Don’t Breathe 2 poster: Beware the Blind Man and his hammer

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

It has been just over a week since the release of the trailer for director Rodo Sayagues' Don't Breathe 2 – that trailer is embedded above – and now the poster has arrived online, just over a month away from the film's August 13th theatrical release date. You can see the poster below. The first image we ever saw from Don't Breathe 2 showed the Blind Man (played by Stephen Lang) holding a hammer, and now he's holding a hammer on the poster as well. So it seems likely that someone in the movie is going to be brutalized with that tool. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the Blind Man when he picks that up. (Or at any other time.)

Just like the first Don't Breathe (watch it HERE), Don't Breathe 2 has been written by Fede Alvarez and Sayagues. Alvarez directed the first film, but passed the directing duties on the sequel over to Sayagues. The story they crafted for the sequel is set 

several years after the home invasion of the first movie, with the Blind Man living in quiet solace… until his past sins catch up to him.

The Blind Man has been hiding out for years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a house fire. Their quiet existence is shattered when a group of kidnappers show up and take the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

The synopsis and the trailer give the impression that the Blind Man is the hero this time around, an idea that hasn't gone over well with some of us who remember the horrible things he did last time. Alvarez has assured fans that the Blind Man is not the hero here, or even an anti-hero. He described the character as an "anti-villain". So we'll see what that means.

Lang is joined in the cast by Adam Young, Bobby Schofield, Rocci Williams, and Madelyn Grace.

Alvarez and Sayagues produced the film with Rob Tapert and genre icon Sam Raimi. When they were promoting the first movie, Raimi said the idea Alvarez and Sayagues had for Don't Breathe 2 was "only the greatest idea for a sequel I've ever heard." 

Don't Breathe 2 has been rated R for "strong bloody violence, gruesome images, and language".