For me, sound is a vital reason why I enjoy horror movies. From John Carpenter's Halloween to present day movies such as It Follows and The Guest, sound can make or break a movie. Don't Breathe has a nice sound, but it's the lack of sound at times, that brings the house down.

Kids, don't break into houses. Nothing ever good comes from it. I thought the trailer gave too much of the plot away. I was dead wrong. It would be criminal for me to discuss more of the plot. All I'll say is there's a scene as memorable as American History X's curb stomp.

If you've seen The Hard Way, you know Stephen Lang is one of the…

Someone please hold me

Don't Breathe does exactly what it sets out to do and that's to fucking terrify the audience, make you shit your pants, make you cry, and or make you crawl up into the fetal position. Chances are very high that you will experience at least one of those things if not more.

I cannot put into words how intense and brutal this movie is. The camerawork is brilliant. The way the this movie is filmed adds so much to the movie. It's so seamless, but so effective. The use of sound and silence is perfect. The score itself is great. The performances are all really great, especially Stephen Lang. I'm blown away. I really can't fault…

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA

Today I was in Savemart in Lancaster which is where I buy herbal supplements to self-treat brain injury when I am unable to buy them online or at Giant or closer and there was some dude wearing a Black Flag shirt and I was all like 'Black Flag R Awesome' and dude was like 'Yeah, sure, uhhhhh' and grabbed his organic corn chips or whatever and hurried past me which honestly is rational if you think about some obviously brain-damaged middle-aged hippie scuzz-drain wearing a Charlie Brown Halloween Shirt in August soliticing you for hardcore solidarity at Savemart. That dude could see that something was off and he was right. Don't Breathe is that situation when your…

With a title and a premise like that it might have been a good idea to actually explore it to its fullest instead of slavishly following all the genre tropes imaginable without any spark of creativity whatsoever.

There actually is a huge amount of potential here, potential that is reached in perhaps one or two scenes. The scene where the (ludicrously inept) burglars get chased in the dark is exemplary of how infuriatingly beige this film is. That scene is fantastic. It actually manages to capture what the blurb and title evoke, a sense of dread in the dark.

But no, that scene is just a snippet in a series of uninspired sequences without any real tension and with the…