But there’s a limit to how much an audience is willing to forgive, even in the horror genre. In the end, the film easily picks a side and suggests that, since Nordstrom feels really bad about what he’s done, he’s not really all that bad.
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‘Brand New Cherry Flavor’ TV Review: Netflix’s Gothic Horror Series Is Ballsy But HollowĪnd yet, “Don’t Breathe 2” doesn’t argue that both Nordstrom and Raylan are equals. Even the motive for all these armed goons to assist in the villain’s central, diabolical scheme is that, apparently, they think only one person in the country is capable of cooking meth. Characters who, it turns out, the villains need alive have already been nearly killed by those same villains for… reasons, apparently. The twists of the plot are briefly intriguing, until you realize that the new developments make all the old developments nonsensical.
Sadly, the more this sequel progresses, the less sense it makes, both logically and emotionally. If they weren’t trapped in a most unfortunate plot, they would have made the movie. There are moments, framings, and lighting schemes in “Don’t Breathe 2” that are as unpleasant and unsettling, in the best possible way, as the original. Sayagues brings some of the flair from Alvarez’s original “Don’t Breathe,” courtesy of returning cinematographer Pedro Luque, with long and complicated shots of the Nordstrom house that show off the film’s intricate set design.
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‘Don’t Breathe’ Filmmaker Fede Alvarez to Direct Horror Movie Set in White House Nordstrom’s backstory - in which his daughter died, and he went to unthinkable lengths to replace her - gave shape to his wickedness without making him sympathetic. As played by Stephen Lang, the former Navy SEAL Norman Nordstrom was a grotesquely violent kidnapper, murderer, and much, much worse, whose motives did nothing to excuse his evil. The original “Don’t Breathe,” co-written by Sayagues and director Fede Alvarez, was a violent and mean-spirited horror thriller about a group of teenaged thieves who break into a rich blind man’s house, only to discover what he’s hiding isn’t money. “Don’t Breathe 2” may not be the first horror movie sequel to try to transform the monster into an antihero, but it’s hard to think of another one that whiffs it this hard. At least, that’s the theory that Rodo Sayagues’ “Don’t Breathe 2” seems desperate to prove, despite an overwhelming lack of evidence to the contrary. If you hang around with the boogeyman long enough, he stops boogying, and turns back into a man.
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