what makes this so memorably nerve-frying is the way Alvarez and cinematographer Pedro Luque use night-vision and every trick in the book and ones not invented yet to trap us in their vise. Claustrophobics, you've been warned
the interiors of the house, in which much of the movie's set, are used to perfection to make the movie feel even more claustrophobic with camerawork and sound FX that effectively embellishes the mix of action and horror
Don't Breathe is a master class in tension, and while its script could have been written on the back of an envelope, its editing and use of sound design is a triumph for film theorists
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
