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2''Hold Your Breath'' is a 2012 horror film by Creator/TheAsylum. Seven kids, formerly friends in high school, head off on a camping trip together. While on their way, they pass a graveyard, one of them fails to hold his breath, and they accidentally inhale the spirit of a mass murderer, Klaus Van Hausen. Possessing one teen after another, he goes on a murderous rampage that can only be stopped by one man.
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4Not to be confused with ''Film/DontBreathe''.
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6!This film exhibits the following tropes:
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8* AbandonedHospital: The Sanitorium, the prison where Klaus was killed.
9* BodySurf: Klaus jumps into multiple victims throughout the film.
10* CellphonesAreUseless: At the beginning of the film, Johnny confiscates all of the cell phones to ensure that people don't get distracted on the trip.
11* ElectricTorture: Klaus employs this for his early victims, but drops it for the Eye Scream.
12* EyeScream: Klaus has a thing about eyes. Keys, hash pipes, mixers, sticks, knives...
13* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Samantha]] gets bisected with barbed wire.
14* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Johnny and Natasha are prone to this according to their friends. Including [[spoiler:in the morgue of the abandoned sanitarium]].
15* RedEyesTakeWarning:
16** One of the side effects of being possessed by Klaus is glowing red eyes.
17** Reversed with [[spoiler:Warden Wilkes]] who produces the side effect of [[spoiler:glowing blue eyes]] when he possesses somebody.

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