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I was so excited to watch this movie. I grabbed my chips, and some ice-cream, and got ready to watch some old-school horror. But from the moment the main characters started to be introduced, I knew something was off.

This is not a "werewolf horror" movie. This is a family drama that tells the sotry of how a husband with an inherited substance addiction (or a genetic mental disease) unwillingly destroys his family, through the metaphor of a werewolf.

I mean, I'm not against psychological horror that plays around mental stigmas, but the fact that the story was built around this, left the werewolf concept useless for me. And I was here for the werewolf concept...

And also there's this trend in movies where a kid that's apparently not a "kid" anymore acts like a freaking baby, and everybody around them also acts as if they are. It drives me nuts.

Besides these, the forced "rising to the occasion" of the modern-feminist-mom felt flat. I mean yeah, taking the subtext into context, the dynamic between the parents makes sense but... It felt uncomfortable. Whatever.

Not the movie I though it'd be.

This film is a carbon-copy of Miguel Ángel Vivas' "Extinction", which came out in 2015. The rest is for my comment to be long enough.

It has been quite a while since this film came out, and I liked it very much the first time I saw it. It's not a bad film at all.

BUT. Today, as I do everyday, I was looking for a random movie to watch. There is this site called BestSimilar, highly recommend it - and I was looking for a horror movie similar to Bird Box. Then in the list I saw this movie titled "Extinciton", and I remember seeing the poster and the name at least twice before, but never gave it a try, so I did this time. And I am quite surprised that A Quiet Place is a knock-off of another movie. I mean this film was so big when it came out, I wonder why no one made a fuss about it. And I feel d*mb and betrayed.

Huh, it _is_ a better movie than "Extinction" production-wise, but it doesn't change the fact that everything is the same. How could they get away with this?

This is one of the worst movies I have ever watched to date, and I have watched some really bad movies... I have no idea how this movie got a 6.3 score on iMDB. Really, people? This is what 6.3 stands for?!

The whole film could easily be seventeen minutes long or something. It is filled with filler scenes, and I got bored out of my mind. I get that the writer-director wanted to craeate an atmospheric, slow-burn, old-school horror movie, but the "atmospheric", "slow" and "old" is way over-done in here. Literally nothing happens for twenty minutes, then something extremely bold happens for 1 second but is so ungrounded that it just goes away with the wind, then nothing happens again for another 20-30 minutes, then the bloody finalé comes. No explanations, no purpose. Neither the dialogues nor the reactions are life-like. The first half was promising actually; but when the second half is the exact same as the first half, it gets boring... Seriosuly, what was the aim of this movie? What did it tell? Nothing.

I recommend watching something else EVEN IF you have 1,5 hours to spare. Seriously.