10 Best Horror Movies Of The Decade So Far

Let’s carry on playing pretty fast and loose with the horror genre tag while we still can in shape of Don’t Breathe. In recent times, horror as a genre is being steadily blended into all manner of different types of movie to create a vaguely familiar, yet entirely different shade of horror hue. There’s psychological horror, romantic horror, gore horror and many others that refuse to be classed as a straight up scare fest. Don’t Breathe fits more into the thriller-horror genre and is from the guys behind the recent Evil Dead remake.

Don’t Breathe follows the lives of three Detroit delinquents who rob dilapidated houses as a means of getting by before picking the absolute worst house possible to burgle. The house in question belongs to a blind, army veteran who’s sort of like a cross between a grizzled Matt Murdock and Ron Perlman.

Pretty quickly the whole endeavour descends into a claustrophobic game of blind cat and mouse taking place in a maze in the pitch black. You become aware of the silence very quickly, and you become aware of every floorboard creak and muffled footstep even quicker.

Don’t Breathe pushes and pulls you around like a rabid dog on a lead. Do you root for the protagonists as you normally would do but happen to be trying to rob a blind man? Or the sightless man hunting them with a seriously shady past and a trigger happy mentality?

Don't Breathe is not black and white; although it is black a majority of the time.