Unpopular opinion time: This movie is nowhere near as good as people have made it out to be. It damn sure shouldn't be in the running for best horror film of the year.A small family has learned to live in total silence to avoid attracting the attention of monsters that prey by sound. A series of mishaps and internal tensions threaten their security, putting everything they have gained at risk.
The story is stupidly simple with only about three jump scares to provide the horror. In a year that gave us incredible imaginative monsters like Annihilation, the film getting the most buzz has ones that look like the demons from Constantine mixed with fish. It's derivative at best and a rip-off at worst.
And the ending! Oh God. Don't even get me started.
To give the film some praise, Emily Blunt is amazing and the cast really commits to using sign language. If this (God forbid) gets nominated for anything this year, it might as well be for score because Marco Beltrami is probably the only reason why the jump scares work at all.
A lot of people really loved this movie and a sequel has already been greenlit but I honestly wish I had never watched it, much less paid money for it.
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