Overhyped and gimmicky garbage.

Rating: 3/10 (31 January 2019)

After hearing so many people say this movie was absolutely amazing, I had to see it. I'm a big fan of horror and in today's world there aren't that many good horror movies because they either rely on jumpscares and gimmicks. So imagine my disappointment when I found out that this film was just another gimmicky horror flick that plays on one specific part of human nature (being able to see) instead of actually being a film. You've probably heard this by now, but this film is pretty much Netflix's "A Quiet Place" but only without the few things that made Quiet Place slightly above average. The acting is good, but other than that, there's nothing else. It's just an absolute bore of a film that at no point had my interest. Horror films that try and take something away from humans to see how we survive like being able to see or make noise are, in my opinion, lazy. Why not write something with the good elements of horror that people like without needing a gimmick and some semi-likable characters? Halloween didn't need a gimmick, Friday the 13th didn't need a gimmick, so why does this need a gimmick? Because it's the only thing that makes this film slightly interesting and tense to people who just see the same boring blockbusters because they're popular.