disturbing imagery make film emotionally overwhelming for audiences
•Thief perspective framing potentially sympathizes with criminal characters inappropriately

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