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The Next Picture Show

#046: (Pt. 2) Don't Breathe / Wait Until Dark

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In part two of this week's double feature, the NPS crew discuss Fede Alvarez's recent horror-thriller DON'T BREATHE.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:05.1

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:11.9

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:18.6

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here again with... Keith Phipps. And... Tonisha Robinson. In the first half of this conversation, we talked about wait until dark. Hitchcockian thriller about three crooks who try to steal a doll from a blind woman. And now, in the second half, we're moving on to don't breathe. a thriller about three crooks who try to steal a doll from a blind woman. And now in the second half, we're moving on to Don't Breathe, a thriller about three crooks who try to steal money from a blind man. Here the crooks are Rocky, Alex, Alex, Alex, and Money, who have been using Alex's father's security business to gain access to his client's homes when they're away. But greed and desperation lead them to depart from their usual MO and break into a house while

0:55.9

the occupant is still there. He is a nameless blind veteran played by Stephen Lang, who's

1:01.8

sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement money. What they don't anticipate

1:05.9

is that he's extremely prepared for just such an occasion. His house is secured by multiple locks on the doors and windows.

1:12.9

He has a vicious attack dog.

1:14.7

And he himself is a physically imposing man with such an acute sense of hearing

1:19.0

that one creek and the floorboard is enough to get him on the move.

1:22.7

Who's there?

1:24.1

Okay, man.

1:24.7

Just chill, all right?

1:25.6

Look, I was wasted and I wandered in, so that was my bed, alright?

1:30.3

So I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna leave, okay?

1:37.3

Stay right there.

1:41.3

Don't move.

1:43.3

Yeah, that's right. Stay right there. Don't move.

1:48.0

Yeah, that's right. I know what's in there and I ain't even without it.

1:50.0

You got me?

1:52.0

Now you do as I say, alright?

1:56.0

Do you hear me or what?

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