A Quiet Place (2018).
Director: John Krasinski.
Horror
Rating: 4/5 very good lots to enjoy
Synopsis
A species of monstrous animals suddenly and swiftly sweeps across the planet, devouring any humans in their path. Highly sensitive to sound, they home in on the noise humans make by moving and especially speaking.
Months later a family quietly tread their way across America trying to find a suitable place to settle in silence. As their daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds) is deaf, they communicate through sign language and potentially lethal whispers. Later, Mom Evelyn (Emily Blunt) becomes pregnant, Father Lee (John Krasinski) helps his son Marcus (Noah Jupe) to become more self reliant and protective and Regan struggles with feeling she isn’t loved. But, does she hold the key to beating the creatures that threaten their idyllic and peaceful new farm home?
Review, by Jason Day
With rave reviews across the board, this real-life hubby and wife (John Krasinski, Emily Blunt) horror yarn ticks most of the boxes that make you squirm in your cinema seat with terror.
Gruelling is the watchword as throughout this intense, nerve-jangling gem of a movie gives you the whole kit and caboodle of American horror movie tricks and tracks that disturb you.
Before the end of the film, you will be treated to unsettling moments that include scenes of children and old people being devoured, nails going through people's feet and monsters with scalps that open up like Terry's Chocolate Blood Oranges.
What is never for once in doubt is the consummate skill of Mr Blunt in ratcheting up the tension and utilising this movie's unique, silent-movie way of making the actors express their most inner most feelings with sign language, facial expression and deft movement of body and posture.
The easiest script to rehearse in terms of dialogue perhaps, but possibly the hardest for modern actors to succeed so successfully with otherwise.
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Cast & credits
1hr 30 mins. Platinum Dunes/Sunday Night. (15)
Producers: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller.
Writers: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski.
Camera: Charlotte Bruus Christensen.
Music: Marco Beltrami.
Sets: Jeffrey Beecroft.
Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds, Leon Russom, Cade Woodward, Doris McCarthy.
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