History Film / DontBreathe

->''"It's kind of messed up to rob a blind guy, isn't it?"''

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Our MainCharacters are three burglars trying to steal from a blind man. The antagonist is [[spoiler:a blind, insane man who has kidnapped a woman and forcibly inseminated her...the woman who killed his daughter in a car accident]].

Around three months after release, Alvarez announced that a sequel, ''[[Film/DontBreathe2 Don't Breathe 2]]'', was in the works. Creator/SamRaimi (who produced the original film) went on record to call it "only the greatest idea for a sequel I've ever heard". Its script was completed in late 2018 and the film was released on August 13, 2021.

* HollywoodSilencer: Subverted; Money gets fed up with trying to bust open the lock to the basement door with a crowbar, so he attempts to [[ShootTheLock shoot the lock]] with his gun and places a water bottle over the muzzle as a crude suppressor. He manages to shoot the lock off and reduce the gun's blast a small pop, but it still attracts the Blind Man to the thieves' location.

Around three months after release, Alvarez announced that a sequel was in the works, with Creator/SamRaimi (who produced the original film) going on record calling it "only the greatest idea for a sequel I've ever heard." Its script was completed in late 2018. [[Film/DontBreathe2 Don't Breathe 2]] was released August 13, 2021.

!!This film provides examples of:

Rocky (Levy), a teenage delinquent living with neglectful parents, promises her younger sister to move away with her. Looking for the right amount of cash to run away with in order to do so, her boyfriend Money (Zovatto) convinces her to break into the home of a blind man who supposedly has a safe in the basement with a large fortune. After they enter in the middle of the night, with the help of Rocky's friend Alex (Minnette), they discover the blind man is not as helpless as he seems.

Around three months after release, Alvarez announced that a sequel was in the works, with Creator/SamRaimi (who produced the original film) going on record calling it "only the greatest idea for a sequel I've ever heard." Its script was completed in late 2018. [[Film/DontBreathe2 ''Don't Breathe 2'']] was released August 13, 2021.

Around three months after release, Alvarez announced that a sequel was in the works, with Creator/SamRaimi (who produced the original film) going on record calling it "only the greatest idea for a sequel I've ever heard." Its script was completed in late 2018. Film/DontBreathe2 was released August 13, 2021.

Around three months after release, Alvarez announced that a sequel was in the works, with Creator/SamRaimi (who produced the original film) going on record calling it "only the greatest idea for a sequel I've ever heard." Its script was completed in late 2018, and the film is currently slated for an August 2021 release.

** The case can also be made for a nod to ''Film/FightClub''; [[spoiler:the Blind Man shooting Money through the bottom of his head is shot almost identically to the Narrator shooting himself in the cheek, with the use of slow--motion, the flash of the gunfire, and the blast rippling through the face all prominent in both shots.]]

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The Blind Man claims that after [[spoiler:his captive, and later Rocky, give him a child]], he'll let them go free. How he expects them to just let him get away with such heinous crimes is unclear. Although he may be lying, and even if he's not, it's pretty well established he's [[AxCrazy left the realm of rational thought]].

''Don't Breathe'' is a 2016 American horror thriller film directed by Fede Alvarez and written by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. The film stars Creator/JaneLevy, Creator/DylanMinnette, Creator/DanielZovatto, and Creator/StephenLang.

* ShoutOut: Contains several to another popular home invasion thriller, ''Film/PanicRoom'':
** Money resembles Creator/JaredLeto's character Junior in more ways than one -- their looks (white guys with cornrows in similar dress), their HotBlooded attitudes, and the fact that [[spoiler:both are the first of their trios to get killed]].
** The film contains an [[TheOner omniscient long take]] similar to the one in ''Panic Room''.
** The film's [[CreativeClosingCredits closing credits]] -- displaying names and text attached to the architecture of the house -- mirror the famous opening credits of ''Panic Room''.

Rocky (Levy), a teenage delinquent living with neglectful parents, promises her younger sister to move away with her. Looking for the right amount of cash to run away with in order to do so, her boyfriend Money (Zovatto) convinces her to break into the home of a blind man who supposedly has a safe in the basement. After they proceed with their operation in the middle of the night, with the help of Rocky's friend Alex (Minnette), they discover the blind man is not as helpless as he seems.

Rocky, a teenage delinquent living with neglectful parents, promises her younger sister to move away with her. Looking for the right amount of cash to run away with in order to do so, her boyfriend, Money, convinces her to break into the home of a blind man who supposedly has a safe in the basement. Breaking in the middle of the night with her friend Alex, they discover the blind man is not as helpless as he seems.

''Don't Breathe'' is a 2016 American horror thriller film directed by Fede Alvarez and written by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues. The film stars Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, and Creator/StephenLang.

Around three months after release, Alvarez announced that a sequel was in the works, with Creator/SamRaimi (who produced the original film) going on record calling it "only the greatest idea for a sequel I've ever heard." Its script was completed in late 2018, and in early 2020 its official name was announced -- ''Don't Breathe Again''. The film is currently slated for a fall 2021 release.

** Even though Money is just another amoral low-life small-time crook, [[spoiler:his last acts]] involve being very hesitant to actually shoot an elderly man and when overpowered, he lies to the Blind Man and claims to be the only burglar there to give [[spoiler:Rocky a chance to escape [[SacrificialLamb before he]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished is killed]].]]

!!This Film Provides Examples Of:

* {{Anti Hero}}es: Our MainCharacters are a couple of thieves, but they're sympathetic due to the greater crimes of the antagonist.

* BaitAndSwitch: The Blind Man holds a pair of hedge clippers above the prone Alex and slams it down. We see an extreme close-up of the clippers stab through a dark jacket, then we cut away. Later we find out that [[spoiler:the Blind Man had stabbed Money's corpse by mistake. Alex is still alive]].

* BookEnds: Around the start of the film, Rocky explains the significance of ladybugs to Alex -- her [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] would lock her in a car trunk for hours on end, and one time a ladybug flew in through a hole and landed on her finger, keeping her company and making her feel safe. [[spoiler:Towards the end, another ladybug flies on her finger, even spreading its wings and flying towards the general direction of Alex's remote, which gives her the idea to use it against the Blind Man]].

* DoggedNiceGuy: Alex is "in the friend zone" with Rocky, though he clearly has designs on her. Money warns him away in the beginning of the film.

*** By breaking vases and pissing on the floor, it is evident that Money is a rude and careless {{Jerkass}}.

* HollywoodAtheist: Seemingly out of nowhere, near the end, [[spoiler: the Blind Man]] justifies his monstrous actions by claiming "There’s nothing a man cannot achieve when he accepts there is no god."

** [[spoiler:Alex]] gets thrown out a window and lands on a skylight, later falls through that skylight, and is given a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by the Blind Man, and still gets back up. [[spoiler:Only when he gets shot again, just as he's leaving the house, does he [[RasputinianDeath finally die]].]]

* NothingIsScarier: The premise of the film is that the MainCharacters have to be quiet in order to escape the Blind Man's house.

* PrayerIsALastResort: Rocky indulges in prayer while shes's tied up and helpless. The Blind Man cruelly scorns her for doing so.

* SteelEarDrums: Averted. Several characters experience realistic ear-ringing when a gun is fired close to his or her head [[spoiler:(and when The Blind Man grazes Alex's ear with a lucky shot)]]. The Blind Man is just as susceptible to this--perhaps even more so than the intruders--and it could explain why he fails to sense Alex and/or Rocky when they are nearby at certain points in the film.

* TemptingFate: Rocky at one point taunts the Blind Man with a "You're useless out here!" [[spoiler:The literal second she finishes that sentence, his dog leaps in her direction.]]

* ActorAllusion: This is not the [[Film/TheHardWay first time]] Creator/StephenLang played a SerialKiller villain. However, in his last outing, he was a LargeHam unlike his character for this film.

* MinimalistCasting: Only four characters have any significant amount of dialogue, and one of them is killed in the first act.

* KarmaHoudini:
** [[spoiler:The Blind Man survives and faces no consequences for his kidnapping, though he did lose the money Rocky stole.]]
** [[spoiler:Rocky survives the encounter ''and'' gets away with all the ill-gotten money she's stolen throughout her career, allowing her to achieve her goal of starting a new life with her sister in California.]]