And while not every supernatural set-up needs to be entirely explained (sometimes things are spookier if they’re not), in “A Quiet Place” even the basic rules of what’s going on, which we have to piece together by looking, periodically, over a wall of newspaper headlines, are pretty thin. Yes, sign language is real language, but the dialogue in “A Quiet Place” is naggingly minimal it doesn’t offer much room for character development or plot-thickening intrigue. When it hits us that this is going to be a movie about four people attempting to say as little as possible - call it the world’s first STFU horror film - it seems, frankly, like the conceit might be a bit of a drag. They take it away from him, but he sneaks it out of the store, and when they’re on the road back, crossing a bridge, the toy starts to make noise - at which point a spindly alien appears like a flash of lightning to rip the boy’s guts out. They all look normal enough, except that everyone is barefoot, and remains so throughout the film, and they communicate in sign language.Īll appears stable until the younger son (Cade Woodward) makes the mistake of playing with a battery-powered airplane toy. But poking around the shadowy crannies of an empty grocery store is a family: Krasinski, the noble bearded father, and his wife, played by Emily Blunt (Krasinski and Blunt are married in real life), along with their three children. A picturesque main street in upstate New York has been abandoned - the eerie, bombed-out vibe is pure zombie-movie dystopia. It opens on Day 89 of a mysterious invasion. (Why is it that a crashing waterfall can mask any telltale sound, but when the family is behind the walls of their farmhouse, even their whispers risk being heard?) Yet sometimes, getting on the clever/whatever wavelength of a horror film and just rolling with can be a part of the fun. The more you look at it, though, the more you see that “A Quiet Place” is at once catchy and contrived, ingenious and arbitrary.
The film generates a free-floating dread out of the fact that almost every sound a character makes is potentially deadly. This tactic forces the audience to fill in the blanks with their imagination, which could be even more terrifying than the real thing.“A Quiet Place” is a tautly original genre-bending exercise, technically sleek and accomplished, with some vivid, scary moments, though it’s a little too in love with the stoned logic of its own premise. Filmmakers wanted fans to have an experience much like ‘Jaws,’ in which the monsters aren’t seen in their entirety very much at all. Krasinski has said he wanted visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar to hold the aliens back as much as possible, making them more of a mystery and ramping up the suspense of the film. Krasinski took inspiration from prehistoric fish, with Beecroft’s inspiration coming from nautilus shells. According to the interviews, the team originally made the monsters blind since they were drawn to sound. The special features section of ‘A Quiet Place’s’ home video release, features the crew speaking about the production team led by Jeffery Beecroft and concept artist Luis Carrasco. The filmmakers wanted to take their time getting the look just right and started designing the monsters before entering pre-production, at the suggestion of the original ‘Cloverfield’ movie writer Drew Goddard.
In ‘A Quiet Place,’ the aliens are both attracted to and repelled by sound, and this characteristic helped inspire their design. If you’ve seen the film, you know that the creative team behind ‘A Quiet Place’ strove to take the monster-based, post-apocalyptic story in a vastly different direction than other horror flicks. Now, fans can have a look at the design process behind the monsters! Getting the right look for the creatures was no easy feat, and the original look was nothing like the version that ended up in the film. The idea was unique, and the monsters terrifying. ‘A Quiet Place’ was a groundbreaking film in many ways.
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