Don't fall asleep!

Rating: 5/10 (2 September 2016)

Is this what passes for "horror" these days? At least the cheesy horror from the 80's never took itself seriously and was still scary! Don't Breathe has no right to call itself a horror even if it was created by the guys who made the Evil Dead.
First of all it's another one of those movies that are billed the "scariest movie ever..." Blah blah blah, they've been saying that ever since the Blair witch project. This movie wasn't the worst thing I've seen, Stephen Lang does well playing a blind guy but the movie is mostly annoying people sneaking around the house, it gets old fast!
That brings me to the rest of the cast, namely the 3 other leads, who seem to be the most cliché characters ever! The trio consist of the token hot girl, the asshole and the nerd! (Guess which one lives and which one gets killed) hmmm ... What's more these people are playing criminals growing up in a poor run down neighbourhood and looking at them you would think they are models in a Calvin Klein commercial! Very realistic Mr Director!!
The other thing that annoyed me to tears was that horrible sound effect, you know the one, its in just about every movie you see these days, it sounds like a low pitched long metallic metal scraping sound! I think it was in every damn scene!
This movie had potential but then they made the viewer feel sorry for the criminals and made the poor old blind guy the villain, that's where it lost me.. One thing I did appreciate however was the homage to Cujo at the end, I'm not sure if this was intentional or a rip off but I noticed it.. The dog attacking the woman inside the car (which was the same make and model in both films by the way)..
In summing up, the movie started off okay but then got worse unfortunately.. It was actually boring, there was no gore surprisingly and the characters were cliché..