{"id":143,"date":"2016-09-17T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=143"},"modified":"2016-09-17T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T16:55:41","slug":"dont-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/horror\/dont-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S8XwWwPT8LE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[Probably a bit SPOILERy but not too much]<\/p>\n<p>This horror\/thriller from the director, Fede Alverez, who did the remake of the Evil Dead (yes, I don&#8217;t know why either) uses post-recession Detroit as the backdrop for a home invasion gone wrong thriller. Three young thieves, seeking to escape Detroit, are using security keys to target houses. There is the lure of a big score at the home of a blind, ex war vet. Like last days for a police officer, we all know the &#8216;just one last job&#8217; never ends well. Of course it goes wrong, and the vet isn&#8217;t quite as incapable as they&#8217;d anticipated. But neither is he as innocent and the house harbours a secret.<\/p>\n<p>In this respect Don&#8217;t Breathe is very similar to 2015&#8217;s less well known Intruders. That featured someone a home invasion, someone house bound (through agoraphobia), the tables turned on the three burglars, and a secret in the basement (do all American houses have something dodgy in the basement??). Indeed, it&#8217;s not just similar but aside from a few twists, almost identical.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s well shot and the tension is almost maintained at the sort of pace that makes you realise you&#8217;re hunching you shoulders in an uncomfortable manner. There&#8217;s one unpleasant, and probably unnecessary scene that seems more akin to the horror side of Alvarez&#8217;s canon. It works best instead as tightly focused thriller, and although it gets a bit laboured towards the end with one too many false endings, it&#8217;s effective and relentless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Probably a bit SPOILERy but not too much] This horror\/thriller from the director, Fede Alverez, who did the remake of the Evil Dead (yes, I don&#8217;t know why either) uses post-recession Detroit as the backdrop for a home invasion gone wrong thriller. Three young thieves, seeking to escape Detroit, are&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/horror\/dont-breathe\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}