Extremely and excessively gorey - to the point where it ruins the movie, and then some

Rating: 4/10 (7 November 2019)

Man, I gotta say, I'm normally not into horror/gore/scary-type movies, but I thought this one looked kinda interesting. I thought that the initial concept might hold. I love the idea of a scary movie in a beautiful 24hour paradise of flowers and rolling hills, etc. Sounds like it could be pretty cool. Unique. I was thinking along the lines of A Quiet Place, which overall, I thought was great! It was a clever twist that made it a unique viewing.
And there are times in the movie, where it seems to show that it is a smart, clever movie, with some pretty decent acting. Then is knocks all that down and goes "Nope". This is a seriously up movie. Even before they go to the place where all the scary stuff happens, it's super messed up. An even happens that was waaay more graphic and excessive than it needed to be. And then they go to the Swedish meadow, etc, and it pretty much jumps right into overkill nastiness. Multiple times in this movie, I thought "okay, you could have stopped this 3 minutes ago and made your point", but they just keep tossing the guts and gore at you left and right, without a real strong reason. It could have been cool if they kept it somewhat believable and that would have gone a long way for us foreigners. "Does this kind of $#!+ really happen here?" But it goes so far beyond a possibility, and into just buckets of goo and jacked sensibility, and just plain ruins it. I made it to the end of the movie, but just barely. I give it four stars because it truly is a beautiful movie, cinematically and it is a clever concept. I really wanted to like this movie. It could have been great, and there are bits and pieces that are, but in the end, it's just a big, dumb gorefest.