Taut, edge of your seat thriller

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2018)

A Quiet Place holds true to the title, and for the most part is almost totally silent and it works a charm. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where most of humanity is wiped out, a surviving family gets by living a quiet existence in order to avoid the blind monsters that hunt using sound. The movie cleverly portrays their lifestyle, as they have learned to adapt in a number of clever ways, most prominently sign langue, which adds to the story as their daughter is deaf giving us a key reason they're still alive. The use of silence in this movie allows us to grow so accustom to not hearing a sound that when we finally hear one, we share in their unease and the jump scares are amplified tenfold, not just a cheap trick added to the mix. The acting in this movie is next to none, and with such little vocal communication this movie has no problem communicating everything we want to know about our main characters and the world we live in. This is probably the most intelligent horror I've watched to date, and definitely up there with the most tense. Don't miss this.