History Film / AQuietPlace

[[caption-width-right:320:''[[{{Tagline}} If they hear you, they hunt you.]]'']]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Tagline}} If they hear you, they hunt you.]]'']]

A sequel, ''Film/AQuietPlacePartII'', was released on May 28, 2021. In November 2020, [[https://deadline.com/2020/11/a-quite-place-new-film-jeff-nichols-write-direct-john-krasinski-idea-paramount-pictures-2022-release-1234611623/ it was reported]] that a SpinOff of the original was also in development. Titled ''Film/AQuietPlaceDayOne'' and starring Creator/LupitaNyongo and Creator/JosephQuinn, the film is slated for release on March 4, 2024. A proper third installment, ''A Quiet Place Part III'', is scheduled for release in 2025.

A sequel, ''Film/AQuietPlacePartII'', was released on May 28, 2021. In November 2020, [[https://deadline.com/2020/11/a-quite-place-new-film-jeff-nichols-write-direct-john-krasinski-idea-paramount-pictures-2022-release-1234611623/ it was reported]] that a SpinOff of the original was also in development. Titled ''A Quiet Place: Day One'' and starring Creator/LupitaNyongo and Creator/JosephQuinn, the film is slated for release on March 4, 2024. A proper third installment, ''A Quiet Place Part III'', is scheduled for release in 2025.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Pun aside, if that nail hadn't been sticking out of that stair, Evelyn wouldn't have dropped the picture frame. And the picture frame wouldn't have been shattered. And the noise of the shattering wouldn't have drawn the monsters to their house.

* ForWantOfANail: Pun aside, if that nail hadn't been sticking out of that stair, Evelyn wouldn't have dropped the picture frame. And the picture frame wouldn't have been shattered. And the noise of the shattering wouldn't have drawn the monsters to their house.

** Lee brings Marcus to the waterfall where the falling and crashing sounds of the water drown out their voices so they can talk without the creatures hearing them. [[spoiler:Later Evelyn, holding a crying baby, hides behind an overflow of water gushing down from the floor above.]]
** When the fireworks are set off to draw the creatures away from the house, Evelyn takes the opportunity to [[ScreamingBirth scream her head off.]]

** The horror in the parents' eyes when the son's toy shuttle suddenly sounds. It's an interesting situation as the audience doesn't know yet why this event would cause them to react this way. Even before this, there's their horrified reaction when their son first walks up holding the toy, and the father gingerly removes the batteries like he was defusing a bomb.
** The family panics when the lantern is knocked over during a game of TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}, leading the father to put it out with a blanket.

* QuicksandSucks: [[spoiler:During the climax, first Marcus and then Regan is buried in grain stored within the silo, with each of them pulling out the other JustInTime.]][[note]]In real life this would be close to impossible.[[/note]]

* RRatedOpening: A little boy is killed onscreen within the first ten minutes.

* ShownTheirWork: The depiction of sign language--specifically, ASL--was heavily researched. They cast a deaf actress to play Regan for the express reason that she could help tutor the cast so they feel fluent. Individual characters also have their own "accent," Lee signs in a stern manner, Evelyn is elegant, Marcus is laconic, and Regan is sassy.
* SilenceIsGolden: There are only a handful of actual dialogue scenes, a scene of diegetic music (via earbuds) and very little actual movie scoring. This makes you intimately aware of EVERY bit of sound that is in the film. Midway through the father teaches his son about how it is safe to quietly talk next to a running river and feel free to scream next to a waterfall since the existing background noise will overpower it.

A sequel, ''Film/AQuietPlacePartII'', was released on May 28, 2021. In November 2020, [[https://deadline.com/2020/11/a-quite-place-new-film-jeff-nichols-write-direct-john-krasinski-idea-paramount-pictures-2022-release-1234611623/ it was reported]] that a spinoff of the original was also in development. Titled ''A Quiet Place: Day One'' and starring Creator/LupitaNyongo and Creator/JosephQuinn, the film is slated for release on March 4, 2024. A proper third installment, ''A Quiet Place Part III'', is scheduled for release in 2025.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: The aliens are shown to have AbsurdlySharpClaws that can claw through a metal silo-like tissue, but when the kids hide in the truck, the monster is not able to get in, even though the truck would have thinner metal than the silo. You could possibly handwave it with the silo carving happening after being driven mad by the hearing aid's frequency - meaning it was a DesperationAttack.

* DaylightHorror: Because the monsters hunt based on sound, not sight, danger can come at any time of day. [[spoiler:The family's youngest son dies when he activates a space shuttle toy and is mauled within seconds, and an old man [[DrivenToSuicide screams in despair]] to kill himself during the day after his wife had been killed only minutes before.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Established early on in the film [[spoiler:with Beau's death]]. Lee and his son later encounter an old man next to the corpse of his recently deceased wife, who was killed by one of the beasts, when he suicidally yells out. Lee also pulls a HeroicSacrifice in the film's climax, and the rest of the family's fate is left ambiguous.]]

''A Quiet Place'' is a 2018 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Creator/JohnKrasinski and written by him alongside Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, who conceived the story. The film stars Krasinski and his RealLife wife Creator/EmilyBlunt, along with child actors Creator/NoahJupe and Creator/MillicentSimmonds. Reported influences on the film included ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'', ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/TrueGrit''.

''A Quiet Place'' is a 2018 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Creator/JohnKrasinski and written by him alongside Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, who conceived the story. The film stars Krasinski and his RealLife wife Creator/EmilyBlunt, along with child actors Creator/NoahJupe and Creator/MillicentSimmonds. Reported influences on the film include ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'', ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/TrueGrit''.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Evelyn ends up unwittingly stepping straight through an exposed nail on the basement stairs as she rushes down them. She can't stop a brief gasp of pain but tries to contain any more noises because the creatures are nearby, up to and including having to ''slowly'' pull her foot off the nail.

* AnyoneCanDie: Established early on in the film, [[spoiler:with Beau's death. Lee and his son later encounter an old man next to the corpse of his recently deceased wife, who was killed by one of the beasts, when he suicidally yells out. Lee also pulls a HeroicSacrifice in the film's climax, and the rest of the family's fate is left ambiguous.]]

* BringIt: The last shot of the movie has [[spoiler:Evelyn [[DramaticGunCock reloading the shotgun confidently]], as she now knows how to exploit the weaknesses of the monsters]].

[[caption-width-right:300:''[[{{Tagline}} Silence is survival.]]'']]

''A Quiet Place'' is a 2018 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Creator/JohnKrasinski and written by him alongside Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, who conceived the story. The film stars Krasinski and his RealLife wife Creator/EmilyBlunt, along with child actors Creator/NoahJupe and Creator/MillicentSimmonds. Reported influences on the film include ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'', ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'', ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/TrueGrit''.

%%* NoEnding: [[spoiler:The family learns the monsters' weakness and kills one of them, but two more are on the way. The mother and daughter prepare for them. Cut to black.]]

** In the teaser, the family panics when the lantern is knocked over during a game of TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}, leading the father to put it out with a blanket.
** The horror in the parents' eyes when the son's toy shuttle suddenly sounds. It's an interesting situation as the audience doesn't know yet why this event would cause them to react this way.

* WeNeedADistraction: The fireworks that draw the monsters away from the homestead.

* CacophonyCoverUp: Lee brings Marcus to the waterfall where the falling and crashing sounds of the water drown out their voices so they can talk without the creatures hearing them. It serves as a ChekhovsGun for when Evelyn, holding a crying baby, hides behind an overflow of water gushing down from the floor above.

** The downed traffic light in the opening shot foreshadows the creatures' apparent aversion to the red lights in the Abbotts' cornfield.

* CacophonyCoverUp: Lee brings Beau to the waterfall where the falling and crashing sounds of the water drown out their voices so they can talk without the creatures hearing them.

* BornAfterTheEnd: PlayedForDrama. Evelyn is heavily pregnant (which is implied to be unplanned) and goes into labor while she's alone in the house (Lee and Marcus go out to do their usual business and Regan walks out of the house a bit after). Evenlyn is forced to stay quiet despite her labor pains when one of the aliens that hunts by sound and nearly killed humanity enters the house.

* BornAfterTheEnd: PlayedForDrama. Evelyn is heavily pregnant (which is implied to be unplanned). She goes into labor while she's alone in the house (Lee and Marcus go out to do their usual business and Regan walks out of the house a bit after). Evenlyn is forced to stay quiet despite her labor pains when one of the aliens that hunts by sound and nearly killed humanity enters the bathroom where she is hiding.

* BornAfterTheEnd: PlayedForDrama. Evelyn is heavily pregnant (which is implied to be unplanned). The monsters that nearly killed humanity hunt by sound and Evelyn goes into labor while she's alone in the house (Lee and Marcus go out to do their usual business and Regan walks out of the house a bit after). She is forced to stay quiet despite her labor pains when one of the aliens enters the bathroom where she is hiding.