Sound Proofing - Smart people doing stupid things

Rating: 5/10 (2 July 2018)

A continuation of the trend for scripts to be based purely on smart people doing stupid things to move the story along.
In this case they've created a story along the interesting concept of monsters with fantastic hearing who hunt and kill swiftly. Good premise, and it could have worked if they'd got someone who understood the laws of physics and extrapolated how these new condition of keeping quiet could impact on how people act.
Our family live in a farm house with the windows open, no attempt to sound proof what-so-ever, hang out in barns with flimsy roofs and generally make all the wrong efforts to keep quiet. Apparently barefeet and sand is the way to keep your foot traffic noise down, not silent sneakers. Where making noise is a matter of life and death some simple sound concepts seem beyond them. Did the film makers not consult the most basic of sound engineers?
Stylistically the film is pretty well done, but you have to be as stupid as the characters to buy the story and judging by the other reviews viewers in general are not that stupid and have felt like me their intelligence has been insulted, in a high production standard broken script kind of way.