Movie Review : A Quiet Place (2018)

Director: John Krasinski
Starring: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

A Quite Place is a horror/triller about Abbots family who had to live in a complete silence because Earth had been invaded by aliens which had an advance hearing. After the death of their youngest son, they lived normally (in silence), until one day the aliens attacked the family because of several loud sounds that Evelyn (Emily Blunt) made when she had to give a birth.

A Quite Place will remind you, kind of, with M. Night Shamalan's Sign about how a family has survive in the middle of an alien invasion. However, the similarity ends there. A Quiet Place is a new and original horror movie that cleverly uses its most frightening aspect: SILENCE.

Its use of silence is so effective that all the audiences in my theater were completely silent as if we were afraid that the creatures would jump off the screen when we made a sound. When the actors on screen made a sound, the whole theater was tense because we were afraid that the creature would come. It is that effective. The sincere daily life of the first act after the shocking opening was enough to prepare us for what would come to the family.

The movie is almost completely silent with exception of few natural sounds like river or birds. The conversation only happens few times, the loudest conversations are in two different yet logical places. In the world where we cannot make a sound, of course, many questions appear in our head. When you finally watch the movie, you will understand how this family manages to survive. They have a system on how to do everything in a complete silence or at least in a very soft sound. All of them are logical and actually pretty smart.

The acting in this movie is very amazing. We all know that Emily Blunt and her husband, John Krisinski are great actors. Therefore, I will not praise them much and focus on the children. The children are so great, especially the deaf actress, Simmonds. I am so glad that they actually cast a deaf actress to play a deaf character. Their great acting combined with Emily's and John's make the chemistry of the family is so real that we really care about them. The aliens or monsters look great which I believe is the result of that 17 million budget. They are terrifying.

Overall, the movie is a great, original horror movie with great acting and interesting premise. It is a definitely a must-see horror movie for all moviegoers, not just horror fans. 

 I give this movie A+