20 Horror Movies You Should Watch Totally BLIND

20. Don't Breathe

From its logline alone, Don't Breathe may sound like a pretty typical horror-thriller, in which a trio of young thieves break into a blind man's house (Stephen Lang) only to find him putting up far more of a fight than they expected.

But that barely scratches the surface of what filmmaker Fede Álvarez has primed for audiences, because Don't Breathe plays quite ingeniously with morality and with conventional notions of screen protagonists, as it unfurls an increasingly grim and eventually nauseating narrative web.

Jane Levy and Dylan Minnette are terrific as the embattled thieves while Lang steals every moment he's on screen as their grizzled target, and Álvarez does a marvellous job of mining the confined scenario for every claustrophobic drop it's worth.

It's just a shame that the second film - which Álvarez didn't direct - fell so thoroughly flat on its face in attempting to sequelise a story that didn't have obvious franchise potential from the jump.