A Quite Place

Haven’t we seen this already? Doesn’t this feel eerily similar to the 2017 critically acclaimed indie horror film It comes out night which had an 88 percent fresh Tomato ranking (WTF!) but was rightfully panned by the audience for it’s lack of forward story telling and uneventful action.

And like that film, A Quite place takes us to a not too distant future where a catastrophic event has taken place and the story revolves around a family living on country farm just trying to make it through the day.

Hmmm? It feels like a duck, it quack likes a duck but oh no… it’s not a duck. More like a mutated eagle bent on severing our bland expectations into the one thing every horror movie needs… fear.

Director John Krasinski’s (yeah Jim from the Office) film delivers in the case, offering up the right amount of thrills, scares, and entertainment while bridging the physiological and physical horror we all hope to see.

Something that came from above, below? We don’t know how these things came to earth but they look like a mixture of the Arachnid from Starship Troopers and the fawn from Pan’s Labyrinth, but its lethal and these predatory creatures feed on flesh and hunt by way of sound.

Quite a predicament for lead character Jon who has three young ones and a wife with a baby on the way (kids seem to be the undoing of all dystopian survival films). Like a heard protecting their young, Jon and his wife are always keeping a keen vigilance of their young while foraging for food, however in a world dramatically changed within a year some of those kin don’t understand the true necessity of phrase silence is golden.

It’s an interesting world to live in for a youth, who no matter what the age or plight of their situation want to rebel and express themselves and that side bar plays against the new commandments of this world. Above all else do not make a sound.

Yes adolescence, child birth play a role in this film, especially ramping up the action to it’s final climax but more so it’s a testament to third time feature-film director Krasinski, for creating this world for the audience to join in without any dialogue to speak of and as the audience were fine with it.

Every step, every breath, burp or fart could literally be your last and ironically more than anything each person wants to just scream at the top of the lungs to let out all that emotion, sadness and pent up frustration. They’re not only fighting their surroundings but themselves and when they do give in, yell out to the world, you can see the cathartic release on their faces and brief moment of peace before that inevitable doom comes hurling it’s way through the woods.

In a dystopian sci-fi twist void of deadly disease or zombies running a muck, A Quite Place is a nice change of pace. Silent but deadly.

Better than Annihilation and far better than It comes at night. Just a few hairs behind Edge of Tomorrow.