Any innovation ruined by checking-the-boxes horror movie choices

Rating: 4/10 (9 February 2020)

It's a contemporary American horror movie, which means the heroes are supposed to be smart, but actually do lots of dumb things, the creatures are arbitrarily intelligent and powerful (not infinitely powerful: arbitrarily. Randomly.) and there's bog-standard This Is Scary music to tell you when something scary happens.
Meh all around, but I'll say what pushed me over the edge was the music. A film entirely about how you can't talk, can't make a noise, has several scenes of (good sound editing!) noise of the breeze in the trees, quiet footsteps, etc so a giveaway noise is that much more jarring,... then just has other scenes full of incidental music. No. Hard fail. Not clever film-making but just checking-the-boxes horror movie time.