Don't Breathe

The suspense is built as carefully as it is in a good John Carpenter movie; Alvarez uses the camera like a stealth weapon, exploring dark corners and hidden areas of the house with devilish glee.

Panic Room meets Wait Until Dark in this pitiless, uncommonly serviceable horror thriller.

You start out fearing "Don't Breathe," but by the end you're laughing at it - and the humor is not intentional.

It's visually resourceful and honest in how it sets up and delivers on its shocks. There isn't a single false scare.

A home invasion story that is as artfully terrifying as Home Alone was entertainingly hilarious.

"Don't Breathe" is a breathless, visceral, nerve-racking thrill ride that doesn't stop coming at you until its final gasps.

A movie that made me hold my breath more than once, and managed to take suspense to heights most modern horror movies don't even bother with anymore.

Don't breathe is one of the most intelligent films of the year, one that from the angle of horror, invites the audience to perform reflexive exercises around morality and justification of the lowest human action. [Full review in Spanish]

An excellent addition to the genre of horror thanks to the presentation of its narrative, visual and sound proposal. [Full review in Spanish]

Easily one of the most assured and immersive horror films in recent memory.

Those underdeveloped characters become more of a problem when the plot starts to run into the realm of the indestructible bad guy and a shocking twist I found lazy and in poor taste (even in this realm).

Even the recurring passages of pin-drop silence generate edge-of-the-seat dread.