Don't breathe

GuaAnakMelaka · Post time 16-10-2016 07:06 PM

Don't Breathe is a 2016 American horror film directed by Fede Alvarez and written by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. The film stars Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto and Stephen Lang, and focuses on three friends who get trapped inside a blind man's house while breaking into it.

The film was produced by Ghost House Pictures and Good Universe. The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 12, 2016, and was theatrically released on August 26, 2016, by Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films. It received positive reviews and grossed over $140 million against a $9.9 million budget.

Plot

Rocky, Alex, and Money are three Detroit delinquents who make a living by breaking into homes secured by Alex's father's security company and selling the items they take. However, the person buying the stolen goods from Money doesn't give them a fair price, and not nearly enough to fund Rocky's dream of moving to California with her little sister Diddy to escape their neglectful mother and her alcoholic boyfriend. Money receives a tip that an Army veteran living in an abandoned Detroit neighborhood has $300,000 in cash in his house, given as a settlement after a wealthy young woman, Cindy Roberts, killed his daughter in a car accident. The three stake out the house and discover that the man is in fact blind. After some deliberation, they decide to break into the house at night.

That night, the three approach the house and drug the Blind Man's dog. Finding all the entrances locked, Rocky enters the house through a small window and lets the other two in. The group searches the house for the money but is unable to find it; assuming it is behind a locked door, Money shoots the lock. The noise wakes up the Blind Man, who attacks Money and kills him with his own gun. Rocky hides in a closet, where she witnesses the Blind Man open a safe to check on his money. After he leaves, Alex finds Rocky in the closet, and the two open the safe and take the money. Meanwhile, the Blind Man finds Money's and Rocky's shoes downstairs, and deduces that Money was not the only intruder.

Rocky and Alex evade the Blind Man and find a door leading to the basement. Inside, they are surprised by a restrained, gagged woman in a homemade padded cell. She shows them a newspaper article mentioning Cindy and the car accident; Rocky and Alex realize that she is Cindy, held captive by the Blind Man. They free her and run for the storm cellar door, only to be surprised by the Blind Man, who fires at them, mistakenly killing Cindy. Rocky and Alex escape into the cellar while the Blind Man, enraged at Cindy's death, shuts off the lights. After a struggle, Alex knocks out the Blind Man, and Rocky follows him back up to the house.

Finding the exits blocked, Rocky attempts to escape the house through the ventilation system, while Alex is attacked by the Blind Man's dog and falls out of a window onto a skylight. The Blind Man captures Alex and drags him into his utility room, where he appears to stab him with a pair of pruning shears. Meanwhile, the dog pursues Rocky through the vents, and she is captured by the Blind Man. She wakes up restrained in the basement, where the Blind Man reveals that Cindy was carrying his child in order to replace the one she killed. He then attempts to artificially inseminate Rocky with a turkey baster, but Alex, who survived, knocks him out and handcuffs him.

Rocky and Alex are unable to call the police, as their blood is all over the house, so they attempt to leave through the front door. The Blind Man escapes his restraints and fatally shoots Alex, but Rocky escapes, pursued by the dog. She manages to trap the dog in her car trunk, but is captured again by the Blind Man and dragged back to his house. Inside, Rocky disorients the Blind Man by setting off his house's loud alarm system, then beats him with a crowbar and knocks him into the basement. He shoots himself during the fall and is knocked unconscious. Rocky flees before the police arrive.

With the money, Rocky prepares to leave Detroit with Diddy on a train to Los Angeles. Before boarding the train, she sees a news report stating that the Blind Man killed two intruders (Alex and Money) in his house and is in stable condition at the hospital, but did not report Rocky or the stolen money.

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