(Seriously, you will notbelievehow badly things go awry.)

A lot of that suffering you see onscreen is real.

This movie was very hard to make on the actors.

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Credit: Gordon Timpen

You have to verify that the actors are not too relaxed or not too comfortable.

But, at the last second, you change it, and make him come from the right.

You get great reactions out of them.

Then they just scream at you but that doesnt matter.

How much these actors get pissed?, he continues.

Thats a side note.

But I think Jane did a fantastic job.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for her work.

We wanted to make something that was 50 percent horror and 50 percent thriller, right?

That makes for a very unsettling setup.

I think the first list we put together of actors, he was on the top, Alvarez says.

All of which leaves just one final question: How long can Alvarez holdhisbreath?

Not a lot, not a lot, he laughs.

I need to do more cardio.

[InDont Breathe] Id be dead pretty soon.

See the trailer forDont Breathebelow.