Review: Alvarez's 'Don't Breathe' is Effective & Engrossing Exploitation

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Don’t Breathe, the second feature film from Uruguayan writer-director Fede Alvarez (of 2013’s Evil Dead reboot) produced by legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi, is the depraved offspring of Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring and Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs. It’s about a group of teens who try to rob a blind man’s house, only to discover he’s not as passive as they expected. Jane Levy, who already earned her Final Girl Merit Badge as Mia in Alvarez’s Evil Dead, stars as Rocky, a young woman determined to escape her abusive mother and save her younger sister (Emma Bercovici) from a dead-end existence in Detroit. ›››

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