The Silence (2019)

Why does this movie even exist? We already have "The Birds" and "A Quiet Place" so, even if this were done well (and it's really not), why?

We follow a family with a deaf daughter (who can conveniently speak since she's only been deaf for a few years) as the world gets turned upside down. Big bat-like swarms descend on any sound, so everyone's gotta be quiet. Sure, we all know that's scary due to A Quiet Place's proof of concept, but the truly terrible CGI monsters rather ruin any chance viewers would ever jump and the "seen it before but BETTER" thought in the back of my mind during every single scene gets in the way of ever being too invested. There was also a huge timeline issue. From my point of view, following the family, about two days pass from the time they leave home to the time they visit a town for antibiotics. But that town is almost completely vacant, monster eggs are already incubating in stinky corpses, and a weird cult called "The Hushed" who've cut out their tongues already exists. That seems kind of quick.

Fails in both execution and originality.

D+