![]() ![]() I didn’t dream of monsters, I dreamed of Emily Blunt and I didn’t feel scared. Let’s face it we’ve seen post-apocalyptic movies before, but this one is a fresh mix of thriller and emotion. The solid script and direction hints at the Salt Water aha moment but doesn’t reveal it until the perfect time. Luckily for me, the fast-moving aliens are seen sparingly to up the stakes and produce just enough on-screen gore and horror to freak us out. Simmonds and Noah Pope are great as children coping with the constant threat of real monsters. Blunt is phenomenal as the mother who goes through hell and high water for her children. Husband and wife John Krasinski and Emily Blunt obviously didn’t have to act the characters’ love and devotion. When the POV shifts to the deaf daughter, played by actress Millicent Simmonds who is deaf, the film goes silent. No need for the eccentric professor to tell us anything. #A quiet place monster full#Dad’s workshop is full of visual clues to the story. The oxygen mask in the baby crib gave me a chill. It has a rustic, pioneer survivalist vibe with the DIY canned food pantry and code-red alarm system. The soundproofed home is inventive and unsettling right down to the cloth Monopoly pieces. Jeffrey Beecroft’s production design and the set dressing carries the story. The first minutes hooked me in as I wondered, “Why are these people creeping around barefooted, are they all deaf, and what does “Too Loud,” mean?” Until we see why without characters telling us, or radio reports in the background. It’s effective and creative in how the story is told almost entirely visually. It’s a “The Swiss Family Robinson” meets “Alien” meets “War of the Worlds” meets “The Day of the Triffids” hybrid that’s the ultimate family survival thriller. ![]() I only knew about John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, and that the monster hunts by sound. So it took me months to watch “A Quiet Place” despite the praise. I have never and will never see any of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" or "Halloween" movies. As if he would be caught dead in a working-class Detroit neighborhood, where there’s not one skyscraper in sight. Godzilla dreams where I'm trapped in my childhood home as he's stomping down the street. I’ve had vivid nightmares since I was a kid. We breakdown and explain the creatures in A Quiet Place. I mean the gory, blood and guts, slasher movies set in the secluded house, woods, slaughterhouse, warehouse, or barn. A QUIET PLACE Part 2 Monsters Explained: Alien Origins, Theories And The Detail Everyone Missed. I’m one of those people who don’t like horror movies. ![]()
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