The Silence (2019)

"In Netflix’s dreadfully dull horror movie The Silence, Earth is attacked by beasts that hunt by sound, drawing inevitable comparisons to another recent film sharing a similar premise and a ‘keep it down’ title: John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place. The release of these movies in such close procession reminded me of a period in the 90s when everything from Hollywood seemed to arrive in pairs, from animations about insects (Antz, A Bug’s Life) to lava-spitting disaster movies (Dante’s Peak, Volcano) and imbecilic action films involving skydivers (Terminal Velocity, Drop Zone)."