An Overrated Place

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2019)

(1 out of 10 stars; spoilers only after the ***)
Please, do not believe the hype!! To enjoy this movie, you have to be able to suspend all rationality and disbelief.
The film is completely not scary and lacking any gripping atmosphere. All choices, behavior and action are just not rational or believable. Don't even get me started on all the plot holes (though I will later on)... there are so many things in this movie that just didn't make any sense.
What bugged me the most was probably the Instagram look of the set pieces and cinematography. Who keeps putting up all those candles and strings of lights and who washes and keeps in shape their weekend-getaway-in-the-woods snuggly clothes? This is supposed to be a post-apocalyptic horror film.
***spoiler alert***
Here is a non-exhaustive list of all the stupidity in the movie (including spoilers):
1. Clearly, the son has lived in this world for quite a bit. He would therefore have known better than to turn on the sound of the toy. He clearly deserved to be eaten.
2. Why don't they just live near the all-sound-muffling waterfall?
3. Where does their electricity come from?
4. WHY ON EARTH would you ever even think of having another baby in such a world?
5. Is this guy a military radio technician or how did he assemble and use all this equipment?
6. They just put a matress over the door and that is enough to save them from being heard by the monsters?
7. Clearly the military would have tried something similar to the microphone feedback-noise to get rid of the sound-sensitive aliens (like a dog whistle to begin with?)
8. Why was that humungous nail even there, upside down in the stair? Why had they never noticed it before?
9. How can you spike your bare foot with such a nail without making any noise of pain?
10. The baby arrives just when daddy and kid are outside enjoying their time by the waterfall.
11. How does she GIVE BIRTH TO A BABY wihtout making noise????
12. Their plan apparently was to keep the baby IN A BOX. For how long? How feed it? How change diapers etc. without the aliens hearing it? Give me a break.
13. Why does dad just sacrifice himself? There would have been so many other options he could have tried to save the kids AND himself. Does not make any sense.
14. So the aliens eradicated all military from the face of the earth. And the solution in the end is to simply blow the aliens' heads off with a shotgun?!? Nobody ever tried this before?
15. The hint to a sequel in the end was just the nail in the coffin.
Despite everything I just said, this film has A 7.5 IMDB RATING AND A METASCORE OF 82.