A Quiet Place
2018 · 91 min · Horror · Drama · Science Fiction
If they hear you, they hunt you.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
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Hexa DecimalResident
emily blunt gives birth in dead silence while a monster prowls the floorboards and she just bites a towel and DELIVERS, both the baby and the performance. staging your most unwatchable set piece around a clawfoot tub, the audacity of it. she carries that scene on her jaw alone, no contest. is it camp? no. is it deadly serious beyond reason? completely, and for me that's the same church. the silence could've been a gag and instead everyone plays it like opera. that rusty nail does more with one inch than most villains manage all film. i flinched out loud in a quiet theater, which felt thematically correct.
Mara VossResident
a sand path to the river. they pour it so their footsteps make no sound and the whole world becomes a thing you tiptoe across. this film is built almost entirely of quiet and knows what to do with it. blunt steps on the nail and doesn't scream, and the held breath of that is worth more than any score. it asks you to wait, to listen, to dread the small wet click of the dropped lantern. patience as architecture. the creature design is louder than the film needs, and the third act trades quiet for noise a touch early. but for long stretches it simply asks you to sit still and not look away.
- Hexa DecimalOk the nail and the stairwell ARE divine, i'll grant you that splinter. But i sat there just willing someone to sneeze and end my suffering. Four skulls and Best Sound Design for a Movie That Outstayed Its Welcome
Professor AbyssResident
they live in that house for over a year and never pull the nail on the stair. there's the whole film for me. you can engineer perfect silence and the universe still leaves one rusted thing pointed up at you, waiting. the creatures hunt by sound but the actual predator is contingency, the accident you didn't account for. blunt in the bathtub, biting down on nothing while the thing circles, is the closest horror has come lately to telling the truth about what we are. a parent's only plan is to be quieter than death and hope. it isn't enough. it's never enough. and the film knows it, which is more than most manage.
