IGN was among the press outlets who recently attended a lunch interview with Don't Breathe director Fede Alvarez to tout the hit thriller's Blu-ray and DVD release (out today).
Here are the bonus materials included on the Blu-ray, DVD & Digital release of the film, which scared up $152.8 million on a budget of just under $10 million: Deleted scenes with director’s commentary; Commentary with Alvarez, co-writer Rodo Sayagues and actor Stephen Lang; and the following five featurettes: “No Escape” “Creating the Creepy House” “Meet the Cast” “Man in the Dark” and “The Sounds of Horror.”
"There's nothing I hate the most than a bad [home video] release," said Alvarez. "The one where you go, what, really? That's all he has? Some trailers for other movies. No, this one is definitely not that. We made sure it wasn't."
Alvarez praised home video supplemental materials, saying, "That's how I learned to make movies, watching behind the scenes." The director also said that with all the deleted scenes "you can put together an extended cut that is way longer because we killed so much stuff of the original cut, just to make it lean and mean." (The movie runs a mere 88 minutes.)
Given the sheer amount of deleted scenes, it begged the question why those scenes were cut. As Alvarez explained, "There was stuff that worked but for some reason the context it just dragged and those sort of things. Some of them are just not good, but it's always good to see them anyways. But a lot of what they do, there are a couple of those that I'm not proud of but still you learn a lot more about the characters and what they do the things they do and you learn a lot more about the blind man and his backstory. He talks a lot more -- that's one of the things we pulled back on. We thought the more he talked the less scary he was, so we tried to keep that to a minimum. On the deleted scenes, you'll get extended versions of a lot of the cellar talking. You get to know him a bit more and understand his point of view on life. If you like the movie, it's really entertaining to watch those scenes and kind of put together the bigger movie."
Alvarez continued, "There was a complete subplot with Rocky and Alex that -- there's actually one of the best shots in the movie is a kiss that they have in the middle of the movie. It was really one of those things that looked, the greatest Hollywood kiss and that's usually the thing that you kind of have to sacrifice when there's something that you're just forcing into the movie because you like the shot but it makes no sense. So we got rid of that, but the scene is there. It's also the plot where she was a little more manipulative. She was really dragging him back into the house all the time. Then we took that out. You felt it was hard to like her ... I think we took that out, but there's a lot of that."
Alvarez added that the ability to watch the movie at home and pause it allows the viewer to catch a revealing factoid they wouldn't have caught in the theatrical release: "You get the name of the blind guy because now you can pause it. There's a shot where you go in the room of the blind man for the first time, it goes through a bunch of photos. There's a photo of him in his military uniform. If you pause it there, you'll get his full name on his uniform that isn't mentioned in the movie."
For more of what Fede Alvarez had to tell us, check out his comments on making Don't Breathe 2 and why he's keen to do the Dragon Tattoo follow-up The Girl in the Spider's Web.
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