Alvarez mostly eschews the easy jump scares and har-har-har dialogue that Hollywood has been passing off as horror filmmaking the past few years

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Nobody’s sent Fede Alvarez the memo about toning it down. This Uruguayan horror director presses on as if ‘torture porn’ were still a thing, not something half-

Is Fede Alvarez's latest as terrifying as his Evil Dead remake? Read the Empire review to find out.

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Burglars break into the wrong house in an efficient but uninvolving horror

Twisting the “blind warrior” trope into a simple but possibility-laden premise, Don’t Breathe makes for a very fun little thriller, though it also veers into being exceptionally stupid or eye-rollingly gross (although admittedly, it is sometimes more than one of these things simultaneously). Since mainstream horror is this way almost as a rule, I suppose

Most horror movies – commercial ones at least – survive or die on the basis of how scary they are.

Panic Room meets Wait Until Dark in this pitiless, uncommonly serviceable horror thriller. A pair of necessitous, romantically involved housebreakers (Jane Levy and Daniel Zovatto) partner with a college freshman (Dylan Minnette) whose dad’s position with a home-security provider helps to open a lot of doors. What could be easier on the trio (and what could undermine crowd sympathy faster) than targeting a blind war veteran (a granitic Stephen Lang) sitting on 300 grand in the only kempt home on an otherwise uninhabitable block of wartorn Detroit? The seamless, digitally-protracted long take that introduces the characters and audience to their new surroundings pays suitable homage to the film’s producer (and Evil Dead architect) Sam Raimi. You’ll know you’re hooked when even something as unreasonable as a chase involving a Rottweiler in an air shaft can’t derail writer-director Fede Alvarez’s (Evil Dead, 2013) relentless train of thought.

In this gory thriller, messing with a blind veteran is not a good idea.

Home-invasion thriller is more methodical than innovative

This is hands-down one of the best horror movies of the year.

SXSW Review: Fede Alvarez’s Thriller ‘Don't Breathe’ Starring Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto & Stephen Lang

A blind homeowner vs home invaders in a superbly made thriller that turns the genre on its head

The film succeeds on its visual elegance and the simple yet ingenious concept

Don’t Breathe’s sustainment of its corkscrew tension is so elegant and methodical as to feel dance-like.

Fede Alvarez presents his "Untitled Ghost House Thriller" at the fest where his 'Evil Dead' premiered.

The latest from Fede Alvarez (the "Evil Dead" remake) goes from taut and inventive to overblown

In “Don’t Breathe,” when three cocky millennial burglars break into a house to rob an elderly, blind Persian Gulf War vet, it really isn’t a fair fight....

Strap in tight for this breathless, caustic, inventive and visceral Detroit-set horror thriller

'Don't Breathe' or can't breathe? In this tables-turned home-invasion thriller, director Fede Alvarez turns the suspense so high that audiences have trouble catching their breath.

The blind man isn’t the victim you expect him to be.

Fede Alvarez serves up a genuinely chilling home invasion thriller from the very top drawer.

Not every horror movie set in a house needs to have ghosts to scare you.

The home invasion thriller gets a violent shift in perspective — emphasis on violent — in Fede Alvarez's new film Don't Breathe.

SXSW 2016 Review: Fede Alvarez's 'Don't Breathe' Turns the Home Invasion Thriller Into an Art Form

The latest thriller from the director of the ‘Evil Dead’ remake is visceral and intense, but suffers from similar flaws.

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

Fede Alvarez’s simple housebound horror film is sparse on dialogue but its editing and sound design lend to a slow roll of dread that makes it a triumph