Film Review – Don’t Breathe 2

2016’s “Don’t Breathe” was a nifty little chiller. Director Fede Alvarez found ways to rework the home invasion genre, playing with sensory-based suspense and blasts of horror to provide audiences with a few jolts to go with their chewed nails. It didn’t need a sequel, but “Don’t Breathe” unexpectedly became a major hit, and the producers aren’t going to leave money on the table. Weirdly, they’ve taken their sweet time to create a continuation, with “Don’t Breathe 2” in the unfortunate position to live up to expectations set by the original movie, with Alverez handing helming duties to his co-screenwriter on the first film, Rodo Sayagues. It’s certainly not a quickie effort, but “Don’t Breathe 2” is as terrible as one, with the writers exhausting all their decent ideas five years ago, now offering a grotesquely violent, poorly acted, and abysmally edited feature. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com