The Impulse-Image of Vampiric Capital and the Politics of Vision and Disability: Evil and Horror in Don’t Breathe

This article examines affective and semiotic aspects of Don’t Breathe’s construction evil horror. To work towards a post-genre approach to horror, horror are re-examined differentiated on discursive level in first theoretic step. The following film analysis takes Fede Álvarez’ 2016 Breathe as its case. In part, it draws from the Marxian metaphor vampiric capital employs Deleuzian focusing impulse-image Breathe. second monstrous then into account political notions film’s themes blindness (dis)ability, thereby moving (primarily) perspective rather discussion.