A Quiet Place.
John Krasinski is the director here. I don’t know much about him as a director or an actor really. Best known for being in the American version of The Office, this is his 2nd film behind the camera. He also co wrote and was an executive producer too.
I was hooked and ready for this movie just on the tagline “If they hear you, they hunt you” and was more then a little disappointed when my mystery horror film last month wasn’t this, but hey ho
Krasinski and Blunt (real life husband and wife) play Lee and Evelyn Abbot, a couple who, along with their son Marcus (Noah Jupe) and deaf, mute daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds) are trying to survive in this film that starts in the near future and 89 days after an event that’ll change everyone’s life forever.
In a world where sound kills, the family communicate with sign language and they’ve rearranged every part of their environment to reduce noise. Sand laid to mark the quietest routes as to avoid creaking floorboards, salad leaves make plates and monopoly pieces replaced by fuzzy felt.
This movie isn’t just good it’s seriously, seriously good. 95 minutes of nerve jangling, urgently paced cinema had me enthralled. I’ve never wanted to be more quiet in a cinema lest I got this family into more trouble. The build up of tension this film achieves is off the chart. I don’t know how many words are spoken in this movie but I think its under 250 and it’s all the better for it. The screenplay is of the highest calibre but the thing that hit me the most was the musical score. It was so gripping. Marco Beltrami is at his very best here and there was a Jaws feel to the suspenseful music which had me on a knife edge from the first bar to the last.
Tension, tension, tension and more tension is what this film drowns you in.One of the best films I’ve seen in a while and I’m so happy that this, along with Get Out, is raising the bar for horror films … and it’s about time too.
Go and see this folks, it’s proper good.
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