A great idea ruined by a highly flawed script

Rating: 3/10 (13 July 2018)

Boy, did I want to like this film. Great idea, great acting, beautiful settings, impressive CGI....but a giant turd of a script.
******WARNING: MINOR SPOILERS******
Here is a list of only some of the things wrong with this film that could have been easily ironed out:

Toddler who clearly wanted a toy that makes noise was left to recover the batteries. Or the fact that the batteries were left there at all for him to grab. Heck, why didn't they take the batteries with them? They would have been highly useful for flashlights or other equipment.

Why didn't they have an escape plan, should one of the monsters get attracted to their house or property?

Why didn't they have a birthing plan? Somewhere to go during the birthing process where noise wouldn't be such a big issue. For example, a cave or one of the grain silo's seen on their property?

Given their current living conditions, how did they expect to keep a baby quiet? They cry, and there's nothing anyone can do about that. We're shown they've thought of something, but the idea is so terrible and only works if they're in close proximity to it. What if they have to travel, or are caught somewhere they can't get back fast enough from?

The fact that she's pregnant at all. I can almost overlook this one simply because of human nature, but the more logical choice would have been to abstain from sex until a reliable source of birth control could be found. The risks are just far too great.

Why are they living in a house at all? It's literally a death-trap. Just like we see when a lamp gets knocked over, accidents are bound to happen.

Poor communication between each other (even with sign language). For example, the daughter is clearly going through a difficult time, so when the father took the son out instead of her, he should have explained why. It's made clear in a scene later on that he's trying to teach the son critical things that the daughter already knew about survival.

When the wife is taking laundry upstairs and gets the bag hooked on a bent nail. She keeps pulling on the bag when clearly the best thing to do would be to reverse its path to unhook it. In addition, why did she not investigate what it got hooked on? Even if she didn't realize there was a nail sticking straight up, surely you would check out what happened to reduce risk in the future.

A person leaves the safety of a padded path and decides to run through a cornfield, making a ton of noise. I guess this could be chalked up to panic, so I'm more inclined to overlook this one.

A silo is used as an emergency beacon, should someone be stranded up there in an emergency. Why wasn't there a source of fuel (like wood) to maintain the beacon for more than a few minutes?

One of the monsters gets into a supposedly safe room (not sure how that happened). Someone wakes up to the sound of water, but didn't wake up to the sound of the monster crawling in there beforehand. We're shown those monsters make noise wherever they go but apparently not this time.

Someone is rescued from a grain silo via a piece of metal door, but then the rescuer somehow manages to sink by not holding onto the very same door.

The monsters are highly sensitive to sound, yet no one thought of using high frequency sound waves to repel them. Surely someone would have thought of this at some point during the early days of the monsters appearance. This would have spread like wildfire via social media and print publications before those went down. Early on in the film we're shown the husband collects newspapers from before and during the time the monsters appeared, so surely something like that would have appeared in one of those publications, or had been etched onto a wall somewhere.

A character in the film is trying to distract the monsters from someone else and his only thought is to sacrifice himself. Yet, he's standing in front of a shed with all manner of tools and metal. He has a pickaxe next to him he simply could have thrown in there to make an huge amount of noise.

A truck is rolling down a hill and doesn't seem to attract monsters at all.

At some point during the film, the father is adamant the daughter doesn't go into the basement. We later learn there is literally no reason for this at all. On the same note, she seems to know how to operate the equipment even though she's never been down there. There are dozens of pieces of equipment down there, yet she knows exactly which one of use.