A Quiet Place * * * *
The concept of a family living in a country home and trying to survive in a world that has been taken over by aliens or a contagion or zombies is not exactly new. Only recently there was It Comes at Night. Still, like a haunted house, it's a reliable setup that makes a good scenario for scaring the crap out of an audience.
A Quiet Place doesn't waste too much time on a back story, we get straight into it. We don't know where these rather aggressive aliens came from and to be honest I have to wonder if they are any worse than what we currently have to put up with. You see, these aliens are attracted by noise, not by smell or sight, just noise. Make any noise and they'll kill you - tear you apart, limb from limb. And you know, I have to say, some days (and nights) I wish it were true. When some moron thinks it's okay to wake up an entire neighborhood with his motorbike, or when someone thinks a whole beach full of people should forfeit the quiet natural pleasure of the beach so he can ride his jet ski, or when I can't even have a cup of tea in a cafe without some god awful "music" blaring out, and I could give you many other instances - on such days I often wish that such Aliens actually would descend upon these noise polluters and utterly, brutally, bloodily annihilate them and rip their heads off and...and.. and .... but enough of my fantasies, back to the review...
They look a bit like the original Alien; I think that's because Alien was the best looking monster that cinema ever invented so A Quiet Place, like most alien invasion films, just copy him a bit.
The family have three children at the start, however, children can be noisy, so let the countdown begin... besides, she's pregnant, so very soon she'll be popping another one. Yes, a cry baby on the way. Not exactly an event one could feel excited about given their circumstances.
It's a great looking film which conveys so much with very little dialogue, for they cannot talk to each without attracting monsters. They mostly use sign language and we are given subtitles. The family are ironically fortunate in that one of their children was born deaf so the whole family already know sign language. However, the deaf child is responsible for an event that burdens her with guilt and a sense of being ostracised from her own family.
Despite the familiar scenario, this isn't your run of the mill horror and splatter. Starring Emily Blunt as Mum, and her husband John Krasinksi (who is also the director), A Quiet Place takes itself - and it's genre - seriously and respects its audience. It is tense and frightening at times, superbly acted and well worth a viewing.
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They look a bit like the original Alien; I think that's because Alien was the best looking monster that cinema ever invented so A Quiet Place, like most alien invasion films, just copy him a bit.
The family have three children at the start, however, children can be noisy, so let the countdown begin... besides, she's pregnant, so very soon she'll be popping another one. Yes, a cry baby on the way. Not exactly an event one could feel excited about given their circumstances.
It's a great looking film which conveys so much with very little dialogue, for they cannot talk to each without attracting monsters. They mostly use sign language and we are given subtitles. The family are ironically fortunate in that one of their children was born deaf so the whole family already know sign language. However, the deaf child is responsible for an event that burdens her with guilt and a sense of being ostracised from her own family.
Despite the familiar scenario, this isn't your run of the mill horror and splatter. Starring Emily Blunt as Mum, and her husband John Krasinksi (who is also the director), A Quiet Place takes itself - and it's genre - seriously and respects its audience. It is tense and frightening at times, superbly acted and well worth a viewing.
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