Say what you will about Fede Alvarez‘s “Evil Dead” remake, it certainly declared he was a filmmaker who wasn’t afraid to go for broke. And Sam Raimi seems to agree, continuing his collaboration with director by signing up to produce his next movie, “Don’t Breathe.” And with Alvarez once again recruiting Jane Levy to star, it sees him flexing those genre muscles once again.
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Something of a riff on “Wait Until Dark” starring Audrey Hepburn, the movie follows a trio of teens who sense an easy mark in robbing the home of a blind Gulf War veteran. But of course, they’re wrong, and things get very, very ugly from there. And it appears mileage will vary on this one, with our review out of SXSW saying it’s “a well-crafted, but ultimately hollow genre exercise.”
Co-starring Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang, Emma Bercovici, Franciska Torocsik, Christian Zagia, Katia Bokor, and Sergej Onopko, “Don’t Breathe” opens on August 26th. Watch the new trailer above.
