Horror movies, good and bad, are one of my favorite things about the fall season. That, as well as pumpkin spice lattes and the seasonal scented candles — uh, I mean, the crispness in the air and excellent television lineup! Anyway, I thought I’d kick off the season just a smidge early by catching “Don’t Breathe,” the most recent horror feature of director Fede Alvarez (who directed the pretty decent 2014 “Evil Dead” remake).

As I enjoyed his different and new take on “Evil Dead,” I thought I’d find plenty redeeming traits in his newest movie, where three young thieves break into a blind vet’s house to find that he is a lot more terrifying than they expected. Mr. Alvarez, what have you done?

I don’t go into movies trying to find the bad. I want to enjoy each experience because if I don’t that means I’ll have wasted a perfectly good 1 ½ to 2 hours that I could have spent watching or doing something better. Heck, I was one of the few people who seemed to enjoy the hot mess that “Suicide Squad” was. But there are so many plot holes and annoyances stemming from character stupidity in “Don’t Breathe” that the movie wheezes out like a punctured lung.

The acting is perfectly fine here, and the cinematography is top-notch. No problem, all well and good. But I started counting plot holes and hating characters two minutes into the movie. We find out rather quickly that the three protagonists of the film are young thieves, and the leader of the group is the son of an owner of a home security company, and it seems that they have been robbing the clients of said company for some time.

Here is where the movie hits its first major problem: The characters are not likable — at all. They are all scumbag thieves, and the only one who is even slightly sympathetic is leading lady Rockie (played very well by Jane Levy), who steals to take care of her little sister and deadbeat, abusive mother. This is made moot however, because she is represented as also stealing for the luxury, thrill and joy of it. The movie never brings up how noticeable it should be to the police that all of these houses owned by the shamelessly rich using the same security company are being serially robbed.

When they break into the house and discover that their target is a lot more than they bargained for, the plot holes and stupidity keep flying, until about three quarters of the way through, the movie makes a disgusting turn, when we found out that the blind man is a whole lot more bad than the thieves happen to be. This brings it back to being that there is literally no one sympathetic in this film, including the blind man who at first you suspect is just a paranoid victim. The blind man’s uncanny abilities of hearing, sound and scent have been amplified due to his disability, however, these heightened senses seem to switch on and off throughout the movie. At many points he can hear the ever-so-slightest noise in a floorboard, and at another moment he can’t hear a vibrating phone in a completely silent room or can’t smell the cigarette Rockie is smoking just outside his windows. But he can smell the thieves’ shoes from across the living room.

After it is revealed what kind of bad things the antagonist blind man (played by Stephen Lang) is capable of, another humongous plot hole is revealed at the unsatisfying and nonsensical end of the movie — an ending so half-baked that I threw up my arms and audibly said an expletive in the completely empty theater. (I try to catch early afternoon matinees). I hope that you, the viewer, if you decide to see this movie are able to spot the dozen or so complete lapses in logic this movie throws at the screen, especially at the end.

Hardcore genre fans and those who live and breathe horror movies all the time may certainly enjoy “Don’t Breathe.” Heck, it seems like most other critics do too, as I do want to point out — to keep things fair — that the movie has an 86 percent fresh rating on Rottentomatoes.com. But there are so many blatantly obvious problems with the movie’s own logic and awful characters — and the disgustingly twisted turn it takes near the end — that I simply found myself unsure of what the good things about this movie were.

However the movie has been a huge success critically and financially. It has made almost $60 million worldwide after being produced on a $9 million dollar budget. That’s in addition to its high praise by other critics.

So if you really want to go check out “Don’t Breathe,” don’t let my lack of praise stop you.

I just simply didn’t get it.