Don't Breathe

Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe is the most efficient horror-thriller of the 2010s — a film that takes a single, brilliant premise and executes it with ruthless precision. Three burglars break into a blind man's house to steal his fortune. The blind man is a Gulf War veteran. He locks the doors. The 88-minute cat-and-mouse game that follows is pure, white-knuckle cinema. Stephen Lang's Blind Man is terrifying not despite his disability but because of it — he has weaponized his other senses into a killing machine. The night vision sequence, where the lights go out and the audience sees through the Blind Man's world, is one of the most innovative set pieces in modern horror.