SIMPLE & TO THE POINT...!

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2019)

The current hot topic on the internet is this horror outing starring Sandra Bullock. When the world goes tits up (in this case a mysterious force causes people who're are exposed to it, mainly if they lock eyes on it, to kill themselves off while the ones who survive are insane anyway prompting them to attack the survivors, who've taken to blindfolding themselves while outdoors, exposing them to the entity so they can share in their group vision) a band of humans (Bullock & her 2 small children) try to reach a sanctuary at the end of a raging river to avoid the madness which has overtaken the planet. Wildly imaginative & horribly prescient, this end of times scenario would make for a great double bill w/last year's A Quiet Place, another doomsday affair predicated on another hampered sense (in that film loud noises) which humans have to embrace to survive. Keeping things to its most bare bones in terms of cause & affect (we never see the creatures or find out from whence they came), this nail biter is the closet thing the States will have as a true amalgamation of a J horror film (even though I remember a film from 1984 called Impulse which had people acting out their wildest fantasies overnight). Well worth the watch & hopefully a harbinger for things to come as Netflix starts exacting quality over quantity.