‘Hold Your Breath’ Review: New Horror Movie Full Of Old Scares

Clapboards slam and crack like thunder. The weathervane creaks like a listing warship. When the wind, heavy with unceasing dust, whooshes, rumbles and roars, it’s as if the L train is clattering by, six inches from your apartment window.

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HOLD YOUR BREATH ★★ (2/4 stars)
Directed by: Karrie Crouse and Will Joines
Written by: Karrie Crouse
Starring: Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Alona Jane Robbins, Annaleigh Ashford, Arron Shiver, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Running time: 94 mins.

A domestic horror thriller set in the Oklahoma panhandle during the late 1930s Dust Bowl, Hold Your Breath is a veritable orgy of Foley. Along with a music score that sounds like someone trying to tune a wire fence while clanking forks on a stop sign, this aggressive soundscape intends........

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