“Dad!”

From A Quiet Place.

In the near future, a monster invasion has wiped out the majority of Earth’s population; any noise will cause the blind, but practically-indestructible monsters to attack/kill the source of the noise.  One family has survived by living in silence; dad Lee (John Krasinski), mom Evelyn (Emily Blunt), hearing-impaired daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds), and sons Marcus and Beau (Noah Jupe and Cade Woodward).  For the past 400 days, they have survived by walking on sand, communicating with sign language, and eating fish and vegetables from their farm.  Tragedy has rocked this family and it leaves each member of the family struggling to connect with each other in certain areas.  Each day places the family against monsters that come from the farthest distances in response to the smallest noise.  As the parents prepare for the fast-approaching birth of their fourth child with soundproof rooms and scavenged medical supplies, the Lee also tries to prepare his older children for a long life in silence.  When an accidental noise sets off a deadly chain of events, the family will have to risk everything to keep each other safe.

In a movie that has, at most, fifty lines of dialog, the entire weight of the film is placed on the shoulders of the small cast, but the cast handles it perfectly!  This is a horror movie not through blood and guts, but rather the mundane tasks of life turned deadly through a life-threatening need to be quiet.  There are a few jump scares that are frightening only because of the lack of noise, and there is a birth scene that is quite intense, but mainly there is only a steady suspense built up through a smart script.  Every sound is done with a precision that instantly captivates the audience.  The only disappointing aspect of this movie is a lack of information on where the monsters came from, but that issue is quickly forgotten with the characters’ struggle to survive.  A Quiet Place is an amazing movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat while also forcing the audience to question how far they would go to protect family.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 90 minutes |Genre: suspense/thriller/horror |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 0 of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 4 of 10

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