Storyline: A family struggles to survive in a world terrorized by a deadly, primeval species who hunt only with their acute hearing. The story of a family struggling to survive in a world terrorized by a deadly, primeval species who have evolved for millions of years in the pitch darkness of a vast underground cave system, hunting only with their acute hearing. As the family seeks refuge in a remote haven where they can wait out the invasion, they start to wonder what kind of world will remain when they’re ready to emerge. Deaf portrayal Hearing actress Kiernan Shipka plays the lead character, a deaf teenager who battles monsters. Shipka learned American Sign Language for the role, and director John R. Leonetti said in an interview, “She learned to sign for the film, and now she’s flawless, like she’s been signing her entire life. She seems to have an almost innate sense of what it’s like being a deaf person.”Deaf celebrities Nyle DiMarco and Marlee Matlin and other members of the deaf community criticized Leonetti for saying that Shipka learning to sign was synonymous with knowing the culturally deaf experience and for undermining deaf representation by casting a hearing actor
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