Rodo Sayague News Today

The message in co-writer & director Rodo Sayagues’ above-average sequel “Don’t Breathe 2” is don’t mess with a blind man.

was undeniably ingenious, asking, as it did, for audiences to accept a slasher film where the antagonist in question is not only the victim of a home invasion by armed thieves, but an elderly blind man, as well. A healthy portion of the film’s subsequent success (including a $150 million-plus take at the box office, off of a $10 million budget) can thus be attributed to Stephen Lang’s performance as the “bad guy” in question, a trained killer capable of projecting more menace in silent...