2016’s Don’t Breathe was a great movie as is when it first came out, but over the last five years, it’s also proven to be quite influential, spawning its own mini-wave of sensory-driven horror fare like Hush, The Silence, and the Quiet Place series. And looking back on it, it really is at a level of pure genre thrills and laser-focused film craft that was bound to make other filmmakers and studios take notice. So, when I found out about a sequel to that same film, I was certainly interested to see how they could build on that kind of suffocating sonic atmosphere. I… can’t say I was expecting what we got.
