Overhyped Drivel

Rating: 2/10 (15 July 2018)

Let's make a movie where if you make the slightest noise, a hideous monster will come and kill you, then let's throw in kids and a newborn baby. That's the premise, but the framework built around it to flesh it out is so stupid and lazily written, it borders on absurd. The creatures are supposably indestructible and only use sound to hunt, but they can be killed with one shot and sound can be used against them? How are the creatures even effective if they're hunting every creaking branch and squeaky gate, not to mention wildlife and weather variables? It's reasonably acted but the plot holes and continuity errors are unforgivable and immersion breaking. Parts of it make such little sense that you begin to question if half the movie is still on the cutting room floor. In essence it's just another badly written monster movie with plenty of disdain shown to the viewer.