Don't Breathe 2 (2021)

Well, they've certainly fulfilled the brief, taking all that ugliness of the first movie (remember when things turned unexpectedly nasty in the basement?) and fashioning a really equally vile sequel in which that blind ex-Navy Seal kidnapper, rapist and murderer in number one returns, the victim of another home invasion but this time a kind of antihero as he resists the efforts of a group of men trying to kidnap his daughter, a crime that starts out mega-gory and ends with sickening "who thinks up this stuff?" gothic horror involving, wait for it, involuntary organ donation, some Grande Dame Guignol psycho-biddy grotesquery, hacked off arms and popped eyeballs.

★★★☆☆

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Don't Breathe (2016)

One of a spate of recent confined-space horror-thrillers in which there are no heroes just self-interested, largely unlikeable survivors (Green Room, 10 Cloverfield Lane), this story of thieves who get more than they bargained for when they break into a blind man's home goes places you wish it didn't, abandoning restraint for convoluted nastiness but nevertheless, once it is all over, you'll concede you haven't taken a breath during its tightly-packaged thrill ride.

★★★★☆

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