Horror History: Happy Birthday EVIL DEAD & DON’T BREATHE’s Jane Levy!
Mike Sprague
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On this day in horror history, Jane Levy was born in 1989. Levy is best known around here for her roles in director Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe.
Born in Los Angeles, Jane Levy was raised in northern California. She attended Goucher College for one year before dropping out to pursue an acting career. She made her screen debut in Shameless in 2011. She was then cast in Suburgatory.
Jane Levy made her feature film debut in Nobody Walks. She also co-starred in the Halloween comedy Fun Size. Then came Alvarez’s Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe.
She has since starred in the Netflix dark comedy I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. And the horror-comedy film Office Uprising. Levy starred as Diane “Jackie” Torrance on Hulu’s recently canceled Stephen King series Castle Rock.
She also snagged the lead role on Netflix’s thriller series What/If. She is currently starring as the titular Zoey in NBC’s musical dramedy Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.
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Levy starred in Evil Dead as Mia, a drug addict determined to kick the habit. She asks her brother, and his friends to accompany her to a remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Then they find a mysterious Book of the Dead. And when they read aloud from it, they awaken an ancient demon. Then all hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.
The film sports a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus reads: It may lack the absurd humor that underlined the original, but the new-look Evil Dead compensates with brutal terror, gory scares, and gleefully bloody violence.
Levy then starred in Don’t Breathe as a thief who gets her kicks by breaking into the houses of wealthy people. Then her boyfriend gets word about a blind veteran who won a major cash settlement following the death of his only child. Figuring he’s an easy target, they invade the man’s secluded home in an abandoned neighborhood. Finding themselves trapped inside, the young intruders must fight for their lives after making a shocking discovery about their supposedly helpless victim.
The film sports an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: Don’t Breathe smartly twists its sturdy premise to offer a satisfyingly tense, chilling addition to the home invasion genre that’s all the more effective for its simplicity.
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