Don’t Breathe Scares Off The Competition

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Jacob Gomez, Staff writer

The movie, “Don’t Breathe” a new horror movie, is about a group of friends in Detroit who get their wealth from stealing from the wealthy. Everything is fine and well until a blind Vietnam veteran gets word that his house would be attacked by thieves and he does not plan on keeping his prisoners alive.

To Metacritic (7.0), Rotten Tomatoes (88%) to even IMDB (7.6); this film is breaking constant box office records. From the creators who made Evil Dead (Reboot) and its show, this is a really great movie. The film itself had an interesting concept of a story, even as a horror film itself. It is technically the first movie to feature the horror of not seeing the killer. The acting is actually pretty decent, you obviously can tell when they’re afraid, but when the characters stop breathing in a scene, you stop breathing. It’s because in horror movies, there’s killers, monsters, the undead and things like that to bring the fear up these days, and sometimes it works and most times it doesn’t, but it always comes to that feelings that something is facing you in the dark. Stephen Lang, the main slasher/killer in the movie, is a blind man who suffers from P.T.S.D. That shouldn’t be terrifying, if anything it makes you root for him, but when he gets serious, he’s absolutely terrifying. Jane Levy is also really good in the movie, she’s really good at grasping our attention during all of her scenes. However, the premise of the movie is what made it so good. It’s a prime example of “It doesn’t have to be written well, it just needs to be executed well”, a constant problem with the horror genre these days.

Don’t Breathe’s widest release was to 3,051 theaters. As for the film’s opening weekend, the film has grossed $2,001,241 in foreign countries and grossed $33,740,401 worldwide over the weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. It is currently in 2,367th place in the Box office, behind 2009s “9” and in front 2005s “The wedding date.”

They could probably overcome it’s competitors by changing it’s intended audience, and that intended audience would be teenagers, being the second most financial group in entertainment yet. I say this because, say what you will about “Lights out”, but at least it was PG-13 and Grossed $21,688,103 in its opening weekend worldwide, and both films came out the same year.  This film has gotten constant positive and perfect scores and I really can’t say anything different. I do recommend watching it if you’re into horror, gore, or good acting.