We Got This Covered
Don’t Breathe earns its place amongst genre thrillers for the basement blackout chase alone, but there’s so much more worth indulging in. Alvarez is back, and he kicks the freakin’ door down with his second feature. It took him a while, but it’s worth all the vent-crawling, breath-holding and blind-man-chasing ferocity. Tension is hard to come by, but Don’t Breathe has plenty to spare. Let’s just hope Alvarez is quicker to the gun on this next flick, because I don’t know if I can wait three more damn years for some more of this bleak, genre-bending goodness. Speed it up next time, eh?
What if the thieves from Don't Breathe broke into a Purge party house? That's the basic concept behind Monster Party. Read the review to know more.
Variety
Crafting a convincing tale of survival against steep odds in a harsh, unforgiving landscape would seem to be out of the reach of most low-budget independent filmmakers. Fortunately for twin-brother directors Alex and Andrew Smith, they’re able to rely on a key visual effect that won’t show up on any ledger sheet: the mountains around Montana’s Paradise Valley. Gorgeously shot in Big Sky Country, and stripped down to its most elemental components, “Walking Out” strands father-and-son hunters played by Matt Bomer and Josh Wiggins in the wilderness after an accident, and its unabashedly folky, less-is-more approach proves quietly moving.
Variety
If you can imagine a multi-movie-mashup of boardroom suspenser, “Die Hard” redux and zombie apocalypse — well, too bad, director Joe Lynch and scripter Matias Caruso have already beat you to the punch. “Mayhem,” their rousingly gonzo thriller about the violent commingling of infectious disease and corporate malfeasance, is a smartly constructed and sardonically funny indie with attitude that somehow manages the tricky feat of being exuberantly over the top even as it remains consistently on target.
