Description

Fear Level: Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: RAPE, assault, sexual assault, ableism, dog related violence

Y'all, this is a tough one. Let's put it out there - the third act twist is RAPE. For two acts this movie walks a fine line along the edge of abielism, then it very intentionally throws itself off of a horrible and disgusting cliff.

• Director: Fede Alvarez
• Writers: Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues
• Stars: Stephen Lang (Avatar, Freddy Lounds in Manhunter), Jane Levy (Evil Dead, Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist), Dylan Minnette (Let Me In, Lost), Daniel Zovatto (Greg from It Follows)
• What’s it about?
  • Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.

Topics of Discussion:

• Chekov's everything
• What the fuck is up with Money?
• Tyler Perry melodrama
• Ableism
• A good movie wrapped in a trashbag full of bricks and dumped in the river
• Third act rape twists: a thesis.
• Disabled people as monsters
• Veterans as monsters
• Happy dogs pretending to be scary dogs
• These very dead protagonists

Recommendations:

• Center for Disabilty Rights article by Dominick Evans called “Don’t Breathe Uses Blindness as a Plot Device while Casting a Seeing Actor”
• Laura Kremmel - http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/disability-in-dont-breathe/
• John Wiswell - Evil Isn’t a Disability - https://firesidefiction.com/evil-isnt-a-disability
• Jordan Phillips - http://thebigpicturemagazine.com/thousand-words-the-horrors-of-sensory-disability-the-actualisation-of-disabled-power-in-hush-and-dont-breathe/
• Being Seen - Elsa Sjunneson https://www.snarkbat.com/being-seen
• Hush
• Silver Bullet
• A Quiet Place
• Wait Until Dark
• “Granny”
• Mad Max: Fury Road,
• Monkey Shines
• Deafula
• Netflix's "Daredevil"

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